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Arizona High School Trades Textbooks For Laptops - 08/19/05

Arizona High School Trades Textbooks For Laptops - 08/19/05

John Miller / Associated Press

Teacher Becky Ogle, standing, holds her laptop computer as she explains how to use an Excel spreadsheet to a freshman class at Empire High School in Vail, Ariz.. Empire High School issued Apple laptop computers to every student instead of traditional textbooks, becoming among the first public schools nationally to make the electronic leap.

By Arthur H. Rotstein / Associated Press

VAIL, Ariz. — Students at Empire High School here started class this year with no textbooks — but it wasn’t because of a funding crisis.

Instead, the school issued iBooks — laptop computers by Apple Computer Inc. — to each of its 340 students, becoming one of the first U.S. public schools to shun printed textbooks.

19 August, 2005 | No comments

Offshore use on the rise but savings lag

Offshore use on the rise but savings lag

At the same time, more than 50% of the offshore engagements Hatch reviewed had no savings or costs increased. A key reason for offshore failures, according to the report, lies with the client.

“The ultimate success or failure of any offshore strategy hinges on the performance of the implementing executive,” Hatch says.

Outsourcing has been a topic we have looked at from time-to-time at DS. There are good things about it and not so good. One of the biggest “goods” cited by many is the cost savings. But apparently the savings have not been as good as they had imagined.

21 July, 2005 | No comments

Chicago Tribune News : Technology - Time To Explode The Internet?

Chicago Tribune News : Technology - Time To Explode The Internet?

In came the hackers, the viruses, worms, spyware, phishing, and spam; the purveyors of pharmaceuticals and porn sites; and Nairobi bank presidents and generals promising to wire millions of dollars into your bank if you’d kindly give them your account number.

According to a Washington Post report last weekend, Carnegie Mellon University CERT Coordination Center logged 3,780 new computer security vulnerabilities in 2004. In 2000 the center logged 1,090. In 1995, it was just 171.

“The Internet is stuck in the flower-power days of the `60s during which people thought the world would be beautiful if you are just nice,” computer scientist Karl Auerbach told the Post. Formerly with Cisco Systems Inc., Auerbach now volunteers with engineering groups to try to improve the Internet. Auerbach is part of a handful of groups now looking into whether the entire Internet needs an overhaul, or, in Web-speak, a Version 2.0.

4 July, 2005 | No comments

HoustonChronicle.Com - Internet Shift Leads To Concern

HoustonChronicle.Com - Internet Shift Leads To Concern

U.S. decision on control might split the network

By MATT MOORE
Associated Press

FRANKFURT, GERMANY - A unilateral decision by the United States to indefinitely retain oversight of the Internet’s main traffic-directing computers prompted concerns Friday that the global telecommunications network could eventually splinter.

“This seems like an extension of American security in the aftermath of 9/11,” said John Strand, a Denmark-based technology consultant. “People will ask: ‘Do the Americans want to control the Internet?’ “

3 July, 2005 | No comments

U.S. To Retain Oversight of Web Traffic

U.S. To Retain Oversight of Web Traffic

By MATT MOORE, AP Business Writer

FRANKFURT, Germany — A unilateral decision by the United States to indefinitely retain oversight of the Internet’s main traffic-directing computers prompted concerns Friday that the global telecommunications network could eventually splinter.

“This seems like an extension of American security in the aftermath of 9-11,” said John Strand, a Denmark-based technology consultant. “People will ask: `Do the Americans want to control the Internet?’”

2 July, 2005 | No comments

The Seattle Times: Personal Technology: Logging On At The Local Library

The Seattle Times: Personal Technology: Logging On At The Local Library

By Charles Bermant, Special To The Seattle Times

So what was this? Some kind of conspiracy?

After last week’s column, the tale of a pair of Swiss visitors who complained about a lack of Internet cafes in the U.S., I received a maelstrom of mail taking me to task because I didn’t present the American public library system as an alternative to the ubiquitous European outposts.

OK, the maelstrom was only three letters. And one of them was from Texas. But the library question is a good one, and there are several reasons as to why they just don’t fit the bill.

25 June, 2005 | No comments

SignOnSanDiego.Com > News > Technology — Who Wants To Buy Windows Without Its Media Player?

SignOnSanDiego.Com > News > Technology — Who Wants To Buy Windows Without Its Media Player?

Associated Press technology writer Sophie Nicholson offers a different perspective on the looming unveiling of the Microsoft XP N operating system.

Originally, I had posted generic information via DigitalStakeholders pertaining to Microsoft’s new Windows XP N operating system. Now, I am interested in sharing insights from the perspective of Microsoft XP N opponents.

By Sophie Nicholson
ASSOCIATED PRESS

PARIS – In Microsoft’s new operating system – Windows XP N – the “N” stands for “Not with Media Player.” But it might as well stand for “No Thanks.”

23 June, 2005 | No comments

Microsoft Pushes Anti-Spam Technology

Microsoft Pushes Anti-Spam Technology

From Associated Press

Microsoft Corp. is stepping up the pressure on e-mail senders to adopt its Sender ID spam-fighting technology despite problems that could send as many as 10% of legitimate messages to junk folders.

By the end of the year, Microsoft’s Hotmail and MSN services will get more aggressive at rejecting mail sent through companies or service providers that do not register their domain names with the Sender ID system.

Sender ID seeks to cut down on junk e-mail by making it difficult for spammers to forge e-mail headers and addresses.

The system calls for Internet service providers, companies and other domain name holders to submit lists of their mail servers’ unique numeric addresses.

23 June, 2005 | No comments

Motorola Launches FOMA M1000 Smartphone With Integrated 3G And Wireless LAN

Motorola Launches FOMA M1000 Smartphone With Integrated 3G And Wireless LAN

Motorola Inc has launched the FOMA M1000, a Symbian UIQ based smartphone with WLAN (IEEE 802.11b Wireless LAN), WCDMA (3G UMTS)and GSM/GPRS. The new mobile device was developed jointly by Motorola and NTT DoCoMo.

22 June, 2005 | No comments

Microsoft Continues Movement To Crush Unix Linux

Microsoft Continues Movement To Crush Unix Linux

John Stith | Staff Writer | jstith@ientry.com
2005-06-22

Microsoft announced yesterday they completed the acquisition of Sybari. In their statement, at the very bottom, Microsoft said they would discontinue Antigen sales for Unix/Linux products. There were a number of other aspects to the press release but that little sentence had the most impact.

22 June, 2005 | No comments

HoustonChronicle.Com - Who Wants Windows Without Media Player?

HoustonChronicle.Com - Who Wants Windows Without Media Player?

Associated Press

PARIS — In Microsoft’s new operating system — Windows XP N — the “N” stands for “Not with Media Player.” But it might as well stand for “No Thanks.”

22 June, 2005 | No comments

GeekInformed.Com | - Livermore’s IBM BlueGene Ranked The World’s Fastest Supercomputer

GeekInformed.Com | - Livermore’s IBM BlueGene Ranked The World’s Fastest Supercomputer

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s IBM’s BlueGene/L System is now officially the fastest computer on the planet.

The announcement of the updated Top 500 list is expected to be released today at the International Supercomputer Conference in Heidelberg, Germany.

IBM and the U.S. Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration recently doubled the capacity of their supercomputer to become the “World’s Most Powerful Computer.”

22 June, 2005 | No comments

Burnsville Firm Looks To Capitalize On School Website Names

Burnsville Firm Looks To Capitalize On School Website Names

Steve Alexander, Star Tribune
June 22, 2005 POMIJE0622

A Burnsville investment company plans to commercialize the websites of the nation’s high schools and universities using 23,000 sound-alike website names it has acquired.

BDC Partners said it wants schools to help it create advertising-supported websites with sound-alike but easy-to-remember names such as edinahornets.com (real website is www.edina.k12.mn.us/edina high/), edenprairieeagles.com (real website is www.edenpr .k12.mn.us/ephs/) or universityofminnesotagolden gophers.com (real websites include www.gophersports.com and www.umn.edu).

Source - The Minneapolis Star Tribune (http://www.startribune.com)

22 June, 2005 | No comments

Ubiquitous Technology, Bad Practices Drive Up Data Theft

Ubiquitous Technology, Bad Practices Drive Up Data Theft

By Jonathan Krim
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 22, 2005; Page D01

Call 2005 the year of the data breach.

One day, tapes with the Social Security numbers of 1.2 million federal workers are reported missing. Another day it’s hackers gaining access to private information on 120,000 alumni at Boston College. Then, last Friday, comes word that 40 million credit card numbers fell prey to computer criminals.

Collectively, nearly 50 million accounts have been exposed to the possibility of identity fraud since the beginning of the year, a significant increase from last year.

22 June, 2005 | No comments

Technology News Article | Reuters.Com

Technology News Article | Reuters.Com

Cisco Networks To Work Closer With Applications

By Duncan Martell

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc.(CSCO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday launched technology to make computer networks smarter, faster and more secure by making the equipment that directs data link better with the software applications that use it.

Called Application Oriented Networking, or AON, the new technology also lets networks speak the language of software applications that run on top of them.

21 June, 2005 | No comments

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