A group of researchers at Penn State University said that light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs) might prove to be a viable alternative to using LEDs (light-emitting diodes) in color flat-panel monitors.

While it's still a relatively slow and clumsy process, surfing the Web or checking e-mail via hand-held devices such as wireless phones or personal digital assistants is catching on.

A survey by Websense Inc. and Harris Interactive found that on average, employees spend 8.3 hours a week accessing non-work-related sites.

Oracle, the world's second-biggest software maker, said on Wednesday it will make its global pricing policies public next week, in a move analysts said could benefit both the company and its customers.

Corporate networks are becoming increasingly clogged by e-mail pitches for pornography, money-making schemes and health products, and there's little relief on the horizon.

PeopleSoft and other companies that provide student-information systems for colleges are scrambling to help institutions meet a tight government deadline for reporting new information about foreign students.

The Banner Student Information System will be upgraded to version 5.4 on the weekend of September 7, 2002. The system will be off line from 6:00 PM Friday, September 6 until 6:00 AM. September 9.

Banner Users should not see any changes in the forms navigation, nor will you need to update your desktop settings.

If you experience any problems after September 9th, please call the Banner Help Desk at 757-8996.

As part of a grants program aimed at improving teacher training, IBM has awarded about $15-million to 29 colleges and universities in 10 states, the company announced on Thursday. The institutions and their affiliated school districts or state education departments were selected from more than 100 applicants.

Due out September 1, the new Norton AntiVirus automatically protects a PC from evolving threats such as advanced e-mail worms and infected instant messaging attachments.

The campus purchases web SSL certificates from Thawte. As of Monday, August 5, Thawte changed their web interface and request process. Under the new process, if you need a web certificate, please email the CSR, your seven-digit DaFIS account number and identification of your web server software to security@ucdavis.edu. This procedure is a change from previously issued information.

Over the past three months, the campus has received a growing number of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notifications.

In an attempt to provide increased security for Web sites, the Tokyo-based company Scarabs has developed a prototype hard drive with two heads, one a read-write head and the other a read-only head.

UC Davis Extension will launch a new certification program in computer security this Fall.

IET has released the first of a series of planned regular quarterly reports. Posted in PDF format, these reports provide a comprehensive overview of IET activities over the previous four months.

We have received a confirmed alert about unauthorized programs being installed on publicly accessible computers at a number of universities.