Posts Tagged ‘ college ’

Email Breach At Email Marketer Epsilon Affects TiVo, Citi, Marriott And More

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Email Breach At Email Marketer Epsilon Affects TiVo, Citi, Marriott And More

photo © 2006 Gene Tew | more info (via: Wylio ) In case you haven’t already received the ominous sounding email, data held by email marketing firm Epsilon was compromised earlier this week  – the hack apparently executed by one person. The breach, which keeps broadening in scope as more companies inform their...

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Danny Sullivan On How Viable It Is To Build Your Business On Google, Among Other Things

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Danny Sullivan On How Viable It Is To Build Your Business On Google, Among Other Things

The search engine wars have been heightened since January, when TechCrunch contributor Vivek Wadhwa wrote about why we need a better system of search , because his college students could no longer find the information they were looking for due to spammy results. Since then, both JC Penney and DecorMyEyes have been called...

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In Depth: Linux in education: a genuine alternative

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In Depth: Linux in education: a genuine alternative

Using free software in education is not just about saving money. It's also about preserving choice, not locking a student's experience into a certain way of doing something. With Linux, there's no vendor lock-in. Free software is more likely to be open-standards compliant, and it's going to be more open to different languages,...

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Colleges Caution Against "Welcome Class of 2015" Facebook Groups

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Colleges Caution Against "Welcome Class of 2015" Facebook Groups

A word of caution to incoming college freshmen: Beware of Facebook pages inviting you to join your college's "Welcome" group, as these may not be groups organized and authorized by your university. Thanks to investigative work from staff at a number of colleges, it seems that a company called RoomSurf - formerly URoomSurf...

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