Year: 2003

Stillwater, Minn. students, teachers to get iBooks

Posted by | Sep 23, 2003 | |

Minnesota’s Stillwater board of education has approved a plan to give every junior high student in the district an iBook to use at home and school, “despite requests from dozens of angry parents to delay the decision,” reports the Pioneer Press. On Monday, the board approved a five-year, US$2.85 million lease agreement with Apple to provide the laptops. The iBooks will go to about 2,270 students and 135 staff members at Oak-Land and Stillwater junior high schools by next fall.

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Web inventor is past NeXT user, present Mac user

Posted by | Sep 23, 2003 | |

During a lecture at the Royal Society in London yesterday, Tim Berners-Lee told the audience that he invented the World Wide Web using a computer from NeXT (the company created by Apple CEO Steve Jobs), according to Macworld UK. In addition, he presented his lecture using Apple’s Safari Web browser on a PowerBook and referenced the Web’s potential by talking about the possibilities of iCal. NeXT was founded by Jobs after he was forced out of Apple in 1985 in a power struggle with John Sculley.

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