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Apple Inc. on Thursday launched its attempt to make the iPad a replacement for a satchel full of textbooks by starting to sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high-school books.

Technology and mobile computing, while not necessarily a panacea, may be a valuable asset to the future of education. At least, that seems to be the conclusion of a yearlong Algebra pilot program conducted by educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, in partnership with California’s Riverside, San Francisco, Long …

COMMENTARY | According to USA Today, Apple has announced the company is bringing textbooks to the iPad. The article mentions that textbooks will be able to take advantage of the video and multimedia capabilities of the iPad, which would be a pretty cool education tool. However, as the Wall Street Journal points out, Apple …

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The camera is normally a big selling point, but in Singapore Apple's iPhone 4 and 4S are now available without the function -- to cater to military personnel banned from taking image-capturing devices into army camps.

Whether you want to ditch your wallet for good, or have the option to travel light on occasion, an iPhone case with slots for credit cards, ID and cash is a handy tool. We've found 10 cases that allow you to leave your wallet at home and save on valuable pocket space.

The camera is normally a big selling point, but in Singapore Apple's iPhone 4 and 4S are now available without the function -- to cater to military personnel banned from taking image-capturing devices into army camps.

The camera is one of the most celebrated features of the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S, earning first place on Flickr’s “most used camera” chart, and spawning many iPhone-only photography apps such as Instagram and Hipstamatic.

Apple is taking aim at the textbook market.

First reported by Want China Times earlier today, chairman Terry Gou was meeting with senior managers and stated “”Hon Hai has a workforce of over one million worldwide and as human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.” Hon Hai is the parent company of Foxconn, the company responsible …

Imagine just prior to the holiday season supplies of Apple’s iPhone ran dry. You’d been hoping to treat yourself to the latest 4S device, or buy one for a friend or relative, but you can’t find the smartphone anywhere. Worse still, there’s no word when they might be returning to stores. If this happened, would you instead …

Instructional Technology Resource Teacher Jenny Grabiec recently purchased iPads for two of the ESL classrooms in her 160-school district using federal funds allocated for students with limited English proficiency.

Apple is taking aim at the textbook market.

Apple is taking aim at the textbook market.

Apple just held a press conference here in New York detailing new strategies and software to turn the iPad into a complete textbook replacement for students of any age. After rattling off the many reasons why textbooks are not as good as computers (weight, lack of up-to-date material, cost, no search, etc), Apple announced …

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - Bleacher Report, one of the largest sports websites in the country, has hit the iPad. The company launched both its Team Stream App, which offers fans curated news and analysis from various content sources, and its HTML 5-optimized website for Apple's tablet on Thursday. The Team Stream App, already …

Apple is set to dive headfirst into the education marketplace with Thursday's introduction of iBooks 2 for the iPad, which textbook manufacturers say will result in the "reinvention the textbook."

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Nearly half of all consumers purchasing a new smartphone in the US chose an Apple iPhone for their mobile device according to a study by market research group Nielsen. 

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China Communist Party members can now carry a tablet PC to verify identification cards, read the blogs of cadres and manage state-owned firms without fretting that using a bourgeois Apple Inc iPad will ruin their street cred. Enter RedPad Number One, an Android-based tablet computer filled with software …

Teachers and fanboys waited with bated breath on Thursday morning, anticipating Apple's latest disruptive foray into a new media space due to be revealed at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum. This time -- much as the late Steve Jobs's philosophy on education would suggest -- the world's richest tech company wants to reinvent …

Apple's Phil Schiller announced a new textbook experience for the iPad called iBooks 2 on Thursday.

Popular Brazilian-based social networking site Orkut has finally gotten its own app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.