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Amateur Web content 'difficult to monetise'
News Chris Rhoads, the chief executive of consulting firm Enterprise Technology Management Associates and an associate professor at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, said that trying to make an amateur Web site profitable is a risky venture, as it...
[February 28, 2006, 16:30]
CBE honour for Acorn founder
News Andy Hopper, professor of computer technology at Cambridge University, has been made a Commander of the British Empire for services to the computer industry. Professor Hopper received his PhD in the late 1970s for his work on high-speed...
[January 2, 2007, 12:10]
GPL 'minimises risks of open source'
News During a keynote speech at the Open Source Business Conference on Tuesday, the Columbia University Law School professor said that for users of open source software, the "risk perception has diverged from risk reality".
[November 3, 2005, 8:55]
Microsoft rejects argument against appeal
News But Bob Lande, an antitrust professor with University of Baltimore School of Law, said he would be shocked if the Supreme Court accepted Microsoft's request for appeal. Microsoft on Wednesday slammed the government's argument that the Supreme Court...
[September 13, 2001, 10:43]
Do female execs produce better stock returns?
News Newly public companies that have women in senior management enjoy higher initial public offering prices and higher earnings per share than companies that have all-male management teams, according to a study by university of Michigan Business...
[December 1, 2000, 9:10]
Duopoly 'would mean price rises' - economist
News Key Department of Justice witness Kenneth Elzinga, a professor of economics at the University of Virginia and a leading authority on antitrust issues, said in a federal court that the resulting duopoly would give Oracle and SAP the power to raise...
[June 21, 2004, 9:15]
NHS dismisses calls for IT review
News Last October the group of 23 computer experts claimed urgent action was needed to put the £12bn National Programme for IT (NPfIT) back on track, with their spokesperson, Oxford University visiting professor Martyn Thomas, warning that the project...
[February 6, 2007, 11:12]
Expert: Windows can be broken into parts
News Andrew Appel, the 14th witness in the proceedings to determine a remedy for Microsoft's antitrust violations and a computer science professor at Princeton University, began his testimony here late on Tuesday before a sparsely filled courtroom.
[April 11, 2002, 7:31]
McAfee: How cybercrooks get under your skin
News The vendor worked with University of Leicester forensic psychologist Professor Clive Hollin to analyse why users fall for online scams. Security firm McAfee has said that cybercriminals are using increasingly sophisticated social-engineering...
[June 26, 2007, 13:43]
Sharman witness: Tech can protect copyright
News When asked by Justice Murray Wilcox on what he thought should be the solution to the P2P "dilemma", the University of Berkeley professor of computer science and information management said that technology is the answer to keep users from...
[December 13, 2004, 11:30]
The Digital Person review
Reviews Solove, a law professor at George Washington University, logically enough focuses more on the legal landscape and the present. The closest book on the market to The Digital Person is probably Simson Garfinkel's Database Nation (O'Reilly, 2000).
[June 8, 2005, 12:05]
US government loses crypto ruling
News We are another giant step along the way of getting rid of the export regulations," said Cindy Cohn, attorney for plaintiff and University of Illinois Professor Daniel Bernstein. Though the ruling technically renders moot all export controls, the...
[May 7, 1999, 14:34]
C++ creator: it's bigger than ever
News Bjarne Stroustrup, who currently works as a professor at Texas A&M University and is creator of the C++ programming language, said in an interview at the ACCU conference in Oxford on Wednesday, that it is a misperception that C++ is being...
[April 22, 2005, 14:20]
Experts: US has hazy grasp of cloud computing
News Cloud computing will "transform how we do computing, and not in 10 years but in four or five", said Mike Nelson, a visiting professor at Georgetown University's Center for Communication, Culture, and Technology and a former technology policy...
[September 15, 2008, 12:20]
Down with standards
News Glushko, an adjunct professor at the University of California at Berkeley, speaks from experience. Robert Glushko has a problem with standards. There is a clear demand from customers for products that work together based on widely used standards.
[April 28, 2004, 16:35]
Tight job market encourages innovation
News Associate Professor Jenny Edwards, from the faculty of information technology at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) said she had noticed an increasing number of people trying to find work through people they knew.
[January 21, 2002, 16:02]
Internet makes children lazy, says academic
News The government's drive to incorporate the Internet into education is undermining a child's ability to retain knowledge, a leading professor in psychology has warned. Dr Susan Blackmore, lecturer in psychology at the University of West England in...
[October 12, 2001, 14:15]
Professor reveals EverQuest's 'inherent sexism'
News Edward Castronova, associate professor of economics at California State University at Fullerton, previously calculated that the fictional world of Norrath in "EverQuest" has a lively economy that ranks 77th among the nations of the world.
[June 24, 2003, 8:57]
Apple suit under fire
News In support of its motion to dismiss, Think Secret has filed statements from journalism professor Thomas Goldstein of the University of California at Berkeley and former San Jose Mercury News columnist Dan Gillmor discussing the implications on...
[March 8, 2005, 8:55]
Microsoft settles Bristol lawsuit
News You can only fight so many wars at once, no matter what you think their merits are," said Bob Lande, an antitrust professor with the University of Baltimore Law School. Microsoft and Bristol Technology on Wednesday abruptly ended their long...
[February 22, 2001, 9:05]
