Pandora is a unique music service I recently stumbled upon. Pandora allows you to enter the name of a single song or artist, and then it generates a custom streaming music channel based around that artist. Pandora references a massive database created by the Music Genome Project to determine the properties of the song or […]

The Mobile Antivirus Researchers Association (MARA) announced a new virus that can move from PCs to mobile devices. A text file that comes with the virus says it is a proof-of-concept but hints that others will follow, saying “now it’s one big world open to all.” On a PC, the virus replicates repeatedly and copies […]

A study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that although 24 percent of rural Americans had broadband Internet service at home by the end of 2005–compared to 9 percent in 2003–the rate of adoption continues to lag behind cities and suburbs (39 percent in 2005). The cost of supplying broadband Internet to […]

IBM, Novell, and Parity Communications announced support for the Higgins Project. Sponsored by the Eclipse Open Software Foundation and Harvard Law School’s Berman Center for Internet and Society, Higgins aims to give consumers direct control over their online identities.
Higgins divides an identity into Web services, letting people control who can access parts of that information. […]

A study by Market Data Retrieval predicts a 35 percent increase in spending on information technology by colleges and universities this academic year. The study report estimates spending of more than $3 billion on hardware and $1.6 billion each on software and outside services. The report did not include salaries. The average institutional IT budget […]

IBM, Novell, and Parity Communications announced support for the Higgins Project. Sponsored by the Eclipse Open Software Foundation and Harvard Law School’s Berman Center for Internet and Society, Higgins aims to give consumers direct control over their online identities.
Higgins divides an identity into Web services, letting people control who can access parts of that information. […]

The U.K. Education and Research Networking Association (UKERNA), which manages the JANET network connecting higher and further education institutions, has contracted for automated backup, archiving, hosting, and Web file services. According to Tim Kidd, UKERNA production services director, the move is in response to changes in the ways academics and institutions use the network, particularly […]

A study by Market Data Retrieval predicts a 35 percent increase in spending on information technology by colleges and universities this academic year. The study report estimates spending of more than $3 billion on hardware and $1.6 billion each on software and outside services. The report did not include salaries. The average institutional IT budget […]

The U.K. Education and Research Networking Association (UKERNA), which manages the JANET network connecting higher and further education institutions, has contracted for automated backup, archiving, hosting, and Web file services. According to Tim Kidd, UKERNA production services director, the move is in response to changes in the ways academics and institutions use the network, particularly […]

A study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that although 24 percent of rural Americans had broadband Internet service at home by the end of 2005–compared to 9 percent in 2003–the rate of adoption continues to lag behind cities and suburbs (39 percent in 2005). The cost of supplying broadband Internet to […]