Despite the added cost to institutions, providing free music download service to students offers several advantages, including increased control over bandwidth usage and presumably lowered exposure to copyright problems. Over the past few years, more than 120 colleges and universities have provided free online music from services such as Rhapsody, Ruckus, Cdigix, and the new […]

Apple Computer has announced it will introduce a new iMac designed for the education market, replacing the current machine geared toward students and teachers–the eMac. For $899, the education-focused iMac features a 17-inch flat panel monitor, rather than the eMac’s CRT, allowing it to take up considerably less space, and an Intel Core Duo processor. […]

The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (BECTA) has discontinued the National Grid for Learning, which was set up in the late 1990s to help introduce technology into British schools.
Despite its name, the National Grid for Learning was not a grid but a collection of resources and links to help educators use technology for teaching. […]

Chinese authorities, keen to exert considerable control over access inside the country to online content it finds objectionable, has announced plans to increase restrictions on Internet and cell-phone technologies. Among the proposals is a requirement that users of cell phones would have to register themselves. Currently, Chinese citizens can use cell phones anonymously, which allows […]

The mayor of Paris has announced plans to significantly increase Internet access in the city, through both wired and wireless channels.
Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said that the city will work with private companies to establish a free Wi-Fi network across Paris by the end of 2007. The access points for the network would be located in […]

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have discovered a way to circumvent the firewall operated by the Chinese government and also to use it to launch denial-of-service attacks. Chinese authorities implemented the firewall to try to prevent computer users in the country from accessing any information deemed inflammatory by the government. According to Richard Clayton […]