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Morris Brown College Wins Moby Award

Morris Brown College Wins Moby AwardATLANTAMorris Brown College has won recognition for its partnership with Toshiba America Information Systems Corp. for wireless and mobile computing. This fall, the Atlanta-based college won a MOBY award for its collaboration with Toshiba in the category of education. The MOBY awards are sponsored by Mobile Insights, a company recognized […]

January 2, 2002

When There’s a Need for Speed

When There’s a Need for SpeedSpeed has played a key role with computers since the inception of the digital age in the 1940s. The very raison d’être of electronic machines is their ability to carry out computational procedures faster than humans.Speed is not always what it’s cracked up to be. On the other hand, speed […]

December 19, 2001

Campus Computing Survey Shows E-Commerce Gains

Campus Computing Survey Shows E-Commerce GainsClaremont, Calif.The upcoming 2001 Campus Computing survey highlights modest gains by U.S. colleges and universities in the use of e-commerce solutions for administrative tasks, such as managing course registration over the Internet.The survey is conducted annually by Dr. Kenneth C. Green, founder and director of The Campus Computing Project and […]

November 21, 2001

Should You Buy an Internet Appliance?

Should You Buy an Internet Appliance?Let’s say you’re not yet online and want to get there but don’t want to mess with a complicated computer. Or let’s say your parents or grandparents fit this description. What should you do?This question has spawned an entire category of simple Internet access devices called Internet appliances. Yet these […]

October 24, 2001

TSU Makes ‘Most Wired’ List for Second Year

TSU Makes ‘Most Wired’ List for Second YearFor the second consecutive year, Tennessee State University garnered a spot on the Yahoo! Internet Life’s top 100 “Most Wired Colleges” list. Last year, the Nashville, Tenn.-based campus, along with Hampton University and Morehouse College, became the first historically Black colleges to win places on the Most Wired […]

October 24, 2001

HCBUs Awarded Federal Digital Divide Grants

HCBUs Awarded Federal Digital Divide GrantsWASHINGTONNorth Carolina Central University and Grambling State University are among 74 nonprofit organizations, which include colleges, universities, local governments and community development groups, receiving $42.8 million in grants from the Technology Opportunities Program (TOP), which is coordinated by the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).The TOP grants, […]

October 24, 2001

The Road From Bowie to Indianapolis: Sharing the IT Experience

The Road From Bowie to Indianapolis: Sharing the IT Experience For information technology professionals, administrators and faculty members at American colleges and universities, technology conferences provide useful forums for teaching and learning about the latest trends in computing and other technologies. Among those professionals in positions to share knowledge about their school’s technology experiences, there’s […]

October 24, 2001

South Dakota University Mandates Use Of Handheld Computing Devices

South Dakota University Mandates Use Of Handheld Computing DevicesSIOUX FALLS, S.D.The University of South Dakota (USD) at Vermillion has provided Palm handheld computers to 1,300 first-year undergraduates and first-year law and medical students. The initiative, which is one of the first by a U.S. campus to mandate the use of handheld computers by undergraduate students, […]

October 10, 2001

Rutgers Tests Internet Plagiarism Software

Rutgers Tests Internet Plagiarism SoftwareNEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.Alarmed by reports that the Internet is making it easier than ever for students to cheat on term papers and research, Rutgers University is trying out anti-plagiarism software. The university bought the package from a California company, turnitin.com, which gives institutions access to a huge database it can scan […]

September 26, 2001

PDAs Are Coming to Campus

PDAs Are Coming to CampusBrand names of handheld computing devices, such as Palm, Blackberry and iPAQ Pocket PC, are widely known to American consumers. The popularity of these devices, also known as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), among busy professionals has especially boomed given their capacity for data storage, organizing information and various computing tasks.Consequently, as […]

September 26, 2001

UVA Honor Committee Drops 25 Plagiarism Cases

UVA Honor Committee Drops 25 Plagiarism CasesCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. The University of Virginia’s Honor Committee has dropped 25 of 130 honor code violations after finding the accused students’ papers were originals that others had plagiarized. One student has been found guilty of plagiarism in the school’s biggest cheating scandal in recent memory. The cheating scandal came […]

September 12, 2001

Making Smart PC Buying Choices

Making Smart PC Buying ChoicesMore than ever, personal computers are commodities, with relatively standard configurations. And PCs in relative terms are less expensive than ever. Yet buying a PC can still be tricky and involve a sizable investment, whether you’re purchasing one system for home use or several hundred for business use.You may not be […]

August 29, 2001

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