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(12/01/04 10:00am)
A handful of Penn administrators, government officials and faculty were on hand last Tuesday at Levine Hall for the official commencement ceremony of Penn's major venture into the study of nanotechnology.
(12/01/04 10:00am)
Recent research by Wharton professor Joel Waldfogel and Economics professor Rafael Rob has lent some credence to what the recording industry has been saying all along: music downloading hurts CD sales.
(11/24/04 10:00am)
Although commercial electronic mail giants are already offering gigabyte-sized e-mail boxes for their clients, it is unlikely that Penn students will have that luxury any time soon.
(11/16/04 10:00am)
The names of the six Penn students who have been sued by the recording industry might be public knowledge by the end of the week, allowing for the possibility of continuing litigation.
(11/12/04 10:00am)
The Motion Picture Association of America announced last week that it would begin filing copyright infringement lawsuits against illegal movie downloaders starting Nov. 16.
(11/05/04 10:00am)
An Oct. 12 ruling in the Eastern District Court of Pennsylvania has afforded additional privacy rights to would-be defendants of copyright infringement lawsuits in the Philadelphia area.
(11/04/04 10:00am)
The increase of cellular phone usage nationwide over the last few years has pushed communications companies to continually upgrade the range and quality of their cellular services in order to serve their growing customer bases.
(11/02/04 10:00am)
A flurry of new voter registrations and election measures this season has overwhelmed Philadelphia voter registration offices, disenfranchising many would-be voters by preventing them from receiving their registration cards in time or even getting on the rolls.
(11/02/04 10:00am)
Voters who are not currently on voter registration rolls in their districts may still be able to vote, thanks to a new measure known as provisional ballots.
(10/29/04 9:00am)
Aside from electing their candidates for local and national office, voters will be faced with a referendum question that could have potentially large implications for all Philadelphia residents when they go to the polls on Election Day.
(10/22/04 9:00am)
Even if one was not actually at Irvine Auditorium for President Amy Gutmann's inauguration last Friday, there were many other ways to be with her on stage -- and all thanks to the magic of Penn Video Productions.
(10/21/04 9:00am)
One of Penn's top Chemistry professors recently returned from China, where he was honored last month with the country's highest civilian honor.
(10/18/04 9:00am)
A Silicon Valley, Calif., company recently proposed to provide all Philadelphia residents with free wireless Internet service in under three months for an installation cost of $5 million -- a significantly smaller investment than provided for in the city's original proposal.
(10/15/04 9:00am)
The U.S. House Judiciary Committee approved legislation last month that could mean even more trouble for file sharers caught on peer-to-peer networks.
(10/15/04 9:00am)
As part of an effort to expand coverage of its voice and data wireless network, communications company Verizon Wireless opened a new cell tower on campus last month. Other companies, including AT&T; and Cingular Wireless, have also focused on improving service on campus recently.
(10/13/04 9:00am)
A consortium of movie and record companies joined forces on Friday to request that the U.S. Supreme Court take another look at peer-to-peer file-sharing programs.
(10/08/04 9:00am)
Penn's RoboCup team placed fourth in the four-legged league competition of the international RoboCup 2004, held in Lisbon, Portugal, this past July.
(10/07/04 9:00am)
For better or worse, consumers nationwide -- and across campus -- have started to take notice of a novel online marketing scheme that seeks to acquire new customers through the lure of free iPods.
(10/04/04 9:00am)
Current developments at Penn's Information Systems and Computing promise to change the way students manage their loans -- from less service to self-service.
(10/01/04 9:00am)
At the August completion of the largest technology initial public offering in history, Stanford University came away $15.7 million richer from its sale of stock in search engine giant Google Inc.