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UNC students shy away from illegal file sharing

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found a way to deter students from illegally using P2P file sharing applications, and it is saving $40,000 annually as a result. Network Access

Salesforce's Chatter cutting out chitchat at Fresno Pacific University

Fresno Pacific University in California is slowly rolling out Salesforce.com's ( NYSE: CRM ) Chatter social platform on a department-by-department basis to facilitate recruitment efforts. The

Mass. college lowers IT spending after network upgrade

Dean College in Franklin, Mass., got a relatively early start in wireless networking, offering access to faculty and students in the late 1990s. A decade or so later, rising network demands brought

Universities' secrets for layered security

Universities, famous for housing early adopters and risk-takers, can offer corporations a few lessons about securing the network. With a wide variety of user constituencies coming and going, vast

Pepperdine University's defense against the onslaught of devices

Innovations on college campuses often act as harbingers of enterprise technology deployments. At Pepperdine University, the IT security team is dealing with the growing variety of user devices on the

A real world example of student developers and testers

A few weeks ago, I wrote about an initiative between Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MSCU) and Maverick Software Consulting, which pairs computer science students with U.S. companies in

Surprising lessons from a Florida college's iPad deployment

At Florida State College at Jacksonville, the CEO, CFO, campus presidents, administrators, IT staff, and some faculty and students have been given iPads. The college, which has plans to roll out 1000

IT lessons from colleges and universities

Colleges and universities sometimes serve as test beds for technologies that later become the norm in enterprise IT. NetworkWorld's John Cox takes a look at initiatives underway at 10 institutions of

UCrime aims to make college campuses safer

Entire cities unto themselves, college campuses have confusing address systems, transient populations, and their own public safety departments, making it difficult for students, parents, and faculty