Academic Network Signs Up For Text Service
News The Joint Academic Network has signed a deal for a mobile-phone text service to connect the 18 million users of its education network. PageOne won the three-year contract to supply the Joint Academic Network (Janet) with its SMS service.
[May 3, 2007, 11:09]
News Burst: Net Goes Down For A Day
News Britain's largest computer network -- the Joint Academic Network (JANET) -- was one of those affected by the outage. JANET provides the Internet link for the UK's academic establishments. The Sanger Centre, an academic research institute was...
[February 23, 1999, 15:46]
UK To Get RFID Educational Centre
News The unit is an attempt to create a hybrid facility that combines the best of academic, industry and government thinking on RFID according to Ed Cowley, director of the RFID Centre. The centre will most likely share facilities with an existing...
[June 24, 2004, 16:27]
Tech Consortium To Focus On Sensors
News But Boston University's Centre for Information Systems and Engineering, which runs the Sensor Network Consortium, sees the need for more outreach to businesses, Yannis Paschalidis, academic director for the consortium, said.
[December 1, 2004, 8:20]
Microsoft Woos Hobbyist Developers
News Under the banner of its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Academic Alliance, Microsoft already provides some software for students in the embedded technology and design fields. News of Microsoft's focus on individual hobbyists and academic teams...
[April 16, 2008, 16:20]
MS/Cambridge To Make Announcement
News Its alumni were key in developing multi-user computers, Unix and "Janet", the Joint Academic Network that linked educational institutions the world over long before the Internet became a household world.
[June 12, 1997, 15:02]
Police Arrest UK Suspect In Anti-ID Theft Operation
News The amount of information gathered during the investigation is approximately two terabytes - the equivalent of an entire university’s academic library. A nineteen year-old man from Camberley, Surrey, was bailed on Wednesday night pending further...
[October 29, 2004, 15:14]
$100 Laptop Project Is 'fundamentally Flawed'
News But Roberts, who as well as heading up Computer Aid spent time as an academic lecturing on the historical introduction of new technologies into societies, said that the OLPC project was also distracting attention from other worthwhile technology...
[June 20, 2006, 15:05]
Adobe Acrobat Security Hole Discovered
News Andrew Cormack, head of the Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert) within the Janet (Joint Academic Network) Security Department, says that the development is a concern just because of the popularity of exchanging PDF files using email.
[August 8, 2000, 10:40]
Skype May Assist Botnet Attacks
News The Communications Research Network is a group of industry experts, academics and policy makers funded by the Cambridge-MIT Institute, a joint venture between Cambridge University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[January 26, 2006, 9:30]
