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Empower Others to Solve Computer Problems

Empower Others to Solve Computer ProblemsBy Reid Goldsborough Has this happened to you? Your third cousin twice removed calls you in a panic that his computer is on the fritz. He thinks he may have picked up a virus, or maybe one of his kids messed things up by sharing music with friends over the […]

August 25, 2004

Berkeley Opens High-Tech Lab

Berkeley Opens High-Tech Lab To Support Social Science Research BERKELEY, Calif.The University of California at Berkeley Haas School of Business has launched the XLab — which is shorthand for Experimental Social Sciences Laboratory. The XLab is a high-tech facility to help economists, political scientists and other social scientists test their theories and to determine whether […]

August 25, 2004

Managing the Risks and Rewards of Instant Messaging

Managing the Risks and Rewards of Instant MessagingYou probably think instant messaging (IM) as something teenagers do to chat up friends online, whether across the street or across the world. But IM has some buttoned-down business benefits, as well as some risks you may not be aware of.Unlike e-mail, in which you fire off messages […]

August 11, 2004

Utah State Collaborating With MIT on Courseware

Utah State Collaborating With MIT on CoursewareLOGAN, Utah Researchers affiliated with the Open Sustainable Learning Opportunity (OSLO) Group at Utah State University have launched the Open Learning Support (OLS) initiative, a program that complements the free Web-based educational materials from MIT’s OpenCourseWare (OCW) project. The OLS initiative is set up to work with seven MIT […]

August 11, 2004

Higher Education Middleware Security Group Formed

Higher Education Middleware Security Group FormedWASHINGTON A coalition of higher education associations and state university systems have formed a partnership to discover how middleware software tools might help college and universities strengthen identity and access management. Announced in late June, the partnership, entitled Extending the Reach (ETR), includes the EDUCAUSE, the Internet2 consortium, the Southeastern […]

August 11, 2004

USC Offers Pacemakers That Can Be Monitored Online

USC Offers Pacemakers That Can Be Monitored OnlineLOS ANGELESPhysicians at the University of Southern California’s University Hospital are now able to evaluate patients with implantable cardiac devices and pacemakers over the Internet, without requiring them to venture from their homes. USC is the first academic institution in Southern California to use the Medtronic CareLink(R) Network, […]

July 28, 2004

Americans Turning to Internet for Graphic War Images

Americans Turning to Internet for Graphic War ImagesWASHINGTONA study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that during some of the most turbulent weeks of the Iraq war nearly one quarter of Internet users (24 percent), or roughly 30 million, in the United States went online to see some of the graphic war […]

July 28, 2004

Teaching Good Computing Habits, Not Bad

Teaching Good Computing Habits, Not BadYou may be a word processing wizard, spreadsheet jockey, database guru and communications genius. But what about the sorry sap two cubicles down who starts to sweat every time he boots up his computer.Many people struggle with computer technology, avoiding learning how to use it or, more frequently, failing to […]

July 16, 2004

Microsoft Funds New Research, Curriculum Development Projects

Microsoft Funds New Research, Curriculum Development ProjectsREDMOND, Wash.The Microsoft Corp. has announced its latest round of grant awards aimed at fostering academic innovation by colleges and universities around the world. The company says that 77 colleges and universities from more than 25 countries have been awarded Innovation Excellence Awards for Windows Embedded with grants totaling […]

July 16, 2004

Preventing Catastrophes From Data Loss

Preventing Catastrophes From Data LossWhat’s the worst thing that can happen to your computer? Worse than a hard disk crash, virus infection, spam assault, denial-of-service attack, hacker take-over, fire, flood, or other human, mechanical or natural disaster is a faulty backup when you really need it. If the computer blows up, as long as your […]

June 30, 2004

Security Software for Individual Personal Computers Released

Security Software for Individual Personal Computers Released DALLASIndividual PC users can now control what happens to the e-mail messages and attachments sent from their computers. A new PC security software product called Essential Security Suite allows individuals to prevent their outbound messages and files from being forwarded, saved, printed or “screen-captured” by the recipient. The Dallas-based […]

June 30, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Tablet PCs Getting Campus Tryouts

Tablet PCs Getting Campus Tryouts Mobile computing device said to launch new era in personal computingWhen Microsoft chairman Bill Gates presided over the introduction of the Tablet PC and its Microsoft operating system in 2002, he declared the mobile computing device, which features a touchpad screen that recognizes handwriting, to be launching a new era […]

June 30, 2004

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