When I've felt the need to provide audio recordings of my lectures, I simply record them with a pocket voice recorder that records directly to mp3 and mounts as a usb drive. My recorder is a Sony, but there are many on the market that are as good or better. From there it's easy to post them on Blackboard, Moodle, WebCT, or whatever courseware the teachers are using. When we do video, that's generally more of a production involving IT people and a different hosting server, but for audio a very simple approach seems to be the best.

They'd better watch out for the Streisand Effect.

I'm always surprised how often this is described as a 'new' problem. I have a home network in a very highly populated area, I can see over fifty networks from my apartment, and I switched to a dual-band router as soon as they came on the market. I would have thought that planning a university network to work on both bands would have been on the radar for a number of years.

The speed test numbers in the article are worthless. I tried the first test (ba.net) on my iphone GS from home where I'm on a pretty middle-of-the road DSL line, and got about twice the download speed reported in the article. Using the speed test app on the same phone, the results I generally see represent the limit of my DSL line. The point isn't to defend the iphone, I'm sure there are faster/better phones out there. The point is that the testing methodology is poor and the results in the article are poo. (You can also see that the wifi tests are limited by the tester's network connection: the upload/download rates are different. That is a characteristic of a DSL line, not wifi itself which should show similar speeds in both directions.)

Exactly. All the disadvantages of a laptop and a tablet rolled into one.

I think it is caused by an analog 2.4 ghz phone, and someone chats during that time period. I had one of those phones and found that when I used it it hosed most of the available channels. Replacing the phone solved the problem and doubtless made my neighbors' lives easier. After a move, the same pattern showed up. The solution was a dual-band router.

I saw that, and I thought that that Bezos should have made the obvious comparison to the iPod. The only reason to buy a Kindle is because it gives you access to material in a way that you would not have had otherwise, and that's exactly what an mp3 player does by giving you access to your music library anywhere. A Kindle could potentially have the same kind of advantage. For myself, I still listen to CDs and still read the newspaper, so what do I know?