Details of the recent deal in which the University of California will join Google’s book-scanning project have been released through an open-records request. Under the deal, the university will provide as many as 3,000 books per day to the search engine for digitization, eventually totaling at least 2.5 million books. The university and Google will […]

Verizon Wireless mistakenly e-mailed an Excel spreadsheet containing information on more than 5,200 subscribers to about 1,800 customers of the company. The e-mail was supposed to include an electronic order form for a Bluetooth wireless headset as part of a promotional offer.
The Excel file did not contain highly sensitive information such as credit card or […]

A federal judge in Virginia sentenced a Florida man to six years in prison for selling millions of dollars worth of pirated software. Danny Ferrer admitted that he sold bogus copies of software on his Web site, BuysUSA.com, using fake serial numbers that he obtained online. The FBI is continuing an investigation into those responsible […]

A British teenager has been sentenced to a two-month curfew for sending millions of e-mails to a former employer, causing its servers to crash.
Previously, a judge had ruled that the e-mails did not violate the Computer Misuse Act, under which David Lennon was charged, but an appeals court rejected that ruling. The law, which dates […]

The U.S. Department of Education said it is working to fix a computer problem that allowed student borrowers to see loan information for other students. According to the agency, the problem resulted from a routine software upgrade by Affiliated Computers Services Inc., a contractor to the agency. Evidently, that upgrade caused student loan data for […]

New services are emerging that offer online tutorials for adjunct faculty, a group many say is marginalized and treated poorly by many colleges and universities. Higher education increasingly depends on adjuncts, often to teach night or weekend classes, and many adjunct faculty have little experience teaching. Services such as AdjunctSuccess offer online seminars and other […]

As part of a move against Internet scam rings operating in Romania, police arrested 23 people in Pitesti, from a group of 63 suspects sought for questioning over accusations of scamming foreigners by posing as well-known firms to clients of those companies. After tricking the e-mail recipients into updating their contact database, the scammers allegedly […]

Microsoft announced that it has fixed a bug in the MS06-040 Windows Server services update, a critical security patch. The bug affected programs that use large amounts of memory on some versions of Windows.
Although the bug did not affect most Windows systems, it did cause problems in Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and the 64-bit version […]

The European Commission (EC) supported German regulators who ordered Deutsche Telekom AG to open its high-speed Internet networks to competitors. As a result of the order, the company must permit competitors to buy access on its broadband network to offer their own services to end users. German regulators will have advance approval of the price […]

SanDisk has introduced the Sansa e280, a flash-based MP3 player with twice the storage capability of Apple’s iPod nano, in an attempt to gain market share against Apple Computer. The new player includes 8 gigabytes of flash memory and an optional 2 GB microSD card. The price of the 4 GB iPod nano is $249, […]