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Philippine school retails online learning
News CAL Philippines provides Web-based education via prepaid value cards, where students pay to access courses based on number of days.
Tags: IT training, Web sites, E-learning, Online Learning, Philippines, Training, Virginia Tech, training industry, University of Texas, U.S.
Opposition to Net taxes heats up
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Antitax bandwagon rolling
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Facebook fights Virginia's demand for user data, photos
News The state of Virginia has abandoned its US$200-a-day-fine aimed at forcing Facebook to divulge the complete contents of a user's account to settle a dispute over workers' compensation, narrowly avoiding a high-profile privacy battle in federal court.
Tags: Web 2.0, Insurance Company, User Data, attorney, Compensation, Virginia, photograph, accident, Facebook, Web 2.0
Attacker reportedly holds US state's patient data hostage
News Virginia Prescription Monitoring Program site remains down after attacker allegedly breaks into the Web site and deletes data, demanding a ransom to get it back.
Tags: Hacking, Data security, Backup, FBI, Washington Post Co., Password, Virginia, Attacker, patient, health care
TomTom countersues Microsoft in patent dispute
News The car navigation device maker responds in a court filing Thursday, accusing Microsoft of violating four of its patents.
Tags: Copyright, Lawsuits, Microsoft Corp., Patent, TomTom, GPS, Virginia, Linux Kernel, device manufacturer, software
Apple's new data center foreshadows a cloudy future
Techguide Apple's new data center project is so big that it begs the question of whether Apple is simply planning for the growth of its current services or if it has more ambitious plans in the works.
Tags: Cloud computing, Data centers, Apple Inc., Tablet, Video, Storage, Apple Macintosh, Cloud computing, Apple iPhone, data center
Bill would give US president emergency control of Internet
News Critics question revised proposal from U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller to let the White House do what it deems necessary to respond to a "cybersecurity emergency".
Tags: Web sites, Cybersecurity, U.S. Senate, computer, aide, White House, Electronic Frontier Foundation, network, Internet, president
IBM makes the world its lab
News Convincing countries and companies around the world of need to innovate during the economic downturn, has resulted in new cutting-edge partnerships for Big Blue.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, IBM Corp., University, Chip, Samuel J. Palmisano, intellectual property, Switzerland, China Telecom, China, strategy
U.S. judge rules against AOL in spam suit
News A U.S. court has dismissed a law-suit brought against spammers by ISP giant AOL.
Sun launches managed services center in Asia
News The Indian facility caters to the company's customers in the region, previously served by centers located in Scotland and the United States.
Tags: Servers, Database management, Network administration/implementation, Outsourcing
Apple continues modest move into clusters
News Though Apple doesn't fancy itself a high-performance computing giant, the company says it's making some headway in regard to both supercomputers and smaller-scale clusters.
Tags: Multiprocessor servers, Mac OS
U.S. court upholds antispam law
News Virginia court denies convicted spammer's appeal, rejects argument that the state law is unconstitutional.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Legal, Government
IBM US government contracts ban lifted
News While the temporary ban has been removed, Big Blue is still busy cooperating with an Environmental Protection Agency investigation.
Most Rambus claims thrown out of court
News Judge says Rambus case hinges on only three patents.
All but three of Rambus' patent claims against Germany's Infineon were dismissed by a US federal judge in Richmond, Virginia late on Monday.
