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Creating Web Sites for Web Surfers

Creating Web Sites for Web SurfersIf you build it, will they come? This is one of the fundamental questions anybody creating a Web site has to confront, whether you’re a business person, a Web professional or a home user.One of the fundamental ways to ensure people do come, and return, is to make the content […]

June 16, 2004

History Simulation Software Set for Release

History Simulation Software Set for ReleaseNEWBURYPORT, Mass.The education software firm Muzzy Lane recently debuted a history-learning program for university students based on a multi-user game format. The program, titled “Making History,” enables groups of students to assume the roles of world leaders interacting with one another in decisive periods of history. Players are essentially asked […]

June 16, 2004

Community Colleges

Technology: Riding the Waves of Change

Technology: Riding the Waves of ChangeBy Ronald Roach Twenty years of information technology (IT) innovation have transformed American higher education. From the introduction of personal computers to the spread of the Internet and e-mail, information technology innovation has altered the communications, administrative, research and teaching landscapes of colleges and universities. Its reach has permeated throughout […]

June 16, 2004

How to Find the Right Web Host

How to Find the Right Web HostIf you’re in business and online, it’s likely that at some point as your business changes, you’ll want to switch Web hosting companies or consider using one if you don’t already.The greatest benefit to using a “Web hoster” is the greater assurance that it will keep your site up. […]

June 2, 2004

Record Industry Sales Not Hurt by File-Sharing, Professors Say

Record Industry Sales Not Hurt by File-Sharing, Professors Say CHAPEL HILL, N.C.Dr. Koleman S. Strumpf of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Dr. Felix Oberholzer-Gee of the Harvard Business School have recently completed and released a study that contends music file-sharing among computer users has not been a cause for reduced U.S. […]

June 2, 2004

Desktop or Laptop: How to Decide?

Desktop or Laptop: How to Decide?One remarkable reality of the personal computer revolution is that the computers and the components in them continually get faster, smaller and cheaper. One dilemma this has led to, for many buyers, is deciding just what type of computer to buy when it’s time to replace your current one.The major […]

May 19, 2004

African-American

Disciplined Consequences of Brown

Disciplined Consequences of BrownThe desegregation that began in Clarendon, S.C., came to my hometown of Sumter back in 1965, some 11 years after the celebrated Brown decision. My sense of surprise, anxiety and anticipation when informed that I would be among the handful of students chosen to undertake this noble experiment was understandably significant.I didn’t […]

May 19, 2004

Youth Should Get Cyber Ethics at Home, Survey Says

Youth Should Get Cyber Ethics at Home, Survey SaysWASHINGTONIt’s the parents’ primary responsibility to teach kids respect for copyrighted works, according to a new survey on Internet downloading ethics commissioned by the Business Software Alliance (BSA).The survey reveals that 4 out of 5 (78 percent) respondents say parents bear the most responsibility in teaching the […]

April 21, 2004

Students Use Internet To Help With Laundry

Students Use Internet To Help With Laundry PITTSBURGHThrough May 15, Carnegie Mellon University is piloting eSuds, a Web-based laundry system, in three residence halls. If all goes well with the pilot, the system will be installed campuswide this August, just in time for the 2004-05 school year. eSuds, which was developed by USA Technologies Inc., […]

April 21, 2004

Keeping PCs Up to Date Can Be Fun

Keeping PCs Up to Date Can Be FunNormally we think of maintenance as a chore, something we have to do to keep things running smoothly and prevent problems down the road. But with a personal computer, maintenance can actually be fun … approached from the right perspective.The “joy” of computer maintenance takes many forms. These […]

April 7, 2004

Magic Johnson Foundation Opens Miami Community Tech Center

Magic Johnson Foundation Opens Miami Community Tech CenterSAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif.Dr. Henry T. Nicholas III, co-founder and former CEO of the Broadcom Corporation, has announced a gift from the Nicholas Foundation of $10 million to St. Margaret’s Episcopal School in San Juan Capistrano and the formation of a collaboration with the University of California, Irvine […]

March 24, 2004

Magic Johnson Foundation Opens Miami Community Tech Center

Magic Johnson Foundation Opens Miami Community Tech CenterMIAMIThe Magic Johnson Foundation and the Hewlett Packard (HP) company have dedicated yet another community technology facility aimed at bridging the digital divide with the opening of the 12th Magic Johnson/HP Inventor Center at the Mattie Koonce Learning Center (MKC) in Miami’s Overtown community. Starting last month, the […]

March 24, 2004

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