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Download iBooks 2 for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
At Education Event, iBooks 2 for iOS is released with new features and especially integrates support for iBooks Textbooks for iDevices on iOS 4.2 or later.
Download iBooks 2 for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
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Apple Education Media Event Videos
Apple has posted videos of its Education Event, where company has made several announcements related to educational stuff including some apps like iBooks with Textbooks support, iTunes U, iBooks Author etc.
You can check out videos from Education Media Event at Apple’s official page or through iTunes.
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India’s $35 tablet is here, for real. costs $60
India’s much-hyped $35 tablet for students is a reality. But, like every other super-cheap education project, the price has jumped — though in this case only to Rs 2,999 ($60). It turns out that the Aakash is actually an Ubislate 7 from Datawind (makers of the Pocketsurfer). Beneath the 7-inch 800 x 480 resistive touchscreen is a 366MHz Connexant CPU, 256MB of RAM and 2GB of storage (expandable via microSD) running Froyo and the Getjar market on top. The battery life is rated for a rather short three hours, and much less if you want to play HD video. In addition to the 802.11 a/b/g [...]
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The OLPC plan to give 30 million laptops to Africa by 2015
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) has recently announced an exciting new partnership in East Africa, with newly-ambitious plans to deliver 30 million laptops to primary school children across the region by 2015.
The new partnership between OLPC and the East African Community (EAC) is now looking at ways of raising the large amounts of money required to fund the laptop scheme over the coming five years.
EAC represents the governments of Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda and Burundi.
Massively ambitious program
“This is a very ambitious project for which we will have to partner with various people [...]
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How to: Win an iPod nano 5g
Terms and Conditions
You may enter this contest if
The name, surname and place of education you have provided are genuine, and you have uploaded a photograph of yourself,
your IP-address is in Pakistan,
Your telephone number begins with +92 (Pakistan),
Your postal address is in Pakistan.
Prizes will be awarded randomly among the participants in this contest who invite no less than 5 friends from Pakistan.
Invited users will only be counted if they provide their real name, surname, upload a photo and provide their education information
Repeated registrations do not count.
You can only invite [...]
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2tor Raises $20 Million Series B To Go After The High End Of Online Education
Every year as broadband reaches more people, online education keeps growing and growing. So far, though, most online education focusses on vocational courses, test preparation, or supplemental tutoring. One startup trying to bring entire degree programs online is 2tor, which just closed a $20 million Series B funding at a rumored valuation of around $100 million. Highland Capital Partners led the round, with previous investors Redpoint, Novak Biddle, and City Light Capital participating. Last June, the company raised $10 million in a Series A.
“What is unique about 2tor is they are the [...]
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Nokia, Pearson Set Up Digital Education Joint Venture In China
Nokia and education company Pearson have formed a joint venture in China dubbed Beijing Mobiledu Technologies to grow MobilEdu, the wireless education service that the Finnish mobile giant launched in China back in 2007.
Mobiledu is a mobile service that essentially provides English-language learning materials and other educational content, from a variety of content providers, directly to mobile phones.
Customers can access the content through an application preloaded on new Nokia handsets, or by visiting the service’s mobile website and most other WAP portals in China.
According to Nokia, [...]
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Medical ed site Orbis lands $8M to ease nursing shortage
VCs have, for the most part, steered clear of education startups, save for a few areas where consumers are willing to open their wallets — things like standardized test prep and language learning. However, Lightspeed Venture Partners thinks it’s found a goldmine in nurse training. Today, the firm announced an $8 million round for IL-based Orbis Education, which helps universities web-enable their nursing programs, reduce their per-student costs and meet the country’s growing need for medical professionals.
As Congress hashes out a plan to expand medical coverage, the country’s demand [...]
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Comparing India and Pakistan in 2010
Dr. Ishrat Husain, a former World Bank senior official and an ex governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, wrote an article captioned “India, Pakistan: a comparison” at the end of the first five decades of two nations’ existence as independent states. To my knowledge, Dr. Hussain has not done an update of his article since it was first published. Although about three years too late, this post is my attempt to present a comparison of the two South Asian nations after sixty years of independence.
Here is the opening paragraph from Dr. Husain’s article from the late 1990s, which [...]
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Pakistani-American Demographics
Pakistani-American has been elected mayor of a town in Washington state by a landslide. The 54-year-old Mayor-elect Haroon Saleem admits that running the Timberline Bar and Cafe, with beer ads plastered everywhere, is not exactly a pious following of Islam, which forbids alcohol consumption.The big win for a Muslim Pakistani-American is all the more surprising because Granite Falls is a small mining town of 800 mostly blue-collar whites, a result that residents say would have been inconceivable not long ago.
After 911 attacks in New York and Washington, Saleem told the Associated Press that community [...]
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