Microsoft has launched fourteen Innovation Centres across four Indian states. The centres allow for students to gain certification with Microsoft's products, with seven in Andhra Pradesh alone. More...

India's president, Pranab Mukherjee, has unveiled the country's Aakash-2 tablet. A successor to the original Aakash, the new model brings Android 4.0 to the table and is aimed at students especially. More...

Students enrolled in Microsoft's DreamSpark program will be able to download the final version of Windows 8 starting on August 25th, according to a Microsoft blog post. More...

Samsung are to release a new variant of their Galaxy Tab 7.0. Entitled the 'Student Edition', it includes extras and retails for the same price as a standard model.... for some reason. More...

Microsoft's Imagine Cup is a global competition that fosters innovation and creative thinking to solve some of the most complex challenges that we face everyday. More...

The blogosphere has been abuzz with discussion in recent weeks over rumours that Google is poised to launch its new Chrome-powered notebook under an innovative package that would eschew an up-front fee in favour of... More...

Last week Neowin reported on a shocking case at the Lower Merion High School district in Pennsylvania, U.S. The FBI confirmed later that they will be opening up a criminal investigation over the matter. Students issued... More...

The federal privacy commissioner has launched an investigation into Facebook after University of Ottawa law students complained the site breaches Canadian law by disclosing personal information to advertisers without obtaining proper consent. The students, some... More...

Students from anywhere in the world can sign up for the Google Online Marketing Challenge, a hands-on competition which will give undergraduate and post-graduate students direct experience with online advertising and marketing. Student groups will... More...

For college students who want Office 2007, but don't want to pay Microsoft a fortune, the software maker is offering another option: Steal it. Well, actually Microsoft isn't encouraging piracy. Rather it is launching a... More...

As part of its war on pirated music and videos, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is opening up a new front at the resident halls of the University of California-Berkeley's campus. Starting this... More...

Forty students from around the world got to pitch their software projects to Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates on Tuesday as part of a worldwide software development challenge. Gates as well as Craig Mundie, chief... More...

In February, the RIAA offered university students the option of an early settlement with the organization, which included lowered payouts and the benefit of avoiding going to court. While some universities were quick to comply... More...

The RIAA has released figures regarding its recent campaign against file sharing at US colleges and universities: only 116 students of 400 have used their new web site to settle copyright infringement claims, meaning 284... More...

Thanks to johnathonm for his submission to the front page. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said it sent 400 letters to 13 U.S. universities advising of potential copyright infringement lawsuits against students who... More...

French authorities will give out 175,000 USB memory sticks loaded with open-source software to Parisian 15 and 16 year-old high school students at the start of the next school year. The open source software (web... More...

College students are to be given free iPods so they can catch up on missed lectures in their own time. South Kent College in Dover has spent £25,000 on Nano iPods for 250 students in... More...

Beginning this fall, George Washington University will team up with Apple computers to offer audio recordings of classroom lectures over the Internet using the iTunes music program. The new software, called "iTunes U," is designed... More...

As Justin Bills walked across his condo's parking garage on a Sunday morning last fall, he noticed shattered glass surrounding his car. Through the empty window frame, he noted the iPod he left in a... More...

Students in eight universities amongst four different countries worked together to compile a new game in 12 weeks. The game, "Descent to the Underworld", is based on the Game-Film platform. Instead of the... More...

Two Oxford students have been suspended after admitting to gaining unauthorized access to the university's IT network. Patrick Foster, 20, and Roger Waite, 21, claimed they had carried out the hack to expose security flaws.... More...

Should make for an interesting edition of University Challenge A university course in Canada teaching students how to create computer viruses has been met with derision by angry industry watchers, who believe... More...

Apple Computer is letting a bunch of kids take over its stores. Aiming to show off what it can do for schools, Apple is letting students and teachers hold open houses in its... More...

When it comes to keeping computers running, many school districts rely on students, according to a study by the National School Boards Foundation. The group said the survey it commissioned of 90 of... More...

Thanks Greg C. for this story. They were smart enough to hack into a computer system, but foolish enough to leave a clue behind. Now, more than two dozen students at Highline... More...

Thanks Babis from MSFN Board for the heads up. Microsoft Visual Studio .NET is the revolutionary new development tool that will enable you to rapidly build next generation applications that can target any... More...

Microsoft have announced today, Office XP Standard for Students and Teachers, which will retail at $149, nearly 70 percent less than the company's full list price for other consumers. But despite the steep discount, product... More...

I found this interesting article while browsing through Yahoo!: One of China's hottest college Internet bulletin boards has been shut down after students posted articles about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, officials and students said... More...