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U. Makes Effort To Raise Level of Available Technology On Campus
Two hundred out of 300 general-purpose classrooms at the University of
Minnesota have received a basic technology upgrade, at a coast of $4.2M
out of a $7M budget plan that is two years behind schedule but still
making faculty and students happy.
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Michael Dell Says American Higher Education Is Not Doing The Job
In Dell's opinion, companies like his can move quicker and adapt faster.
Institutions, like Southern Methodist University, where he spoke, are
working hard to train future workforces, but they're too little, too late.
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Open Source Risk Management Grabs Attention for Linux Insurance
It's an idea, but it's also a business, for Daniel Egger, entrepreneur
in residence at Duke University. The idea is to offer a certificate that
a given version of open source software is free of copyright violations,
thus letting the user of the software more easily obtain insurance.
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UNC's Carolina Wireless Initiative
It's not required of students, but UNC is now in the cell phone
business, having inked a deal with Cingular. For students, the bonus is
in the extra goodies: For students, the real bargain is in the extras
the plan would provide, Oberlin said. Internet connectivity will be
included in all calling plans, as will free text messaging.
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ITaP Nears Completion of Campuswide Upgrade At Purdue University
Purdue's largest single campuswide network upgrade since it got a
network in the first place is nearly done.
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Tiffin University Survives A Few Days With No Internet
"It's like you've lost your life because everything is tied to that
little machine," said one university staffer among those at the library,
in alumni relations, and the bookstore who either were stopped dead in
the water or really slowed down due to a planned move by the
university's IT department into a new building.
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Cal-(IT)2 Is Getting A Couple Of New Directors
The new directors, professors William Hodgkiss and Leslie Lenert, will
oversee research in homeland security and medical informatics.
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LambdaRail Fiber-Optic Network Gains Six New Members, Enough to Go National
An innovative project to create high-speed linkages between universities
and colleges has enough members not to be considered national in scope,
not just regional.
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Tech Firms Putting Quality At Top Of List
Security, reliability, longer battery power, stability - all these
things are getting a little more focus from IT manufacturers now, with a
little less emphasis on power and speed.
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Start Marking Your Oracle-DOJ Score Card
Things are starting to heat up, and at the very beginning of the first quarter
of this football game-like fight, the Department of Justice scores. But Oracle,
in its attempt to take over PeopleSoft, isn't out of the game yet. The trial
started Monday and is expected to last four weeks, then the appeal begins.
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Smoke, Mirrors and Silence: The Browser Wars Reignite
The browser wars we saw before weren't the "wars to end all wars," and
this author believes that the current, new browser wars are just the
surface of a larger, World Wide War to control the future of the Web itself.
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