A new survey by Ipsos Insight shows that the number of people who use the Internet for banking has reached a plateau, but that those who do their banking online are conducting growing numbers of transactions.
According to the survey, roughly 39 percent of Americans use the Internet for personal banking–the same number as a year […]

An Australian court this week ruled in favor of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in its lawsuit against the developers of the Kazaa file-sharing service for copyright violations. The ruling is the second major blow to file traders this year, after the U.S. Supreme Court in June found Grokster liable for the copyright […]

Recipe: Swiss, Chocolate, Brandy, Decadence Cake

Recipe: Chocolate, Amaretto, and Almond Mousse

A graduate student has filed a lawsuit charging three online vendors of term papers with selling a paper she wrote without her permission. Blue Macellari is currently pursuing graduate degrees at Johns Hopkins University and Duke University. The paper in question, which was written when she was a student at Mount Holyoke College, was posted […]

The state of Massachusetts is considering a proposal that would require all state documents to be compliant with the Open Document format rather than requiring proprietary software. The Open Document format is part of Open Office 2.0, a free software suite that is currently under development. Saying that the proposal is not “an anti-Microsoft initiative,” […]

U.S. District Court Judge Janet C. Hall has postponed deciding whether a Connecticut library may publicly disclose its identity as the institution whose records have been sought by the FBI under the PATRIOT Act. The act forces any organization whose records have been subpoenaed to be silent about the investigation, but the library in question […]

As the number of computers on college campuses rises, and as IT becomes increasingly rooted in campus activities, higher education officials find themselves facing expanding numbers and kinds of threats to vulnerabilities in computer security. According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse (PRC), 50 million people have been involved in data breaches over the past seven […]