IT NEWS
Study: Blog Creation, Readership Jumped in 2004
Readership jumped from 17 percent of US adults to 27 percent; authorship only
grew from 5 percent to 7 percent. And only about 5 percent of Americans use
RSS readers. (USA Today)
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Defining Google
"What began as a school project is now worth about as much as Ford and General
Motors combined, thanks to a stock that has roughly doubled in price since
the company went public last August." (cbsnews.com)
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PSU Drops Old Way of Identifying Students
Penn State has dropped the use of social security numbers as student
identifiers. Some returning students were miffed that they had to get new
photos taken for their ID cards. (PennLive.com)
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College Recruiters Lure Students with New Online Tool
Video clips, blogs, interrupted chats . . . frustrated with potential students'
lack of response to e-mails, recruiters are pushing their use of Internet technologies
to recruit. (New York Times)
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Students Uncover Dozens of UNIX Software Flaws
Students at the University of Illinois at Chicago, working with professor Daniel
Bernstein, claim to have discovered 44 different security flaws in UNIX applications.
(CNET News.com)
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The Shadow Internet
"The upper reaches of the network are a "darknet," hidden behind layers of
security. The sites use a "bounce" to hide their IP address, and members can
log in only from trusted IP addresses already on file. Most transmissions between
sites use heavy-duty encryption. Finally, they continually change the usernames
and passwords required to log in. Estimates say this media darknet distributes
more than half a million movies every day. It's also, by any reading of the
law, a vast criminal enterprise engaged in wholesale copyright infringement."
(Wired.com)
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Do Cell Phones Damage Your Brain?
All research aside (after having been discussed), if there really is a problem
with cell phones damaging your brain, you'd think neurosurgeons would not be
using them. (USA Today)
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Penn State Adds Secure Wireless to 15 Buildings
The installation in December now covers the bulk of the College of Engineering,
with the rest of the work to be completed during the spring. (Penn State Live)
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Name Change to ANGEL Learning
CyberLearning Labs Inc., developer of ANGEL/LMS has announced that it has
changed its company name to ANGEL Learning, effective immediately.
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