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The New York Times profiled the university and Oxford in its weekend Travel section, calling it "one of the South's artsiest and most literate college towns, a pint-size and much more navigable Austin, Tex."

On Monday, in a unanimous 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court held that police must obtain a warrant before using a global positioning system to track suspects.

Justice Samuel Alito focused on the physical nature of attaching a GPS device to a suspect’s vehicle. 

Frankly, this is not a surprising outcome. One can easily imagine a variety of ways in which police officers maneuver themselves in order to attach these devices to cars.

For University of Mississippi students who frequent the Oxford University Transit buses, a new iPhone app could mean less frustration and more progress at bus stops. 

Busvetica is an application for mobile Apple products that locates the nearest bus stop and displays the next bus arrival time.

The Apple application, which works with the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, was developed by Ian Meyer and his company Adelie Software. He said the idea for the app came to him upon observing confusing bus arrival times in his town of Chapel Hill, N.C.

The women emerge from the mist, intertwined with flowers, and glide through the wind.
These enchanting women are the subjects of the newest paintings from Oxford-based figurative artist Stan O’Dell.
In his show Les Femmes Enchanteur, opening Oct. 4 at Southside Gallery in Oxford, O’Dell celebrates the beauty, grace and mystery of women.

On June 28, Google launched a campaign to kill Facebook.

Ever since our generation got its hands on the computer, Google was the search engine god of the Internet. It answers all our questions from health diagnostics to directions to our favorite restaurants. 

Since everyone thinks so highly of it, we expect a genius team to come up with anything and be successful at it.  

I get the majority of my news (more than 80 percent) from Internet sources.

I cannot remember the last time I watched the news on TV, and I rarely read the newspaper anymore. The only “traditional” source of news I still use is the radio, but only because of my commute to campus in the morning.

Whereas our parents and grandparents most likely get their news from traditional sources, the rise of Internet news has given our generation quick, free access to numerous information outlets.

University of Mississippi officials are working to ensure that the quality of on-campus Internet access keeps up with increases in enrollment and use of wireless devices.

Periods of slow Internet service are frustrating for some students who live on campus.

Stewart Fakess, an Ole Miss freshman from Orlando, said he believes the service should be better because of his out-of-state tuition.

“I pay so much already because I’m out of state ­— they better give me some good Internet,” Fakess said.

After Oxford’s submission for Google Fiber national broadband Internet in 2010, some concern has surfaced because a decision has not yet been made.

Google was originally set to make an announcement in late 2010 as to which city or town would win the broadband Internet.

Stewart Rutledge volunteered to help Oxford receive the Internet service and has been the leader of Oxford’s participation in the project.     

When you hear the word “app” as it relates to cell phones, you normally first think of Apple’s App Store.

Apple has created an extremely successful, if not the most successful, application marketplace to date.

While many competitors have tried to emulate Apple in this regard, they fall short of the sheer number of applications available and the intuitiveness of Apple’s App Store.

The iPhone is no longer exclusive to AT&T.

Starting Feb. 10, those with Verizon as their service provider will have the option to purchase an iPhone. This is a large step for Apple and the mobile phone community.

For those who have complained (myself included) of poor AT&T service, we now have some form of respite. Already AT&T is jockeying to steal and/or keep iPhone customers.