Two Foundations Join To Improve Third-World Schools

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plan to donate at least $60 million over the next three years to improve schools in third-world countries. The Gates Foundation will give $40 million to the Hewlett Foundation, which will contribute $20 million to the project. Said Hewlett Foundation President Paul […]

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Verizon To Build Fiber-Optic Link To China

Verizon Communications plans to build an undersea, fiber-optic link between the United States and China, partnering with China Telecom, China Netcom, China Unicom, and companies in Korea and Taiwan. Construction is scheduled to begin in early 2007 and end late in 2008. Data transport speeds are predicted to reach 10 gigabits per second for individual […]

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China Enters Copyright Agreement

Chinese authorities this week announced an agreement with four trade associations about the ongoing problem of copyright infringement, which is reportedly rampant in China. The Business Software Alliance and the Publishers Association (both in the United Kingdom), the Association of American Publishers, and the Motion Picture Association of America (in the United States) signed the […]

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Need for Gutenberg eBook and Expanded Access to Information by NOW Generation

There has always been an appreciation of Boyd E (1980) Origins of the Study of Human Growth, Child Study Clinic, University of Oregon Health Science Center: most recently cited in a plenary session of the 15th European Anthropology association Congress in Budapest. This prompted enthusiastic response by colleagues who realize they must have access to […]

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Hackers Access UCLA Records For 800,000

UCLA has sent letters notifying 800,000 faculty, staff, students, and applicants that a database containing their personal information was accessed by a hacker for more than a year. Officials at the university said the database was breached in October 2005 but that the problem was not discovered until late November of this year when university […]

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South African Supercomputer Goes Online

Researchers in South Africa now have access to a new supercomputer at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) offices in Pretoria. Though the computer’s peak output of one teraflop pales in comparison to systems in other parts of the world, it nonetheless provides a new level of computational power to scientists studying several […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter: Part 2 (2006-12-13)

From news at mail1.pglaf.org Wed Dec 13 18:09:58 2006 From: news at mail1.pglaf.org (Project Gutenberg Newsletter) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:09:58 -0800 (PST) Subject: [gweekly] Pt2 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612131808170.14980@mail1.pglaf.org> GWeekly_December_13_part2.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 13 Dec 2006 eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since 1971 – – – – […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2006-12-13)

pgweekly_2006_12_13.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, December 13, 2006 ****eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971**** This Weeks Comments ——————- * Totals for ONLINE BOOKS PAGE updated. * PG Australia — Colin Choat is on currently vacation (possibly until the end of the year) so no new entries for […]

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EDUCAUSE Releases Core Data Results

EDUCAUSE has released results from its annual Core Data Service survey, which questions higher education information technology leaders about various aspects of IT on campus. According to the results, the percentage of colleges and universities that choose to contract any of several IT functions to outside vendors rose for the second straight year, to 57 […]

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Report Estimates Teen Use Of Electronic Media

Results of the 2006 Teen Trend study indicate that U.S. teenagers spend more than 72 hours per week using electronic media, which includes the Internet, television, cell phones, video games, and music. The study, which is in its third year, was conducted by the Harrison Group and sponsored by VNU Business Media. Jim Taylor, vice […]

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PG Other Newsletter: Microsoft Releases Book Search (2006-12-08)

From hart at pglaf.org Fri Dec 8 11:40:45 2006 From: hart at pglaf.org (Michael Hart) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 11:40:45 -0800 (PST) Subject: [gweekly] Microsoft Releases Book Search Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612081138580.23908@mail1.pglaf.org> http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/12/07/1552237.shtml http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6213260.stm Live Search – http://search.live.com/ “Microsoft is releasing its Live Search Books, a rival to Google’s Book Search, in test, or beta, version […]

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