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			<title>Study claims iPad helps rise in literacy for kindergarteners</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Nielsen: 70% of children in homes with tablets use one</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Apple launches 2012 back-to-school promo for Japan</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Apple sells scaled-back 13-inch MacBook Air to schools </title>
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			<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn2.macnn.com/news/1111/macbookair2011-2.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple is now selling a special scaled-back 13-inch MacBook Air to schools, a report says.  The model is said to have the same internal specifications as the standard 11-inch Air, including a 1.6GHz Core i5 processor, 2GB of RAM, 64GB of flash storage, and Intel graphics.  The new option is limited to schools buying in bulk, though, at a price of $999 per system, or $4,995 for a group of five.  A r...<br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Briefly: iOS 5 Programming Cookbook, Leopard Launchpad</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>White MacBook model for schools discontinued</title>
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			<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1202/Apple-MacBook-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Apple has now informed resellers that the educational version of the white MacBook, the last such model, is now discontinued, MacRumors reports. The $999 notebook was marked "end of life" for consumers last July, but the company continued to offer the model to educational institutions. The move marks the end of any non-aluminum Macs, and reflects the growing tendency of schools to focus on signifi...<br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Briefly: Word Lens gains French support, FMC iPad training</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>US education, FCC officials push for digital textbooks </title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Briefly: FileMaker Go web seminar, MediaDevil keyboard cover</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title>Nintendo, NTT DoCoMo use DS for voice recognition </title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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