Date: 06/21/2005
News:
To further increase the quality and value of its
services, MyDropBox is adding toll-free phone and fax lines. Please update
your records with the new contact information:
Phone: (888) 412-0973
Fax: (888) 479-5874
The old numbers will remain active for at least three months.
Date: 05/12/2005
News:
Sciworth Inc., a Toronto-based investment and consulting
company, acquired 100% of MyDropBox LLC, the company operating MyDropBox
services, including SafeAssignment for Blackboard (www.SafeAssignment.com).
The new owner will maintain the high level of services provided by MyDropBox
and will provide the company with additional funding to expand its market
presence and product line. For more information, refer toan official press-release from Sciworth Inc.
Date: 12/6/2004
News:
MyDropBox has added the entire ABI/Inform database provided and maintained by the ProQuest Corporation to the set of sources searched by MyDropBox’s plagiarism detection services. This database includes full texts from over 1100 publication titles and about 2.7 million articles dating from 1971 to present time and is updated weekly.
Date: 05/21/2004
News:
In June-August 2004, MyDropBox will be moving its head
office to Canada to finalize its year-long preparation to business expansion
fueled by the angel investment received in summer 2003. The new office of
MyDropBox is located in the quite city of Mississauga, Ontario (Great
Toronto Area), and is equipped with the infrastructure necessary to host the
company's staff, teleconferencing and printing equipment. MyDropBox server
equipment will not be moved to the central office. MyDropBox is committed
to maintaining its robust network of geographically distributed datacenters,
ensuring highest possible availability of service in all regions. MyDropBox
will retain its business presence in the United States, and the US
operations will be managed by local sales representatives and the company's
centralized customer support system. Regardless of the location of its
central office, MyDropBox team is dedicated to developing the best online
education and plagiarism prevention systems.
Date: 12/11/2004
News:
The functionality of MyDropBox Originality Reports has been substantially enhanced with addition of new features. Now every MyDropBox report contains a list of sources from which the manuscript has been supposedly plagiarized. Also, new MyDropBox reports allow re-processing of papers ignoring selected sources, making it easy to check the documents that are legitimately published online and to correct the problem of same papers submitted more than once. The new Source Highlighting feature allows users to see the plagiarism source pages from the Internet or from our databases with the plagiarized part of the document highlighted for more convenient evaluation.
Date: 10/20/2004
News:
Starting October 2003, all Blackboard ™ users can enjoy the power of MyDropBox plagiarism detection system straight from their Blackboard accounts. The new service, designed exclusively for Blackboard, is released under SafeAssignment™ trademark and can be accessed at http://www.safeassignment.com . SafeAssignment is a Blackboard Building Block, which, once installed, turns a Blackboard installation into a full-scale plagiarism detection platform automatically creating plagiarism reports on all written assignments passed through the Blackboard.
Date: 09/14/2003
News:
MyDropBox allows submitting files created with Microsoft Word text processor, and also searches through MS Word and Adobe Acrobet files (PDF) located in the Internet or in private electronic databases. Updated versions of file convertors ensure proper conversion of MS Word and PDF files created with the latest versions of corresponding applications - MS Word 2003 and Adobe Acrobat 6.0
Date: 01/04/2003
News:
70,000th manuscript checked by MyDropBox
Date: 10/15/2002
News:
MyDropBox searches over 4.3 billion pages
Date: 03/16/2002
News:
Source Comparison Screen added to MyDropBox’s Originality Report
MyDropBox.com has just completed improving the interface of Originality Reports. New reports include an advanced feature – Source Comparison Screen, which is designed to assist users in analyzing the results of detection. The new window provides sentence-by-sentence comparison of original documents to their online sources, assisting MyDriopBox users to allocate direct evidences of plagiarism. The new screen provides links to online sources and informs of the exact percentage of plagiarism in any particular sentence.
