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Colgate University Students Connect Anywhere, Anytime on Campus or Around Town

Colgate, one of the leading liberal arts colleges in the country wanted to provide students and faculty with wireless access for a range of mobile devices both on and off campus and reliable solution in harsh, cold environments. As a solution the outdoor wireless network was constructed using Tropos MetroMesh...

Tags: Colgate University, Tropos Networks, Wi-Fi, Wireless

Case studies 2008-07-01

Colgate installs Tropos mesh network but units aren't meshing

Colgate University in New York state is broadening its Wi-Fi horizons by launching a campus-wide outdoor network using Tropos Networks MetroMesh equipment— but none of the units are meshing, reports Wi-Fi Planet The university decided that it needed to expand its reach after a student survey found that...

Tags: Tropos Networks, Colgate University, Education Technology, Higher Ed

Blog posts 2007-01-04

Supporting E-Learning at Colgate University

Colgate University is an independent, liberal arts, baccalaureate-class institution with 2,800 undergraduate students and more than 250 faculty members. Colgate's remote location, institutional vision, and strong sense of community all spurred the development of its robust technical infrastructure. Located in Hamilton, New York, an hour's drive from any major airport,...

Tags: Colgate University, E-learning, Business Services, Cable, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Management

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Towards low-cost LED lighting

You all know that incandescent bulbs are pretty inefficient, converting only 10% of electricity into light -- and 90% into heat. Light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, could soon replace incandescent and compact fluorescent bulbs in our homes. They are more efficient and environmentally friendly. But LED lights are currently too expensive...

Tags: Purdue University, Silicon, LED Lighting, Light-emitting Diode, Silicon Substrate, Engineering, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-20

Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictions

Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictionsProxies"By using a proxy, you can bypass any filtering software on the network"Only if they're incompetent. I work for a company that has hardware that a proxy wouldn't get around the rules, even if it's SSL.Your statement about proxies is wrong.If the university simply sets a...

Tags: INTERNET, Workforce management, Untrustworthy student, Untrustworthy

Discussion threads 2008-07-18

Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja

Update: It would seem that Richard Stiennon agrees with me on the concept of a group of experts to advise, also on keeping away from spending ridiculous amounts of money. Cyber-terrorism... ah, what a fancy buzz word that is. Defined on Wikipedia as: "The premeditated use...

Tags: John McCain, Cybersecurity, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictions

You know the drill. You spend thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars on higher education at your college or university of choice. But when you go to use your Internet connection or a public computer on campus, you login and it's locked down so tight, you can barely...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Network, IT Administrator, Operating System, Web Site, Computer, Productivity, Web Site Development, Networking, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-18

Romanian authorities arrest cybercrime suspects

Well, eight days, and a joint effort to help prevent phishing and two major arrests related to identity theft, and I feel like we've made a decent attack on the identity theft culture. Score one for the good guys for once. Just a day after reading...

Tags: Arrest, eBay Inc., Romania, Romanian, Phishing, Identity Theft, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-17

Open source college revolution?

Open source college revolution?Blackboard NG "Next Generation"Keynote speaker Blackboard CEO Michael Chasen demonstrated the power and direction of Blackboad NG at today's afternoon session of Blackboard World '08 in Las Vegas.TRULY a Next Generation product that makes any institution's 'learning' go everywhere.+ It will now wrap Moodle & Satai.+ Courses...

Tags: Angel Learning, Moodle & Satai, open source

Discussion threads 2008-07-17

Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter

Owen Thor Walker, a 18 years old ringleader of an international cybercrime group, known as AKILL, part of the A-Team, a group of 8 script kiddies which were all caught in a operation called "Operation Bot Roast II" bust executed by the FBI and several international law enforcement agencies in...

Tags: Job, Malware, Bot, Malware Bot, PRIVMSG, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Adeona offers independent stolen laptop tracking

Sorry: hit "post" instead of "save"; this backend system will be the death of me. I first came across Adeona last year when I was doing some external research, and it's only really just come to light. Adeona is an independent system which doesn't rely on any...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Device, Laptop Computer, Adeona, Apple Mac OS X, Biometrics, Linux, Desktops, Notebooks, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-16

European telcos squeal: should we care?

One of the ongoing discussions among the Irregulars centers around telecommunications costs. Many of us travel internationally and bemoan the astronomical sic charges we're forced to pay by telecoms operators. Earlier today, I saw a statement from the GSMA, a global trade group  for the industry arguing...

Tags: Mobile, Industry, Telephony, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telecom & Utilities, Regulations, Telecommunications, Networking, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Government, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Welcome Sam Diaz

I'm pleased to announce that ZDNet has added another contributor to Between the Lines. Sam Diaz is our new senior editor based in San Francisco. Sam has been a technology and business blogger, reporter and editor at the Washington Post, San Jose Mercury News and Fresno Bee...

Tags: San Francisco, Sam Diaz, Sam, Corporate Governance, Blogging, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Internet, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Magic mushrooms to treat cancer anxiety?

Magic mushrooms to treat cancer anxiety?It's probably rightIf the rain gushing down the street is red, green and blue, the bear on your shoulder is feeding you grapes and celestial power pours into your body well south of the northern lights, who the fcuk is worried about their cancer anymore?RE:...

Tags: Magic Mushrooms, cancer anxiety

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Top education search terms in May 2008

Rank Search Term Volume 1. Wikipedia 0.44% 2. dictionary 0.34% 3. fafsa 0.15% 4. dictionary.com 0.11% 5. funbrain 0.08% 6. yahoo answers 0.08% 7. translator 0.05% 8. university of phoenix 0.05% 9....

Tags: Education, Hitwise, Yahoo, Wiki, Online Communications, NB

Blog posts 2008-07-12

Accessing Internet at 640 Gb/s?

University of Sydney physicists have developed an optical chip that could potentially improve 'Internet speeds to up to 100 times faster than current Australia's networks.' According to the Sydney Morning Herald, these chalcogenide glass photonic chips will be very cheap to produce as they're based on plain glass. As said...

Tags: Glass, Network, Signal Processing, Chip, CUDOS, Internet, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-07-12

Moving house: diary of a dial-up user (part 2)

As you know from my previous post, it has been an absolute battle to try and get broadband connectivity to my new house in Canterbury. All the other seemingly complicated "hardware based" products like electricity, gas and water supplies have been easy to set up and continue flowing. So why...

Tags: Broadband, Broadband Internet, Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-11

Apple releases patches for dangerous QuickTime flaws in Apple TV 2.1 product

Apple released patches for its Apple TV 2.1 product yesterday. Some of you might be saying, why do I care, I don't use Apple TV. Well, if you do use Apple TV, you obviously should care as some of these are very serious flaws, but if you don't,...

Tags: Apple QuickTime, Movie, Patch Management, Apple Inc., Issue, Apple TV, Arbitrary Code Execution, Flaw, IMPACT, CVE-ID, Application Termination, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-11

News to know: iPhone 3G launch; Vista; Botnets; Dial-up diaries

Notable headlines: The iPhone 3G rollout: Assessing the wild cards Steve O'Hear: Gallery: 25+ social networking apps for iPhone and iPod touch. Gallery right. Analyst: Most iPhone 3G buyers will pay more than $199 GigaOm: I Can't...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Microsoft Windows Vista, 3G, Podcasts, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-11

Moving house: diary of a dial-up user (part 1)

Here at ZDNet, we all get on most of the time and I'm lucky to be working with some absolutely lovely people. Behind the scenes, we have a discussion group, and I've been bitching about my lack of Internet the last week or so. My editor-in-chief, Larry, asked me a...

Tags: House, Phone, Broadband, Phone Line, British Telecommunications, Cable, Tiscali, Telecom & Utilities, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-07-10