Deloitte and Touche, the external auditor of computer-security firm McAfee, has lost a CD containing unencrypted data on more than 9,000 McAfee employees. The CD was left in a seat pocket on an airliner on December 15, though the loss was not reported to Deloitte officials until January 8, and it took until January 30 […]

Parks Associates, a market research firm, reports that most of the U.S.
homes that do not have Internet access do not intend to sign up for it.
A survey of 1,000 U.S. households found that of the 36 percent not online, only 2 percent planned to sign up for an Internet service this year. Of those households […]

Parks Associates, a market research firm, reports that most of the U.S.
homes that do not have Internet access do not intend to sign up for it.
A survey of 1,000 U.S. households found that of the 36 percent not online, only 2 percent planned to sign up for an Internet service this year. Of those households […]

A tenured professor at the University of Saskatchewan has been fired for posting derogatory comments on RateMyProfessors.com about other faculty at the university. Stephen Berman was accused of using the Web site to criticize other faculty over a seven-month period in 2002 and 2003. Although the comments were made anonymously, presumably by students, some of […]

A new report from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) argues that fears of a wholesale migration of high-tech jobs away from the United States are not supported by the data so far. Representing a year’s work by a study group, the report predicts continued offshoring of 2 to 3 percent of IT jobs each […]

The president of Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, has forbidden expansion of the institution’s very limited wireless network due to health concerns over the technology. According to Fred Gilbert, “The jury is still out on the impact that electromagnetic forces have on human physiology.” Gilbert said that while he is president, the policy would […]

The backbone of the National LambdaRail network has been completed, connecting New York with Seattle and Jacksonville, Fla., with Sunnyvale, Calif., with a number of north-south connections linking those two lines. The 15,000 mile, fiber-optic network for academic research was developed by the National LambdaRail consortium, a group of about 30 universities and companies. Although […]

The European Union (EU) has solicited proposals for a European Institute of Technology (EIT), which would conduct research and work to commercialize products and services that come of that research. As models for the EIT, the EU suggested MIT, which has been very successful at bringing the fruits of research to market, as well as […]

A federal judge in Arkansas has sentenced a well-known spammer to eight years in prison for illegally accessing and downloading more than one billion records from data broker Acxiom. Prosecutors alleged that in 2003, Scott Levine stole a password file from Acxiom, which claims to have the world’s largest database of consumer information. Levine then […]

Although most faculty acknowledge the benefits of e-mail, many believe that one of the downsides of the technology is an erosion of the boundaries that traditionally separate instructors from students.
Faculty said e-mail can help them identify students who are struggling, and it encourages participation from students who might otherwise keep quiet. Increasing numbers of students, […]