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For those who couldn't make it to the Guggenheim Museum Thursday morning, Apple (AAPL) has posted the full 60-minute video on its website here. Except for the hands-on demos and the free mac and cheese, it's almost as good as being there.
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New tools and platforms for replacing today's paper textbooks with iPads
Apple (AAPL) on Thursday introduced three new inititatives by which it hopes to "reinvent the textbook" around the iPad:
iBooks 2, a new iPad app and reading tool offering searchable, interactive, updatable textbooks filled with as many videos, photo galleries, glossaries and study guides as publishers choose to throw in
iTunes author, a Mac app with an array of tools for creating MORE
After a relatively slow start, downloads have tripled since Dec. 2009 to hit 300 million
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iTunes U, which began as a modest extension of Apple's (AAPL) iTunes Store in May 2007, has grown into one of the world's largest catalogs of educational course material -- with most of that growth occurring in the past eight months.
On Tuesday Apple announced that iTunes U downloads have now MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Aug 24, 2010 11:05 AM ET
Requests "confidentiality treatment" for iPhone 4 specs even as it spills the beans on iTunes
Patently Apple has turned up a curious letter. It was sent on June 4, three days before Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone 4, to the Federal Communications Commission -- the government agency that must certify any wireless device before it can be marketed in the U.S.
Signed by Apple's (AAPL) wireless compliance manager, it requests confidentiality for MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jun 18, 2010 1:42 PM ET
A Florida university is providing each of its student athletes with a MacBook Pro
USF Bulls with MacBooks. Photo: Joseph Gamble
They get the glory. They get the cheerleaders. And now they get free MacBooks.
In what it claims is a first, the University of South Florida announced Wednesday that it is loaning all of its student athletes -- some 460 in all -- 13-inch MacBook Pros so that can keep up MORE
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