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Christian College Offers Incoming Freshmen a Choice: iPad or MacBook

Christian College Offers Incoming Freshmen a Choice: iPad or MacBook

Posted by | Feb 23, 2010 | , |

Incoming freshmen who enroll at George Fox University (http://www.georgefox.edu/offices/inst_technology/it_servicedesk/computers_across_curriculum/index.html) this fall will have a choice to make before they arrive on campus in August: iPad or MacBook?

The Christian college in Oregon has opted to give new students the option of choosing the new iPad or selecting its current offering, the MacBook. For more than 20 years, George Fox has supplied a computer for each incoming undergraduate student to keep upon graduating. The cost is included in tuition.

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Apple now number three among smartphone vendors

Posted by | Feb 23, 2010 | , |

Mobile phone sales fell by almost 1% last year, according to Gartner (http://www.gartner.com) researchers. However, sales of smartphones grew, thanks to the success of the iPhone, BlackBerry and Google Android phones.

Worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totaled 1.211 billion units in 2009, a 0.9 %decline from 2008, according to Gartner. In the fourth quarter of 2009, the market registered a single-digit growth as mobile phone sales to end users surpassed 340 million units, an 8.3% increase from the fourth quarter of 2008.

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Comcast eyeing 250 Mbps service

Posted by | Feb 23, 2010 | , |

A “trusted source at Comcast told “Broadband Reports” (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Exploring-250-Mbps-Service-107002) that before the end of the year, we’ll begin hearing “rumblings” of a 250 Mbps service.

Comcast has already pushed DOCSIS 3.0 past 90% of their footprint, delivering 50 Mbps speeds in the process. While the company only offers 100 Mbps service in one market, a source told “Broadband Reports” that Comcast will be pushing faster 100 Mbps service to around 20% of their market by year’s end. 250 Mbps will take a bit longer.

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Apple’s Phil Schiller explains Apple App Store bans

Posted by | Feb 23, 2010 | |

Apple has started banning many applications for its iPhone that feature sexually suggestive material, and Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, told “The New York Times” (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/technology/23apps.html) the reasoning behind the move.

He said that Apple was responding to complaints from App Store users. Schiller said a small number of developers had been submitting “an increasing number of apps containing very objectionable content.”

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