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UC Irvine Med School find new way to increase cost of tuition

August 14th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion

They gave out iPads to first year med students last week. From PhysOrg.com: At an annual ceremony Aug. 6, UC Irvine’s incoming medical students were presented with their first white coats – the traditional garb of physicians everywhere. They then received something untraditional: Apple iPad tablet computers loaded with everything necessary for the initial year [...]

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Goldman Sachs predicts increase in ebook sales

April 13th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion

And in other news, water is wet. From Business Week: U.S. book sales will rise 5.8 percent through 2015 as more people buy digital versions for Apple Inc.’s iPad and Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle, even as traditional book sales drop, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said.Industrywide sales will increase to $24.9 billion in 2015 from $23.5 billion [...]

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Publishers see iPad as path to sales increase

March 29th, 2010 · No Comments · software news

Financial Times has a pretty good summary of which magazine titles will be available for the iPad on Launch day. They also had this one little tidbit about themselves: The Financial Times app, planned for release in Europe and the US in late April, will be a free download, but will have the same subscription [...]

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