Planned wireless internet network threatens GPS
A new, ultra-fast wireless internet network is threatening to overpower GPS signals across the U.S. and interfere with everything from airplanes to police cars to consumer navigation devices,…
Month: April 2011
eCampus News March 2011
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When it comes to teaching, who needs experience?
As I think back over a dozen years in the classroom, I cannot recall the exact moment that I changed from an idealistic beginning teacher at the peak…
Targeted nature of email breach worries experts
Think twice next time you get an email from Chase or Citi asking you to log in to your credit card account. The bank may not have sent…
Will GOP scrutiny change the way professors use eMail?
Professors and researchers might shy away from using their university-issued eMail accounts to discuss thorny political issues, turning instead to personal eMail, after a University of Wisconsin professor’s…
Opinion: Unpaid interns, complicit colleges
On college campuses, the annual race for summer internships, many of them unpaid, is well under way, says Ross Perlin for the New York Times.
More customers exposed as big data breach grows
The names and eMails of customers of Citigroup Inc and other large U.S. companies, as well as College Board students, were exposed in a massive and growing data…
Snooki earns $32,000 to speak at Rutgers University
Snooki, whose novel A Shore Thing was released in January, may not win a Nobel Prize for Literature, but she is earning more money than someone with that…
Facebook cozies up to Obama and Congress
In early March, Barack and Michelle Obama appeared in an exclusive Facebook video from the White House. The topic was bullying prevention, and it was by far the…
Does your college have a gambling policy? Don’t bet on it, new site says
Higher-education officials, students, and their parents might be able to better identify the signs of gambling addiction on campus thanks to a new website that provides reams of…