Duke exonerates iPhones.

This post come from eSchoolNews. Duke University at first blamed and then subsequently exonerated Apple iPhones in statements concerning outages of the universities computer network. The reversal came only hours after the initial claims from a school technology spokesman. The university now says iPhones were not the cause of the problems.

In a swift reversal, Duke University first accused and then exonerated students’ iPhones. A problem with Duke’s wireless network caused outages at the school, Duke officials said July 20—not Apple's new iPhone.

The retraction came only hours after Bill Cannon, a university technology spokesman, said an analysis of network traffic found that iPhones had flooded parts of the university’s wireless network with access requests, freezing parts of the system for 10 minutes at a time. This analysis turned out to be faulty, according to Duke’s most recent statement. To read the rest of this post click here.