Travelers' Laptops May Be Detained At Border (Washington Post)

Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop computer or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed.

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Diary of a deliberately spammed housewife (Network World)

The Global S.P.A.M. Diaries was an experiment by McAfee to find out what would happen if 50 volunteers from around the world put aside common sense and answered every e-mail.

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The Wharton School Beefs Up Data Center with Blade Servers (Campus Technology)

The new data center at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania will allow the school to triple both its mailbox quota and the storage capacity available to faculty and students, as well as provide researchers the ability to operate a Linux grid cluster powered by blade servers.

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FCC finally prepares to investigate embedded ads on TV (Ars Technica)

The FCC has, at long last, opened a proceeding on what to do about "paid placement" advertising in TV shows. The FCC Chairman says Americans should know when someone is trying to sell them something, no matter how sly the reference.

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Temple To Deploy Wireless LAN Across 8 Campuses (Campus Technology)

Temple University, with 34,000 students, has begun deploying a new wireless network with equipment from Meru Networks that by the end of 2008 will cover all eight of its campuses in the greater Philadelphia area.

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Wily Teens Find Pools With Google Earth (Digital Trends)

Some British teens are using Goggle Earth to find houses with pools then trespass and hold illegal pool parties.

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