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- Never mind...just tell their students if they're naughty
- As the Senate continued adding, revising, and removing amendments from the Higher Education Act on Wednesday, outcry from universities, lobbyists, and private citizens caused Harry Reid to withdraw his amendment on college file sharing. The original amendment, was sweeping, vague, and fairly clueless about it's implications. While work...
- Tags: Piracy, Legal Issues, Higher Ed, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- Bill would free colleges to buy anti-piracy software
- Attacking the issue of illegal downloading on all fronts, one Congressman is proposing legislation to give grants to schools to install anti-piracy programs, reports Internet News. Rep. Ric Keller of Florida introduced legislation recently which would allow schools to apply for federal grants to help purchase anti-piracy systems. The...
- Tags: Legal Issues, Higher Ed, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Copyright infringement by your students is your problem
- I was not the least bit surprised last week when I read RIAA cracks down on downloading at 25 colleges. After all, institutions are routinely notified whenever resources residing in their domain are associated with disruptive activity outside of that domain. For that reason, we take substantive measures...
- Tags: Standards, Legal Issues, Social networking, Higher Ed, Policy, IT Management, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- Legal download service Ruckus expands to all colleges
- Ruckus Network, a free and legal online music resource, has expanded service to include all U.S. colleges, not just subscribers, reports eSchool News. The service, currently used by over 100,000 students, used to be only available through universities that had an agreement with the company. Now, any student that...
- Tags: Education Technology, Higher Ed, Legal Issues, Ruckus
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
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- 21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XP
- Last October, roughly one year after the release to manufacturing of Windows Vista, I did a comparison of how well Windows Vista was living up to its promise of being more secure than its predecessor, Windows XP. My data source was the Microsoft Security Bulletin Search page, where I tallied...
- Tags: Security, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- What paper trail?
- I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....
- Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Talent development
- Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...
- Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Jennifer Leggio unpacks demand letter over "branded community"
- Over at ZDNet's Feeds, Jennifer Leggio walks us through a cease and desist email she recently received. The email suggested her blog's use of the term "branded community" might constitute trademark infringement. It's a good object lesson about paying attention to cease and...
- Tags: Community, Letter, E-mail, Blogging, Online Communications, Internet, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T
- Hasbro said it has filed suit in the Southern District of New York against Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, and RJ Softwares, better known as the creators of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous. It was only a matter of time before the Scrabble-Scrabulous feud came to a head, and that...
- Tags: Facebook, Hasbro Inc., Games, Intellectual Property, Personal Technology, Research & Development, Business Operations, lawsuit, Scrabulous, Hasbro, Tom Magrino, GameSpot
- News items 2008-07-25
- News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...
- Tags: Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide
- Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicideGood riddance to bad rubbish.Too bad he took others with him.Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicideThis is very sad. There was no reason for him to take other people's lives.Much sadder then you think. Much SadderAs an avid computer enthusiast, owning...
- Tags: INTERNET, apparent murder-suicide, Escapee, murder-suicide, Spam King
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Managing growth - a followup to yesterday's guest blog
- Managing growth - a followup to yesterday's guest blogBusiness vs making a living.I'm 100% behind the guy who just wants to do what he does, sells it for enough to make a living for his family and employees, and treats his customers as if they were more important than some...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, guest blog
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soonTTLSomething I wish I'd asked during the webcast and which I can't quite get my head around:It was said that setting a long TTL doesn't help because of the way delegation works - has to...
- Tags: Domain names, DNS server, TTL, server, Kaminsky
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Ready for real Indian medicine?
- With political sovereignty over quality-killing issues such as medical malpractice and a "clean-sheet" approach, Medical Onshoring could provide certain services (e.g., cardio-vascular, artificial knees) at prices at least 15% less than local hospitals. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Blue Cross Blue Shield, Hospital, North Dakota, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?
- Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?Microsoft Search sucks.Now they are hijacking your PC to gain search share. Vista, XP, and anything else Microsoft is leaving this organization at every chance.RE: Vista: Whose 'reality' do you believe?This studies almost alway fail to note that XP's business penetration was no better after...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Forrest
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Bausch
- BauschInteresting pairing...and one that seems to make a little more sense than the traditional IT/Accounting duopoly you generally see in the enterprise. Consumer oriented businesses in this day and age should have consumer oriented systems in place. I think the change in attitude should provide immediate dividends. ...
- Tags: Product marketing, Customer relationship management (CRM), Bausch
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- HTC Touch Diamond ROM update adds 850 MHz support and much more
- I've written a few posts about the HTC Touch Diamond and my last one discussed some of the issues I was seeing with the device. I like to visit the XDA Developers site for the tweaking they do to the HTC devices, but it is kind of gray area when...
- Tags: ROM, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch, Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Google + Digg = ?
- There's a persistent rumor that crops up every few months about social news site Digg being acquired by ____ insert company here. The latest, citing "multiple sources inside and outside Google", says that Google will buy Digg for $200M. This is similar to a rumor in March that Digg was...
- Tags: Google Inc., Digg, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- Is open source hurt by piracy?
- Is open source hurt by piracy?Only hurts Open Source if proprietary is seen as "better"Sounds like what you are saying is for example, that the competition in the office suite space is Open Office Vs MS Office Vs pirated MS Office. Those willing to pirate see both Open Office...
- Tags: Operating systems, open source, piracy, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Linux, software
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
- Intel launches new chip for consumer electronics
- In its latest bid to expand beyond PCs and servers into industrial and consumer electronics applications, Intel has announced a new family of embedded processors. These chips are not based on the Atom processor already used in netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices MIDs--those versions won't arrive until...
- Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Intel Corp., Chip, Atom, SoCs, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
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