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Publishers Criticize Professors For Copyright Violations

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The Association of American Publishers (AAP) is calling on colleges and universities to take steps to address what they see as rampant copyright abuse by faculty. According to the AAP, faculty who post protected content online for use in their courses cost the publishing industry at least $20 million each year in lost revenues. Before […]

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Dodging The Censors

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Researchers at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto have developed software that they hope will allow Internet users in nations that practice censorship to have full access to the Web. Available as of December 1, the software, called psiphon, operates using social networking principles. Users in countries without censorship will download the application, […]

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Sloan Report Finds Growth in Online Students

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The latest survey of online learning by the Sloan Consortium reported that about 3.2 million students took at least one online course from a degree-granting institution in fall 2005, double the number who did in 2002. The report, issued jointly by the Sloan Consortium and the College Board, defines an online course as one in […]

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Lower Phone Prices Boost Number of Mobile Users

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[People in these countries pay only 2c per minute. Internet prices are comparably low]Market researcher iSuppli claims that the number of mobile phone subscribers worlwide will hit 2.6 billion this year and 4 billion by 2010, largely because of ultra-low-cost handsets. The growth in users is driven by new subscribers in developing nations like India […]

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Big U.S. Web Sites See Mostly International Visitors

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More than three-fourths of Web visitors to large U.S. Web sites such as Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo come from overseas. The three companies are among 14 of the top 25 U.S. Web sites that draw more foreign traffic than U.S.-based traffic, according to market research company ComScore Networks. In 10 years, the U.S. share of […]

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Community College Introduces iPod Program

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The Community College of Southern Nevada (CCSN) is launching an iPod program to try to find out if the devices can assist in student learning. Students in the five or six classes in the pilot program will be loaned iPods by the institution. Faculty in those courses will augment the syllabus with podcasts of lectures […]

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Organization Identifies Worst Internet Censors

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Paris-based Reporters Without Borders has issued a list of 13 countries it says are the most egregious censors of Internet speech. On the list are Belarus, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. According to the organization, these countries stifle online speech they deem subversive or threatening […]

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Rumsfeld War Crimes Charges Files In Germany

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Headline News Avoided by Most of the Major U.S. Media   Ousted U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is being charged in German courts via a complaint filed by the international Center for Constitutional Rights. Also charged are Alberto Gonzales, who was previously White House Counsel and is now U.S. Attorney General, along with former […]

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ASE Expected to Clarify Online Accessibility Requirements

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A lawsuit filed against Target is expected to establish an important ruling concerning the level of access Web site operators are required to provide to users with disabilities. Specifically, the suit alleges that Target’s Web site failed to make its site accessible to screen readers, which help visually impaired users read and navigate online.   […]

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Spanish Judge Says Downloading is Legal

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A judge in Spain has dismissed a copyright infringement case, saying that the practice of trading songs over the Internet does not constitute a crime. In his ruling, Judge Paz Aldecoa said that sharing files online is a “socially accepted and widely practiced behavior” intended merely “to obtain copies for private use.” Because the man […]

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Report Predicts Growth in Online Education

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A new report from Eduventures suggests that the market for online education has considerable room to grow. In a survey of 2,000 people who are planning to enroll in college, 19 percent were interested in an online-only program, 18 percent in mostly online programs, and 14 percent in programs that offer equal time online and […]

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