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The Air Force awarded the 10-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract June 4. It provides for the development and production of the P5 combat training system. The system is a “rangeless” air-to-air and air-to-ground training system that will support real-time air combat training for the Air Force and Navy. Read the Full Article
It’s an old snake-oil sales pitch, but it’s wrapped in new layers of technical sophistication and Internet marketing: the phony diploma. Cheap and real-looking, it’s now backed up by a supporting cast of other ingenious fakes. Read the Full Article
The May 15 initiative—launched in conjunction with 17 different law en advertisement forcement and consumer protection agencies—calls on businesses and other institutions, including schools, to fortify their networks against such infiltrations by closing off “open relays”—technological loopholes that let third-party internet scam artists route spam across their servers, thereby disguising the messages’ true origin. Read […]
But advocates for quicker transfer of e-mail, Web site content and music files, take note: Peter K. Pitsch is on the case.Read the Full Article
Microsoft Corp., which agreed to pay $1.1 billion to settle antitrust claims in California, said Thursday that it dropped a provision in the agreement that would have given the company’s software to schools at no charge.Read the Full Article
Mr. Kirven will remain a Board member and will continue to provide advice, support and growth opportunities to the Company.Read the Full Article
This paper is the keynote address given at the Web-Wise 2003 Conference on Thursday, February 27, 2003 in Washington, D.C.Read the Full Article
The recording industry and operators of educational and noncommercial Web sites have settled on royalty rates for broadcasting music over the Internet, circumventing a looming arbitration battle, the recording industry said Tuesday.Read the Full Article
SCO claims Big Blue unlawfully allowed proprietary Unix computer code to be copied into the open-source operating system Linux. The controversy is important to ed tech because the outcome could affect the future of Linux, which has been growing in popularity for servers in schools, colleges, and government agencies. Read the Full Article
The law imposes substantial student-data demands and other technology-oriented requirements on state and local school systems. Read the Full Article