GetYa Learn On (http://GetYaLearnOn.com) — an educational software company that created the app called “Statistics I” — has released empirical findings from a pilot study conducted during the fall semester of 2009 at Abilene Christian University (ACU) that shows positive effects of using and iPhone (or iPod touch) in the classroom.
Read MoreMorgan Stanley analyst Ehud Gelblum thinks Verizon is passing on the chance to be an iPhone carrier in the US — see http://www.macnews.com/content/verizon-pass-iphone — but “The Wall Street Journal” (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304370304575152242601774892.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories( has a different take on the situation.
Read MoreA new screencast (http://supersync.com/intro.php) walks you through the use of SuperSync, Mac OS X compatible software that acts as a music collection’s central hub, retrieving, organizing, and syncing all music and movie files across machines and disk drives in order to create one consistent, complete music library.
Read MoreHere are the latest iPhone/iPod touch/iPod/iPad apps announced. You can find ’em at the Apple App Store (http://www.itunes.com/appstore/).
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Electronic book publisher Lulu (http://www.lulu.com/) told its top authors over the weekend that their electronic books can be made available on Apple’s new iBookstore that is debuting with the launch of the iPad on April 3.
According to “Digital Beat” (http://macosg.me/2/1t), Lulu said it would automatically convert books for submission to the iBookstore — unless authors didn’t want their books published on the iPad. According to R.R. Bowker’s Books in Print database, some 276,489 books were published traditionally in the U.S. in 2008. Lulu alone published over 400,000 titles last year.
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