Posts from Wired Campus
Bringing a legal music-downloading service to campus is fairly easy, but getting students to use that service can be a tough sell. So say administrators at Tufts University, which started offering student subscriptions to Cdigix, a provider of digital music and movies, in November. Since Cdigix…
They’ve already made their mark on political punditry and technology reporting. Now Web logs are taking on another juicy topic: the world of college basketball. A number of fledgling blogs now offer surprisingly comprehensive coverage of the sport, including The Mid-Majority, which chronicles its…
If you make it through this post without stopping to send e-mail, check sports scores, or do some online shopping, congratulations: You’re staying focused when many people might not.
The crowning jewel of the Smithsonian Institution’s gem collection was once part of the crown jewels of France, according to a group of researchers. The team used computer modeling software to show that the Hope Diamond was cut from the “French Blue,” a 69-carat stone that was bought by King Louis…
With Google wannabees flooding the online marketplace, it’s hardly surprising that a search engine designed for college students would pop up. But IceRocket, designed by a student at Texas Christian University, boasts a few features that might interest undergrads: Visitors can browse an online…
David Duffield, founder and former chairman of PeopleSoft Inc., has donated $15.5-million from a foundation he started to save stray pets in New York City. PeopleSoft, which sold human-resource and business-finance software to many colleges, was recently bought out by the Oracle Corporation after a…
Computers at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor were hit hard by Marketscore, a piece of spyware that can retrieve users’ personal information, but campus officials say they’re getting the problem under control. Administrators will block about 500 infected machines from the Internet and…
Could iPods turn college students into radio stars? A growing number of dorm-room DJs are “podcasting”—recording their own radio programs and making them available for listeners to download to portable MP3 players.
The Internet has ushered in a new era for switchboard operators at Northern Illinois University: Instead of simply redirecting calls, the operators are now fielding questions on local businesses and scheduled events, and answering those queries with the help of an internal Web site. (Northern Star)
The University of Texas at El Paso has unveiled a new fiber-optic link that connects it to Internet2’s high-speed research network and Mexico’s Internet2 equivalent. It’s the first link between American and Mexican computers owned by a university, according to campus officials.