IT NEWS
Free Phones, Buses, Web Assistance for Katrina Victims
Cell phone and other high-tech communications companies
are engaged in an effort to bolster communications among
those displaced by Katrina. Turns out that if you want to
use FEMA's online aid request form, though, you'd better
not be a Apple user. (USA Today)
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Outside of the 'Mainstream' But Helping Out in the Gulf
More about what people are doing to try to restore
networking to the New Orleans area: "the ad-hoc culture
of open-source wireless, mesh networking and free mumicipal
Wi-Fi" is playing its part.
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Despite Overseas Outsourcing, Community Colleges
See Help-Desk Support as a Growing Career
So many community colleges, like Northern Essex Community
College, in Massachusets find the need to create or grow
pre-existing training programs.
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Supremes Don't Scare Music File Swappers
Despite high-profile court cases, including the recent
US Supreme Court ruling, on any given day as many as 9.6M
people are logged into file-sharing programs, up from 6.8M
last year. (USA Today)
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