IT Trends :: Thursday, March 30, 2006

IT News

Spitzer G'es After Spammer Harvesters

Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is calling the situation "the biggest deliberate breach of Internet privacy ever." He's after Datran Media, which has already paid $1.1M in an earlier settlement…(CNN.com)

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Online Classes: Bane or Boon?

The University of Central Florida finds a balance between campus and online classes by offering mixed-mode courses that take place in both places. This benefits nontraditional students who may have full-time jobs or families to support, and it's also benefiting school funds. (Daytona Beach News-Journal)

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Students Plan to Toss Council Votes After Glitch

Student government folks in Madison are pretty ticked off: "It's a mess-up and I understand. But it's hard to get students to vote once and now it'll be even harder."...(Wisconsin State Journal)

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Apples and, Well, Apples

The Beatles’ Apple Corp. and Apple Computer agreed some time ago on equitable use of an apple logo. Now Apple Corp. says that iTunes breaches a boundary – since it IS music, after all – and wants Apple Computer to stop...(CNN.com)

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Law Professor Bans Laptops in Class Over Student Protest

A University of Memphis law professor has forbidden laptops during lectures, concerned that students are "focusing on trying to transcribe every word that [he] was saying, rather than thinking and analyzing." Students petitioned against the ban, but both the American Bar Association and university officials are siding with the professor. (USA Today)

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Online Classes: Bane or Boon?

The University of Central Florida finds a balance between campus and online classes by offering mixed-mode courses that take place in both places. This benefits nontraditional students who may have full-time jobs or families to support, and it's also benefiting school funds. (Daytona Beach News-Journal)

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IT Spending to Increase 6.3% in 2006, IDC Says

The IDC believes the largest purchases will probably include equipment, outsourcing, and software. Global IT spending totaled about $1 trillion in 2005, and should grow by about $100 billion in 2006. By 2009, IDC predicts IT spending to increase about 5%. (NetworkWorld)

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Apple is 30 Years Old on April Fools' Day

They’ve gone from a garage to a sprawling campus in three decades. Apple's award-winning designs for its iPods and curvy computers, of course, don't even resemble the wood-box prototype Apple I that got it all started. That said, at age 30, Apple faces some unique problems that aren't easy to solve. (Tech News World)

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    Student Voices: Technology as a Future Learning Partner

    A data analytics and marketing major at Bentley University and a distinguished lecturer at the university explore the future of "technology learning partners" — technologies that participate in the learning process by asking questions and giving feedback, not just information search results.

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    Meta Steps Up Enterprise AI Ambitions with Muse Spark Launch

    Meta has announced the launch of Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal reasoning model designed for agentic AI, alongside a new Meta Model API that gives developers access to the model for the first time.

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    AI Budgets in Education Show No Sign of Decline

    The vast majority of education organizations (98%) expect their AI infrastructure budgets to either increase or hold steady over the next year, according to a recent report from cloud storage provider Wasabi.

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    Internet2: Closing the Access Gap for Research Cyberinfrastructure

    Internet2's Research Engagement Team brings CIOs and other campus technology leadership together with research computing and data facilitators, forming a community that enables research cyberinfrastructure at institutions of all types and sizes.