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A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday that a Princeton University computer scientist and his research team had filed against the recording industry and the U.S. Justice Department over the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, saying there was no “real controversy” between the litigants.
Apple Computer Chief Executive Steve Jobs on Tuesday criticized Microsoft’s plan to give $1 billion in computers and software to schools to settle antitrust claims, saying it would give Microsoft an unfair advantage in the education market.
Despite its “impressive” impact in helping the nation’s schools connect to the internet, the eRate remains a work in progress, according to a new report from the Benton Foundation and the Educational Development Center’s Center for Children and Technology (CCT).
Institutions weigh legal issues and inconvenience of tracking down students who share files
The bankruptcy auction for the assets of Lernout & Hauspie, a once highflying Belgian speech technology company, started yesterday afternoon at a New York law office. The proceedings, which could be over as soon as today, are expected to produce only a fraction of the hundreds of millions of dollars that Lernout & Hauspie owes.
The United Nations launched Tuesday a new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Task Force, a group intended to form broad partnerships to advance the United Nations’ development goals and bring the benefits of technology to developing nations.
Gov. Jane Dee Hull opens a special session of the Legislature Tuesday, Nov. 13, looking to close a potential $1.6 billion shortfall in state revenue over this fiscal year and next. Among her stated principles are no cuts in K-12 education funding, no increases in taxes, and maximizing federal reimbursements to the state, including health […]
Graduate students who are teaching in the Division of Continuing Education this semester voted Nov. 7 to join the Graduate Employee Organization, an affiliate of the United Auto Workers Local 2322.
College administrators are worrying that Congress, preoccupied by terrorism and the economy, won’t get around to completing legislation that would give online education some of the same copyright exemptions that traditional courses have. Although the bill moved quickly through the Senate this summer, it has since been stalled in a House of Representatives committee.
The FCC today modified a number of its Digital Television (DTV) transition rules, including broadcast service area replication, maximization and channel election rules, in order to enable more broadcasters to get on the air with a digital signal and to help speed the DTV transition.