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Panasonic to release 65-inch Interactive Plasma Display

Panasonic Corporation announced today it will start shipment of its 65-inch "Interactive Plasma Display" (TH-65PB1), incorporated with electronic pen functions, in Japan, the U.S., and Europe at the end of ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Textbook rentals a growing trend in higher education

ntil recently, when it came to buying textbooks, there really were only two primary options for the nation’s college students: new or used, and used only sometimes. However, over the past few years, there has been a ...

Technology / Internet

created May 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Analyst: Apple sold more than 350,000 e-textbooks in 3 days

Apple's foray into the e-textbook business started off with a bang, according to a Monday report: The company sold more than 350,000 textbooks through its new version of iBooks in its first three days of availability, an a ...

Technology / Business

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Apple starts selling interactive iPad textbooks (Update)

Apple Inc. on Thursday launched its attempt to make the iPad a replacement for a satchel full of textbooks by starting to sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high-school books.

Technology / Business

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (12) | comments 3

E-textbooks may usher lower costs, improved learning for college students

(PhysOrg.com) -- An e-textbook pilot program will be tested in the coming months as Ball State University examines methods to reduce the cost of attending college and increase learning efficiency.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Apple to hold media event on education next week

(AP) -- Apple is scheduling a media event in New York next week, but the company isn't saying much about the topic it plans to discuss.

Technology / Business

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Many US schools adding iPads, trimming textbooks

(AP) -- For incoming freshmen at western Connecticut's suburban Brookfield High School, hefting a backpack weighed down with textbooks is about to give way to tapping out notes and flipping electronic pages ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 04, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 14

Science materials in Texas get prelim. approval

(AP) -- An expected fight over teaching evolution in Texas classrooms fizzled Thursday when the state's Board of Education gave preliminary approval to supplemental science materials for the coming school ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

SKorean students ditch paper for digital books

Outside the classroom a hot summer day beckons, but fourth-grade teacher Yeon Eun-jung's students are glued to their tablet PCs as they watch an animated boy and a girl squabble about whether water becomes ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Kindle lets students rent digital textbooks

Amazon.com on Monday began letting students rent textbooks on Kindle electronic readers.

Technology / Other

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Kno textbook reader to ship this year

Kno Inc., a California company making a digital textbook reader for students, announced on Tuesday it would begin shipping the tablet computer by the end of the year.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Japan to pilot digital textbooks in classrooms

Japan will soon start trialling electronic textbooks in primary schools, enhancing the role of IT in the classroom for a generation of "digital natives" born in the wired age.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

46 million dollars in funding for digital textbook reader

Kno Inc., a company developing a digital textbook reader for students, said Wednesday that it has received 46 million dollars in the latest round of funding from venture capitalists.

Technology / Business

created Sep 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A medicine 'classic' goes online and far afield

Oxford University Press (OUP) has launched, for the first time online, the prestigious Oxford Textbook of Medicine. Generations of consultants, trainees, and medical students have relied on this "classic" for practical guidance ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 06, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Textbook move: Ex-Yahoo exec becomes CEO of Chegg

(AP) -- A former Yahoo executive is taking over as CEO of online textbook rental service Chegg.com.

Technology / Business

created Feb 02, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0