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College students used to complain about dining-hall mystery meat. Their new gripe? Puny e-mail inboxes...
Students have been howling that school e-mail accounts are too small to handle their daily deluge of mail and attachments. To address that problem, a growing number of colleges and universities are outsourcing their e-mail. The companies swooping in to manage student accounts for free? Google and Microsoft. Like search, software and operating systems, campuses are a burgeoning battleground for the tech titans. (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
Google now manages e-mail for more than 2,000 colleges and universities, enabling students to transform accounts capped at 100 mb into Google-managed inboxes that allow for 70 times as much mail. Microsoft also provides free Web-based mail for thousands of schools, including colleges in 86 countries. Once colleges switch systems, students keep their .edu e-mail address while upgrading from stodgy campus access pages to speedier, sleeker Google (or Microsoft...
...goes to fund undergraduate financial aid, and profits from the "Harvard Yard" line will be no different. Harvard Trademark Program director Rick Calixto told the Boston Globe that Harvard makes over $1 million in royalties by licensing trademarks to entities like bookstores and mall kiosks. Longbrake wrote in an e-mail that about $500,000 a year from Harvard's licensing revenue funds undergraduate financial...
...delay, but they would have to go through the CCA in Austin first before approaching the Supreme Court for a stay and, as the execution was looming, they would have to act quickly. Frantically trying to assemble their paperwork - at the time, the CCA did not permit e-mail filings, though it now does - lawyers in Houston and Austin conferred over the phone, back and forth. They claimed that they were further slowed by computer failures, an issue on which experts on both sides are expected to testify...