Year: 2002
Scotland schools set to adopt Maine-style iBook program
School chiefs in Edinburgh, Scotland are planning to adopt a program to provide laptops to every student over the age of nine after being inspired by Governor Angus King’s initiative to bring iBooks to every seventh and eighth grader in Maine, according to the Edinburgh News. After an overseas trip to the U.S., city education leader Ewan Aitken claimed that early indications from the program under way at 239 middle schools in Maine had shown the laptops improved discipline, behavior, attendance and attainment.
Read MoreTech heavyweights form new company to provide nationwide wireless internet access
AT&T, Intel and IBM have announced that they are combining their technologies and capabilities to create a new company, Cometa Networks, that will provide high-speed wireless Internet access nationwide. The company will work with major national and regional retail chains, hotels, universities and real estate firms to deploy thousands of wireless “hot spots,” which will utilize WiFi technology — also called 802.11, the technology Apple’s AirPort is based on.
Read MorePower Mac G4 dual-1.25 GHz, 23″ Cinema HD Display refurbs available
Apple is offering factory-refurbished dual-1.25 GHz Power Mac G4s for US$2,899 and 23″ Cinema HD Displays for $3,199 from the “Special Deals” section of the online Apple Store. Small Dog Electronics, a MacMinute sponsor, also offers the same refurbished display for $2995. All refurbished products come with a full one-year warranty from Apple. (Click on the “Special Deals” badge at the bottom left of the Apple Store to see the listing.)
Read MoreSnowSaver: screensaver based on Apple Store holiday display
SnowSaver 1.1b2 is a Mac OS X screensaver based on a falling snowflakes animation running on iMacs in the current holiday window displays of the Apple retail stores. Users can change the snowflake size, depth fog, number of snowflakes, depth of scene, background color, and more.
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