Archives: 'March, 2006'

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March
2006

Philadelphia’s Wi-fi Takes Shape

The city of Philadelphia is moving forward with its plan to have a low-cost wireless network covering the entire 135 square miles of the city. The city announced that it selected EarthLink to build and maintain the network, which will not depend on taxpayer money.
EarthLink will pay the city an access fee for the 4,000 […]

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March
2006

Last.fm

With applications like Pandora (profile) getting some attention from the blogosphere, it’s time to shed some light on another music-related project that’s been around for some time now and that I also just recently discovered.
Last.fm. Last FM (now merged with the Audioscrobbler project) allows you to generate a profile of your musical taste based on […]

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March
2006

Vast Wi-fi Network Debuts In Australia

The Department of Education in Victoria, Australia, has deployed what officials there said is likely the largest unified enterprise wireless network in the world. The network consists of 10,000 access points in 1,700 locations covering 540,000 students, 42,000 teachers, and more than 200,000 computers. According to Loris Meadows, head of ICT security for the department, […]

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March
2006

Control Of .com Expected To Stay With VeriSign

The directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) have voted 9-5, with one abstention, to approve a deal that will leave control of the .com domain with VeriSign until at least 2012. The deal ends legal action between the two organizations over functionality introduced by VeriSign that ICANN opposed, saying it […]

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March
2006

Congress Lifts The 50 Percent Rule

Tucked inside a budget bill passed by Congress is a provision that repeals the 50 percent rule, which restricted federal financial aid to students attending colleges and universities that offer fewer than half of their courses online or that enroll fewer than half their students at a distance. The rule was enacted in 1992 to […]

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March
2006

Surveying The Open Source Landscape In Higher Ed

A new study from the Alliance for Higher Education Competitiveness paints a picture of higher education as very interested in, but cautious about, open source software. Based on a survey of officials at more than 200 campuses, the study found that although two-thirds are investigating open source, only one-quarter are currently implementing open source applications. […]

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