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Universities Listening To Talks Of Blanket Music Licensing At The ISP Level

Warner Music Group's Jim Griffen, who has been a vocal proponent of blanket music licensing at the ISP level, is out pitching the idea to some of America's top universities.

Google Seeking Relationships With Alumni Organizations

In all honesty, this development turned out to be less exciting than it originally seemed.  Still, it's at least somewhat interesting to note that Google intends to establish relationships with university alumni programs.  Google Alumni Relations Program   Manager  (Screenshot Credit: Google Jobs) 

Google Courting More Students With Email

Google's serious about creating relationships with the greater Academia – its founders were collegiate all-stars building printers out of Legos, and of course badly-named search engines (Google was once called BackRub, we imagine because that was Larry Page's best pickup line) – ahem, as more and more universities turn their email systems over to the search engine company.

File-Sharing Could Get University Funding Cut?

So as state-funded university tuition rises faster than the inflation rate, grants are becoming nonexistent, and students are actually looking abroad to complete their education cheaper and in half the time, Congressmen cozy with the RIAA are threatening to cut their funding more if they don't play ball with the recording labels.

Google Ad Policy Cracks Down On Plagiarism

Advertisements for weapons, drugs, and prostitutes have been banned from Google.  All right, fair enough.  But now advertisements for essay-writing services will also be forbidden, and while more than a few people have raised their eyebrows, others have cheered.

Google Book Search Goes to Germany

The Bavarian State Library has decided to partake in Googles project to scan books from the world's great collections.  As one of the largest libraries in the German-speaking world, the library has around nine million volumes and will make around one million books available to Google search. 

On-line Universities and Degrees - Find the Right One for You

The first step to finding the right online university is to decide what degree you want. Do you want an undergraduate or graduate degree?

Gates Admonishes US Universities

Citing tougher US immigration laws, the proliferation of Asian (specifically Chinese) engineering, and a declining number of US engineering grads, Bill Gates issued a warning to educational institutions that the US is in danger of losing its leading technological status.