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Blogging Can Get You Fired
Voice of America News September 27, 2005
From time to time, we've told you about the blogging phenomenon. "Blogs" are web logs, or personal websites on the Internet, on which people write about everything from politics to pepper-sauce recipes. Some of these sites are obscure; others get thousands and thousands of "hits," as they're called, from faithful readers -- including other bloggers.
Arizona High School Chooses Laptops Over Textbooks
VOA News October 20, 2005
A new high school opened in Vail, Arizona, this past July with all the resources you would expect to find in classrooms these days -- except textbooks. Instead, every student received an Apple laptop computer… making Empire High School a pioneer in the growing use of technology in American education. More...
Sun Microsystems Teams Up with Google in Possible Challenge to Microsoft
VOA News October 5, 2005
Google, the world's largest computer search company, will promote word processing and office software from Sun Microsystems.
Some analysts say the alliance is a step toward challenging Microsoft's dominance of the software industry.
At a news conference late Tuesday, Sun and Google offered a vision of working together to build the next generation of the Internet, but gave few specific details.
Security Issues May Be a High Priority for Internet 2
VOA News September 30, 2005
The Internet has connected the world like no other technology has ever been able to do. But the network has a dark side of viruses and bugs, hackers and criminals.
Naheda Zayed examines the making of the Internet, and the challenges of re-making it to create a safer global network.
