The Fundacion Universitaria Iberoamericana (FUNIBER), an international educational organization, hopes to establish partnerships with U.S.
colleges and universities through which it can offer online courses in Spanish. The group already offers online courses taught in Spanish and Portuguese to students in Europe and Latin America. Officials from FUNIBER said they want to extend their offerings to […]

IBM and seven universities will collaborate on research projects under the auspices of the Open Collaborative Research program, an effort launched last year by several universities and HP, Intel, Cisco, and IBM. Some academics and corporate officials believe that the current climate of innovation has become too restrictive due to growing concerns over intellectual property […]

Princeton University announced a deal with Ruckus under which students at the institution will have free access to the 1.5 million tracks in the online music service’s library. The cost of the service will be covered by advertisements, but students will have to pay about $20 per semester if they want to transfer songs to […]

Apple Computer has dismissed a report from Forrester Research that said sales of iTunes music fell 65 percent in the first half of 2006.
Forrester arrived at that estimate by analyzing the buying habits of its consumer panel of nearly 2,800 people. Although data from other market research firms also suggests that sales of online music […]

For the third time in just over a year, a Boeing laptop containing personal information has been stolen. In November 2005, a laptop with data on 160,000 current and former employees was swiped, and another laptop was taken in April, that time with 3,600 records. In the latest incident, an employee left a laptop unattended, […]

Researchers in South Africa now have access to a new supercomputer at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) offices in Pretoria. Though the computer’s peak output of one teraflop pales in comparison to systems in other parts of the world, it nonetheless provides a new level of computational power to scientists studying several […]

UCLA has sent letters notifying 800,000 faculty, staff, students, and applicants that a database containing their personal information was accessed by a hacker for more than a year. Officials at the university said the database was breached in October 2005 but that the problem was not discovered until late November of this year when university […]

Despite a number of changes to the oversight of electronic voting machines, critics argue that the systems remain open to bugs and mischief. In January, a voluntary program approved by the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) will go into effect that covers testing and certification. Under that program, the National Institute of Standards and Technology will […]

Some online companies are using pop-ups to inflate the statistics of how many Web surfers visited their site. In that scenario, a company pops up content, rather than an advertisement, to users who have not necessarily asked to see such content. The company behind the pop-up counts that instance as a page view, however, giving […]

According to a new report from computer security firm McAfee, gangs of criminals are recruiting college students to do the dirty work of cybercrimes. In an annual report, McAfee compared the gangs’ tactics to those of agents working for the USSR during the Cold War, saying that recruiters scan computer clubs and other online venues […]