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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Why women quit technology careers (Computerworld)

What if half the men in science, engineering and technology roles dropped out at midcareer? That would surely be perceived as a national crisis. Yet more than half the women in those fields leave -- most of them during their mid- to late 30s.

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X-rated SMS case gives employees some privacy guarantees (Ars Technica)

A ruling by the 9th Circuit Court has provided users of electronic messaging services with extensive privacy guarantees in a ruling that focuses on personal use of a job-related service.

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