Report: Half of High School Classes Could Be Online by 2019 - Dave Nagel, THE Journal
Sat, 17 May 2008 20:05 GMT - Low-cost delivery and tailored learning opportunities could drive up to half of all high school courses online by 2019, according to a report from researchers that's set to appear in the summer issue of Education Next, published out of the Hoover Institution, the public policy research center at Stanford University. The researchers--Clayton M. Christensen, Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of

Study: Top Web Application Vulnerabilities Remain Unfixed - THE Journal
Sat, 17 May 2008 20:05 GMT - Organizations still aren't doing enough to protect their data from Web application vulnerabilities, according to a study released Tuesday by security firm Cenzic. The study, Application Security Trends Report, Q1 2008, identified "1,409 unique published vulnerabilities for the first quarter of 2008, with Web technology vulnerabilities comprising 70 percent of the vulnerability volume and 65

Osage County: Security in a Small School District - Dian Schaffhauser, THE Journal
Sat, 17 May 2008 20:04 GMT - The Osage County R-II School District in Osage County, Missouri, is tiny--600 to 650 students, according to Richard Becker, technology coordinator. Yet it faces the same computer security challenges of larger districts with far fewer resources--a scarcity of resources that includes staffing. Becker himself makes up half of the entire technical team. The district is located in Linn, a rural town

Spam Moves to Cellphones and Gets More Invasive - LAURA M. HOLSON, New York Times
Sat, 17 May 2008 20:03 GMT - If you thought spam on your computer was a bother, brace yourself: spammers want to find you on your cellphone. One of the text messages that Taber Lightfoot received. Cellphones have become consumers? most personal technological devices. Some industry executives, along with consumer groups and security experts, are concerned that unwanted text messages on phones will be an even greater

Welcome to the social mess? - Caroline McCarthy, CNET
Sat, 17 May 2008 20:03 GMT - Managing a bunch of different log-ins and passwords suddenly seems easy and straightforward. Within a matter of days, some of the biggest names on the Web announced new projects that all have a roughly similar aim of making it possible for Web users to have a single social-media identity across the Internet--"data portability," as the general term has come to be known. MySpace.com was first out

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