Recording companies have filed suit in U.S. Federal District Court in Manhattan against a Russan online music service. The lawsuit seeks an injunction against AllofMP3.com to prevent it from selling copyrighted music without permission and to force it to surrender its domain names.
The Russian site sells albums for a fraction of the cost of legal […]

Officials from Mississippi State University (MSU) have notified approximately 2,400 students and employees that their confidential information was mistakenly made available on a public Web site. In a statement, Doc Foglesong, president of MSU, said, “When we learned that the site actually was publicly accessible, we took the server offline immediately and began an investigation.” […]

Under a new agreement between NASA and Google, considerable amounts of data will be available through applications developed by the space agency. Last year, Google agreed to start a research center at NASA’s Ames Research Center. Chris Kemp, director of strategic business development at Ames, said of the data on hand at NASA, “Even though […]

A number of industry analysts believe that 2007 will be the year in which revenues from sales of laptops surpass those of desktop computers. According to Richard Farmer, analyst with Merrill Lynch, the current revenue split for PC makers (47 percent desktops, 41.6 percent laptops) will change in 2007 to 45.6 percent laptops and 43.1 […]

Educational institutions reportedly have had more information security breaches than government, business, financial service, and health-care companies and are twice as likely to report breaches as other entities.
According to Ron Ben-Natan, chief technology officer at database security and monitoring first Guardium, “College and university databases are the ideal target for cyber criminals and unscrupulous insiders […]

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plan to donate at least $60 million over the next three years to improve schools in third-world countries. The Gates Foundation will give $40 million to the Hewlett Foundation, which will contribute $20 million to the project. Said Hewlett Foundation President Paul […]

Verizon Communications plans to build an undersea, fiber-optic link between the United States and China, partnering with China Telecom, China Netcom, China Unicom, and companies in Korea and Taiwan.
Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2007 and end late in 2008.
Data transport speeds are predicted to reach 10 gigabits per second for individual customers. The […]

Cingular Wireless plans to offer its customers a version of the social-networking site MySpace.com on its phones for about $3 a month.
Users reportedly will be able to upload photos taken on their cell phones, read and respond to MySpace e-mail, update blog entries, and view and search for friends. Users must download a Java software […]

Princeton Review, an educational and test preparation company, and PC Magazine surveyed about 240 colleges and universities to select the United States top “wired” campus. They declared Villanova University the winner, with its advanced finance lab that gives students access to Wall Street tools, including stock tickers. The university also provides laptops to freshmen, preloaded […]

Chinese authorities this week announced an agreement with four trade associations about the ongoing problem of copyright infringement, which is reportedly rampant in China. The Business Software Alliance and the Publishers Association (both in the United Kingdom), the Association of American Publishers, and the Motion Picture Association of America (in the United States) signed the […]