Tag Archive | "education"

Thursday Afternoon Link Roundup

Thursday, May 21, 2009

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Apple job listing reveals more powerful ARM processors and video processing for iPhone – MacRumors Push Notification Screenshots – My Apple Guide Apple patents image sensing display technology – MacNN Apple secretly adding voice command technology into Apple TV – MacNN Send your kids to Apple Camp this Summer – Network World Scott Moritz is already […]

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Japanese University to measure student attendance via GPS enabled iPhones?

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

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A Japanese University in Tokyo is taking an interesting, if not downright Big-Brother, approach to monitoring student attendance.  All students at Aoyama Gakuin University will receive a free GPS enabled iPhone, which will allow school administrators to see which students are in school and which are not. The faculty began providing Apple iPhone 3Gs to […]

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Free iPhone development course from Stanford nets over 1 Million downloads on iTunes

Monday, May 18, 2009

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One of the cooler things about iTunes, though perhaps not widely known, is iTunes U, an area within iTunes that lets users download educational content such as lectures and lab demonstrations from Universities much in the same way you would download a podcast.  Naturally some of the content is restricted to students who attend a particular University, but much of the content […]

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2 Seventh graders create an iPhone app

Monday, May 11, 2009

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2 enterprising 7th graders from Chicago, Sam Kaplan and Louis Harboe, recently completed a Math-centric iPhone app called Mathmaster that is now available for download on iTunes. The Chicago Sun Times reports: The Mathmasteris pretty straightforward. For 99 cents per download, the application is marketed to parents as a fun tool to get their children […]

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