Microsoft swoops into schools to teach P2P morality
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Down with the kids Teenage intellectual property (IP) law swotters are less likely to illegally download music and film files from the internet than their clueless counterparts, Microsoft claimed yesterday.â¦
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Songwriter Guy Chambers helps schools introduce lessons on music piracy and copyright.
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Snapbridge Software brings content management to the little guys.
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The recording industry debuts a new carrot-and-stick approach for dealing with file-ripping students and the colleges and ISPs who know them. By Eliot Van Buskirk.
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The social networking site -- once the exclusive domain of students and
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Internet-ready schools do little to protect kids from seemingly safe sites whose only reason to exist is invasive marketing aimed directly at young web surfers. These corporate-sponsored 'advergames' look interactive but the endgame is 'buy.'
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Young people are now the savviest of the tech-savvy, as likely to demand a speedy broadband connection as to download music onto an iPod, or upload digital photos to their Web logs.
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The RIAA unveils P2PLawsuits.com, a site that allows people turned in by their universities or ISPs for copyright infringement to settle their cases in advance of due process. In Listening Post
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Back to school for many kids means  "back to Internet access" in classes where the best of  filtering software is not foolproof, particularly against  seemingly harmless Web sites used for invasive marketing.
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Microsoft will spend $235.5 million in schools worldwide over the next five years, part of a plan to triple the number of students and teachers trained in its software programs to up to 270 million by 2013.The money, part of the Partners in Learning program, will go toward training and skills programs in areas with limited IT training and equipment, said Orlando Ayala, vice president of the Unlimited Potential Group, part of Microsoft&#39;s education division, on Tuesday.The announcement is one of several expected to come from the Government Leaders Forum (GLF), an annual conference where Microsoft courts educators and government officials. Microsoft CEO Bill Gates will keynote at the GLF on Wednesday in Berlin.Microsoft&#39;s investment shows how important it views developing markets to its future business. Last year, Microsoft introduced the Student Innovation Suite, which includes the XP Starter Edition plus educational applications, for $3 for qualifying countries.Microsoft faces heated competition from companies supporting the open-source OS Linux and associated software in developing countries. &quot;I think as a company we welcome choice,&quot; Ayala said. &quot;Frankly, we welcome the competition.&quot;The company&#39;s educational funding comes with a hitch: &quot;Of course, that includes the fact they [the schools] use Windows,&quot; Ayala said.That approach contradicts one recommendation contained in a study of software usage in Europe completed in November 2006.Presented to the European Commission, the study concluded that it&#39;s better for students to learn general IT skills rather than just proprietary software.Otherwise, it&#39;s less likely that software from other vendors will be used if people are only trained in programs from one vendor, said Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, of the United Nations University-Merit in Maastricht in the Netherlands. Ghosh is one of the authors of the study.Microsoft&#39;s educational donations look less generous when the company spends &quot;it in order to create a market that&#39;s forced into buying its products,&quot; he said. But Ghosh added it&#39;s hard to argue that struggling schools &quot;should refuse the computers altogether if there&#39;s no money.&quot;Microsoft has recently made significant deals in developing areas. A nongovernmental organization in Russia is buying 1 million units of the Student Innovation Suite over the next five years, Ayala said. The company is also supplying 50,000 units of the same software to Mexico and 150,000 to Libya, he said.While Microsoft is nudging consumers and businesses in developed markets to use its latest Windows Vista operating system, XP will remain the OS the company supports for low-cost laptops such as the Asus Eee and Intel&#39;s Classmate PC, Ayala said.The reason is XP has a smaller footprint than Vista, Ayala said, referring to factors such as how much memory the OS uses and the size of the OS on a PC&#39;s hard drive.Microsoft is still working through some of the &quot;technical limitations&quot; that remain in&#160;putting XP on the XO, the green PC from the One Laptop Per Child project, Ayala said.
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Microsoft Corp  unveiled a new  initiative on Monday that will give college and high school  students around the world free access to technology tools used  to develop and design software.
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TODAY'S LESSON: Nearly all U.S. schools are connected to the Internet, according to a new study, but they still lag behind most of society in using computer technology.
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The computer maker and a nonprofit organization have launched a project to teach people about spyware and how to avoid it. By Thomas Claburn.
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Blog: Educational software company Blackboard offers Scholar as a social-networking site for academics.
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Savvy teachers individualize instruction using Internet and other tech tools.
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Vista adoption in schools 'high risk' The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) has signed a secrecy clause with Microsoft which prevents it from disclosing the prices schools are paying for software licences.â¦
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Schools will increase spending on open-source software by 2012, but that doesn't mean proprietary software will be left in the dark, according to a new report