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Singapore, overseas universities may team on Wi-Fi roaming
News Local undergraduates on exchange programs may soon enjoy Wi-Fi roaming at overseas universities if a plan by the National University of Singapore (NUS) takes off.
Gates to students: Microsoft wants you
News Bill Gates preached the "magic of software" to a packed ballroom at Howard University and said it's up to today's generation of college students to drive innovation in the future.
Tags: Memory, Notebooks and tablets, Software, Search, Recruiting
The secret of phishers' success
News Scams are sophisticated enough to trap many consumers despite widespread public warnings, a study finds.
Tags: Spam and phishing
Facebook hits 175 million user mark
News Social networking site adds 25 million active users in little more than a month.
Tags: Domain names, Web sites, Web 2.0, Antarctica, Nigeria, Massachusetts, Japan, social networking, Russia, Harvard University
Facebook hits 100 million users
News Less than five years after then-college student Mark Zuckerberg created the site in his dorm room, the social network has 100 million active users, most of whom are outside the United States.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, social networking, Harvard University, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, ComScore Networks Inc., network, founder, Cambridge
Here come the 'Twitter, we did it first' lawsuits
News Service that makes emergency-management messaging software has sued Twitter over alleged patent infringement. The legal documents, however, are pretty vague.
Tags: Web 2.0, Legal, Twitter, Lawsuit, Emergency Management, Harvard University, Mark Zuckerberg, emergency response, Facebook, founder
IBM, Harvard tap compute cloud for solar research
News A grid-computing project led by Harvard University seeks to identify which organic materials would perform best as electricity-generating solar cells.
Tags: Market research, Green IT, Components, IBM Corp., Computing, Existing World Community Grid Project, nonprofit organization, solar cell, Computer, World Community Grid
Reports: Google, US govt talked about Book Search
News The U.S. Justice Department has held talks with Google about its book-search project, according to published reports. Are antitrust concerns getting more serious?
Tags: Search, Legal, Google Inc., Internet Search Advertising, U.S. Department Of Justice, Settlement, Class Action, antitrust, Harvard University, New York Times Co.
Measuring your Google search's carbon footprint
News A Harvard University physicist says a typical search on a desktop computer generates about 7 grams of carbon dioxide, which is comparable to bringing a kettle to boil.
Tags: Green IT, Infrastructure/architecture management, Clean Technology, Google Inc., Carbon Footprint, Geothermal Energy, Computer, Eric Schmidt, Google Search, carbon dioxide
Ig Nobel Prize publisher to go free online
News The Annals of Improbable Research, best known as the host of the Ig Nobel Awards, will now offer a free online version of its journal.
Tags: Digital media, Multimedia
Harvard student database hacked, posted on BitTorrent
News Data thief says he wants to make a point about the insecurity of Harvard's servers.
Tags: Hacking, Data security
The blogging conundrum
Insight commentary In recent times, Web logs, better known as blogs, have gained in popularity (and notoriety), especially in the United States.
Mail server flaw opens Exchange to spam
News Administrators of e-mail systems based on Microsoft's Exchange might have spammers using their servers to send unsolicited bulk e-mail under their noses, a consultant warned this week.
Microsoft investigates Exchange security hole
News The newly launched server software appears to contain a serious flaw that allows Web-based users to access other accounts.
Google pauses library project
News Search powerhouse will temporarily stop scanning copyright-protected books while it works out an agreement with publishers.
Tags: Search
