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  • Passwords Aren’t Enough: 3 Ways to Bolster User Authentication

    Thursday, May 15th, 2008

    Many organizations are decreasing their reliance on user names and passwords for user authentication. They are also learning more about the benefits of deploying strong user authentication to increase the level of assurance for online identities as part of an overall approach to securing access to information and managing risk. Companies should select and deploy strong user authentication solutions based on their assessment of the optimal balance between security, total cost of ownership and alignment

    by Derek E. Brink and Tom Karol

    Read Tech News World

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  • Readers Not Wanted: Student Writers Fight to Keep Their Work Off the Web

    Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

    Mark Brazaitis worries that his university may sabotage the literary careers of his students.

    As director of the creative-writing program at West Virginia University, Mr. Brazaitis oversees the training of about 30 graduate students, who hope to become published authors. At the end of their three years in the program, they hand in their magnum opuses, master’s theses that could one day appear in print in literary journals or books.

    by Andrea L. Foster

    read The Chronicle of Higher Education

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  • Two New Ways to Explore the Virtual Universe, in Vivid 3-D

    Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

    The skies may be the next frontier in travel, yet not even the wealthiest space tourist can zoom out to, say, the Crab Nebula, the Trapezium Cluster or Eta Carinae, a star 100 times more massive than the Sun and 7,500 light-years away.

    But those galactic destinations and thousands of others can now be toured and explored at the controls of a computer mouse, with the constellations, stars and space dust displayed in vivid detail and animated imagery across the screen. The project, the WorldWide Telescope, is the culmination of years of work by researchers at Microsoft, and the Web site and free downloadable software are available starting on Tuesday, at www.WorldWideTelescope.org.

    by Steve Lohr

    Read The New York Times

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  • Gaming’s Play for Social Networks

    Monday, May 12th, 2008

    Long before social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook set up shop online, there was a social element to playing video games. Gamers have always congregated together, extolling or deriding the merits of one game over another, participating in tournaments and broadcasting their gaming exploits and accomplishments. However, the flap that erupted in January when board game makers Hasbro and Mattel tried to the put the kibosh on “Scrabulous,” a Facebook application very similar to the “Scrabble” word game, highlighted a growing trend — social networks’ gaming potential.

    by Walaika Haskins

    Read Tech News World

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  • Facebook eases freshmen fears, foster friendship

    Friday, May 9th, 2008

    Wellesley, Massachusetts (CNN) — Sang-Hee Min and her college roommate met each other this July and began planning for their year together. During the summer, they chatted about shared interests, discussed ground rules for living together, and agreed on what to pack.

    But as their relationship grew closer, the two girls couldn’t have been farther apart — Min lived in Seattle, her roommate in New York. This fall, when they arrive at Wellesley College as entering freshmen, they’ll finally see each other in person for the first time.

    Min is just one of the many college freshmen who will be stepping onto campuses this fall with a jump-start on their new social lives, thanks to friendships they’ve formed during the summer on the social networking site Facebook.com.

    by Johanna Peace

    Read CNN Students

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