The U.S. Library of Congress has launched an effort to create a vast digital collection of artifacts representing the cultures of the world.
Librarian of Congress James Billington said the World Digital Library would be “a documentary record of other great cultures of the world,” dealing “with the culture of those people rather than with our […]

Cities and towns across the United States are launching, or announcing plans to launch, wireless broadband networks. Wireless technologies are evolving to allow increasingly secure, robust networks in city-wide installations. Large cities, such as Philadelphia and San Francisco, and smaller towns, such as Lebanon, Oregon, are establishing wireless municipal networks for reasons ranging from economic […]

Libraries increasingly find themselves in a quandary between growing expectations among patrons for personalized services and libraries’ traditional stance as a strong advocate for personal privacy.
Commercial enterprises such as Amazon and Netflix typically make suggestions to customers based on previous purchases and can notify users when certain products are available. The library at North Carolina […]

In the United Kingdom, a report from the Council for Science and Technology calls on the government to share information among its various agencies while keeping a close eye on privacy concerns. Due to the sheer amount of data that the government collects and stores, pooling that data can facilitate improved public services, as happens […]

The recreation center at Minnesota State University now includes computers that can be used while people are exercising. Although many fitness centers include individual TVs for treadmills and other pieces of equipment, officials at Minnesota State wanted to offer something more. They set up 40 adjustable stands, each of which has a computer, monitor, mouse, […]

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Officials at Indiana University reported that a routine scan of computer systems turned up malicious software on the computer of a faculty member at the Kelley School of Business. According to James Anderson, the school’s director of information technology, the software could have been used to access the personal information of about 5,300 current and […]

Groups opposed to two provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act up for review expressed disappointment at a tentative plan to extend both. The proposed extension was written by a conference committee charged with reconciling House and Senate versions of a bill covering the parts of the act that will otherwise expire at the end of […]

Six individuals caught in a Secret Service sting called Operation Firewall pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit credit and bank card fraud and ID document fraud. Two other individuals involved in the scam previously pleaded guilty to the same charge. All were among 19 who were indicted last year, charged with running a private-access Web […]

Delegates at an international meeting in Tunisia have agreed to allow oversight of the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) to remain with the United States. Leading up to the World Summit on the Information Society, a number of nations had put forth proposals that would have required the United States to cede DNS control to […]