Edupage, December 10, 2004
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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:06:43 -0700
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Subject: Edupage, December 10, 2004
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TOP STORIES FOR FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2004
Penn State Urges Moving from IE
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear P2P Case
iPod Requirement in Secondary School
Ellison Promises Strong Support for PeopleSoft Customers
PENN STATE URGES MOVING FROM IE
Officials in the Information Technology Services department at
Pennsylvania State University have sent a notice to students suggesting
that they switch to a browser other than Internet Explorer (IE) to
increase the security of their computers. Recent reports in the media
about IE vulnerabilities, as well as warnings from the Computer
Emergency and Response Team at Carnegie Mellon University, prompted
Penn State's recommendation that students look at browsers including
Firefox, Safari, and Opera. A spokesperson for the university said,
"We're not telling people to wipe off IE, because you need IE to do
operating-system updates." As part of a two-month campaign to increase
computer security across campus, however, the university is urging
students to examine other browsers and to consider the benefits they
might provide for increased protection from malicious code. Also
included in the security campaign are reminders for students to install
firewalls and antivirus software, to keep those applications updated,
and to install operating-system updates regularly.
CNET, 9 December 2004
http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5485834.html
SUPREME COURT AGREES TO HEAR P2P CASE
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case concerning whether
companies that develop P2P applications should be held responsible for
copyright infringement that takes place on those networks. The
recording industry has repeatedly asked the courts to find companies
such as StreamCast, which distributes the Morpheus software, and
Grokster liable for music piracy, but a succession of rulings have
favored the P2P companies. In those decisions, the courts have
consistently invoked the Sony-Betamax decision by the Supreme Court,
which made VCRs legal despite their ability to make illegal copies of
copyrighted movies and television programs. Some observers believe that
if the Supreme Court overturns the Sony-Betamax decision, all manner of
electronic equipment will be subject to the decision. Fred von Lohmann,
an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation who has represented
StreamCast, said, "This case will ... [determine] the future of a whole
host of future digital products." Arguments will likely be heard in
March, and a decision in the case is expected by June.
ZDNet, 10 December 2004
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5487491.html
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IPOD REQUIREMENT IN SECONDARY SCHOOL
The Brearley School, a private girls' school in New York, has
instituted an iPod requirement for about 300 students in grades 7
through 12. Some higher education institutions have similar
requirements, including Duke University and Georgia College and State
University, but this is reportedly the first such program at the
secondary level. Students at Brearley will use the devices primarily
for foreign languages and classics. Students can use their iPods to
keep audio diaries, practice speaking foreign languages, and download
and listen to lessons and other course content. Although the
educational value of the technology remains an unknown quantity,
teachers at Brearley noted that the "wow" factor of the iPods for
teenage girls would likely benefit the initiative. At Duke, which
issued iPods to 1,650 incoming freshmen this fall, the devices are also
used in foreign language classes, among others. Lisa Merschel, who
teaches Spanish at Duke, said she does not "necessarily see a
correlation between using the iPod and an increased fluency in the
language." Still, said Merschel, the iPods "helped me to see how [the
students] were progressing as a class."
New York Times, 9 December 2004 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/09/technology/circuits/09ipod.html
ELLISON PROMISES STRONG SUPPORT FOR PEOPLESOFT CUSTOMERS
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said this week that if the proposed takeover
of PeopleSoft is completed, Oracle would "oversupport PeopleSoft
customers." Oracle has been working for more than a year to acquire
PeopleSoft, saying that a combined company could better compete against
SAP in the business software market. Current PeopleSoft customers have
expressed concern, however, that if Oracle does acquire PeopleSoft, its
customers will see significantly reduced levels of support and product
enhancement. In an effort to address such concerns and preserve the
PeopleSoft customer base, Ellison has said that Oracle will support
PeopleSoft applications until 2013. This week, Ellison said Oracle
could provide better support to PeopleSoft customers than even
PeopleSoft, and next week Oracle will seek to have PeopleSoft's
"poison pill" eliminated by a Delaware court. Officials from PeopleSoft
continue to maintain that Oracle's actions are intended simply to
destroy PeopleSoft's business.
Reuters, 8 December 2004
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7033748
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