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 Briefly in Tompkins (The Ithaca Journal)
Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:36:46 GMT
The Tompkins County Workers' Center and the Midstate Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO invite the public to the 25th Annual Labor Day picnic from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, Sept. 1, at Stewart Park.
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The Penny Arcade Guys: Gamers Gone Pro (TechNewsWorld.com)
Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:05:12 GMT
They are living the dream -- assuming turning video games into sustenance is your goal. In 1998, high-school best friends Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins were drawing superhero comics in their Spokane, Wash., apartment. Undeterred by their loss in a magazine's comic-strip contest, they'd set up their Web site for their strip, which survived on PayPal donations from readers.
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Cell Phones Make Headway in Education (TechNewsWorld.com)
Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:05:32 GMT
Cell phones have long been anathema in the classroom, banned as a potential distraction, at best, and as a possible vehicle for cheating, at worst. But lately, educators have begun changing their tune on mobile phones. Abilene Christian University will hand out Apple's iPhone 3G smartphone to two-thirds of this year's entering class of 950 freshmen.
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White House Imposes New Security Mandate for Federal Agencies (Washington Post)
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:03:16 GMT
The Bush administration has ordered all federal agencies to adopt new measures to shore up the security of government Web sites, setting a January 2009 deadline for implementing the changes across all dot-gov domains. Agencies will be required to roll out domain name system security extensions (DNSSEC), a set of security add-ons for the domain name system. DNS is a fundamental piece of the ...
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Readin', Writin' and Web 2.0 (TechNewsWorld.com)
Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:11:18 GMT
The enhanced degree of communication that Web 2.0 utilities enable is changing the corporate world, for good or for ill, as enterprises decide whether to reject or embrace concepts like wikis, blogs, social networks and video-sharing. The trend has touched the academic world in similar ways. Web 2.0 utilities have raised concerns about security in nearly all IT fields, and educational ...
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