+ Free Educational Content Now Available from iTunes U on the iTunes Store

Apple announces iTunes U. A dedicated area within the iTunes Store, iTunes U features free content – course lectures, language lessons, lab demonstrations, sports highlights, and campus tours — from such leading universities as Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Duke University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Note: What would make this even cooler is to use something like Nexidia and make all of the spoken word content keyword searchable. Nexidia indexes by breaking down spoken words into phonetic sounds (phonemes). Demo here.
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+ Apple Launches iTunes Plus

iTunes Plus—DRM-free music tracks featuring high quality 256 kbps AAC encoding for audio quality virtually indistinguishable from the original recordings—for just $1.29 per song. iTunes Plus is launching with EMI’s digital catalog of outstanding recordings, including singles and albums from Coldplay, The Rolling Stones, Norah Jones, Frank Sinatra, Joss Stone, Pink Floyd, John Coltrane and more than a dozen of Paul McCartney’s classic albums available on iTunes for the first time.

Source: Apple

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