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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Recently, a unique coalition of libraries, foundations, nonprofit organizations, and media and Internet companies launched the ConnectNet/Conectado campaign – the most comprehensive national campaign to help bridge the digital divide. Computer skills equal economic opportunity for the next generation. Yet millions of young people – especially low-income, Hispanic and African American youth […]
Prof. David S. Touretzky, a computer scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University, says he has never watched a movie on DVD, much less copied one illegally. So why is the movie industry calling him a pirate?
International Datacasting is pleased to announce a series of steps to strengthen its management and presence in the US and international markets.
Mar 29, 2001 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) — Education and Employment Secretary David Blunkett today welcomed key appointments to the e-Universities Project. The appointments are for Directors of the holding company and members of the Committee for Academic Quality. The Secretary of State allocated GBP62 million towards setting up and developing the e-Universities Project from […]
The Japanese Education, Science, and Technology Ministry has decided to allow universities to grant credit for online courses.
University Park, Pa. — Consumers can look forward to kinder, gentler market survey techniques — and fewer of those annoying phone calls during dinner — if market researchers take heed to a Penn State researchers recent findings about ways to use the Internet. Dr. Frank E. Ritter, associate professor of information science and technology, says, […]
HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) — At a computer room in Havana University’s foreign languages department, students wait patiently for slots they booked in advance to use one of six machines connected to the Internet.
A discussion of this week’s case before the Supreme Court that pits freelance journalists against big media on the issue of digital rights was webcast live on March 27. The discussion featured Laurence Tribe, who argues for the publishers before the Supreme Court in oral arguments today, Kenneth Starr, who also represents the publishers, Jonathan […]
Nearly a year after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) passed guidelines for protecting children’s privacy on the Internet, many Web sites aren’t living up to the letter or spirit of the law, according to a report from the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
Details of a £13m investment to provide schools in Northern Ireland with 6,000 laptop computers and almost 1,000 digital projectors has been unveiled.