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University to Provide Free Wireless Internet Access

University to Provide Free Wireless Internet AccessCLEVELANDCase Western Reserve University has opened up more than 1,230 wireless access points this month, providing free campus-based wireless Internet access to faculty, students, staff and visitors. The move is the first phase of a plan named OneCleveland to blanket Cleveland with free wireless Internet access. “The network we […]

September 24, 2003

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Don’t Become a Victim of Identity Theft

Don’t Become a Victim of Identity TheftBy Reid Goldsborough Imagine having your bank account drained, being unable to use your credit cards, and seeing your credit rating trashed. Imagine then spending hour after hour trying to clear your good name and get your life back together.Identity theft is the No. 1 consumer complaint reported to […]

September 10, 2003

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Taming the Power of a PC

Taming the Power of a PCBy Reid Goldsborough Like many machines, personal computers have the ability to both empower and alienate. Only they do it better. On the one hand, PCs enable you to accomplish several tasks — what previously took many people — boosting your productivity and freeing you from needing to work with […]

August 27, 2003

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New Web Site to Focus on the Business of Higher Education

New Web Site to Focus on the Business of Higher EducationBy Ronald Roach NEW YORKLearningTimes LLC, a provider of online conference communities for education, and the Campus Computing Project, the largest ongoing study of information technology in American higher education, have announced the launch of MarketTimes, a Web-based information service focused on the postsecondary education […]

August 27, 2003

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Where to Get the Best Deal on a PC

Where to Get the Best Deal on a PCBy Reid Goldsborough A long with how to best use computers, knowing what, when and where to buy them is at the essence of what people want to learn about PCs. Deciding where to buy can be no less tricky than it is in other buying decisions, […]

July 2, 2003

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Veterinary School to Adopt Wireless Handheld Devices

Veterinary School to Adopt Wireless Handheld DevicesBy Ronald Roach RALEIGH, N.C. A  leading veterinary medicine school plans to provide its students with wireless handheld computing devices, joining a growing trend among medical and health science schools. This fall, North Carolina State University (NCSU) College of Veterinary Medicine in Raleigh will provide a Palm Tungsten C […]

July 2, 2003

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Strayer University, AT&T Partner to Offer Employees College Study Options

Strayer University, AT&T Partner to Offer Employees College Study OptionsBy Ronald Roach RALEIGH, N.C. A  leading veterinary medicine school plans to provide its students with wireless handheld computing devices, joining a growing trend among medical and health science schools. This fall, North Carolina State University (NCSU) College of Veterinary Medicine in Raleigh will provide a […]

July 2, 2003

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Magic Johnson Foundation, HP Open Tech Center in Michigan

Magic Johnson Foundation, HP Open Tech Center in MichiganBy Ronald Roach LANSING, Mich.Aiming to push community-based technology as a means to bridge the digital divide, the Hewlett-Packard company and the Magic Johnson Foundation have opened the 11th Magic Johnson HP Inventor Center at the Black Child and Family Institute in Lansing. The center offers training […]

June 18, 2003

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Blogs: Latest Option in Raising Your Voice Online

Blogs: Latest Option in Raising Your Voice Online By Reid Goldsborough One of the more interesting aspects involving the news coverage of the war in Iraq was the personal accounts, or logs, of embedded reporters as they traveled with soldiers. Readers got a first-hand, first-person account of what fighting men and women experienced. Similar ideas […]

June 4, 2003

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Philadelphia Adopts Computer Certification Program

Philadelphia Adopts Computer Certification ProgramBy Ronald Roach PHILADELPHIAIn an effort to boost work-force productivity and business growth, a coalition has been formed to better prepare Philadelphia area residents to succeed in the technology-driven workplace.The newly-formed Greater Philadelphia Computer Skills Collaborative is being led by the Mayor’s Commission on Technology, IBM, the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of […]

June 4, 2003

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Blogs: Latest Option in Raising Your Voice Online

Blogs: Latest Option in Raising Your Voice OnlineOne of the more interesting aspects involving the news coverage of the war in Iraq was the personal accounts, or logs, of embedded reporters as they traveled with soldiers. Readers got a first-hand, first-person account of what fighting men and women experienced.Similar ideas are behind the newest trend […]

May 21, 2003

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Marine Life Research Anchors High-End Computing at Seaside HBCU

Marine Life Research Anchors High-End Computing at Seaside HBCUIt’s not often that small, private liberal arts colleges seek out computing resources normally associated with major research universities. When officials at historically Black Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Fla., took on the challenge of joining the elite Internet2 consortium of colleges and universities, it had to […]

May 21, 2003