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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:34:00 EST
From: wiredcampus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: wiredcampus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: 11/11/2004 - The Chronicle's Wired Campus Newsletter


THE WIRED CAMPUS

A daily glance at education-technology headlines
for Thursday, November 11.

A service of The Chronicle of Higher Education

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"PeopleSoft Rejects Latest Oracle Bid as Inadequate"
PeopleSoft officials said no to Oracle's offer to buy the
company for about $9.2-billion, saying the software company is
worth more than that. Oracle's chief said that the company would
not raise its bid and that it was now up to PeopleSoft's
shareholders to decide if the deal should go through.
(The New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/11/technology/11soft.html?oref=log
in

"Microsoft Launches Its Own Web Search Tool"
The beta version of Microsoft's Internet search engine debuted
this week, culling documents from some 5 billion Web pages.
(Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyI
D=6786938

"Spoofed E-Mails Target U. Kansas Students"
A student at the University of Kansas fell victim to an e-mail
scheme that tricks users into giving out their bank-account
information.
(University Daily Kansan)
http://www.kansan.com/GetStory.aspx?id=2346b6a2-34f2-4a9b-b374-7d
addf76ccaa

"Oakland U. Works to Rebound From Major Computer Attack"
Technology officials at the institution, in Rochester, Mich.,
are still struggling to restore computer operations after a
hacker gained control of more than a dozen servers and numerous
desktops on the university's network over the weekend. The
intruder deleted critical system files and left the machines
mostly unusable.
(Crain's Detroit Business)
http://www.crainsdetroit.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?newsId=4897

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