Matthew Symonds (independent.co.uk) reports that Warwick Business School has made its courses and research material available in iTunes University, a free education area within the Apple iTunes Store. Symonds cites new research suggesting “that university students who learn by downloading a podcast lecture achieve significantly higher exam results than those who attend the lecture in person.â€
Posts Tagged ‘turn’
10 Ways Microsoft Can Turn Around Windows Mobile
September 30th, 2009 |
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Microsoft is upset with the direction of its Windows Mobile division. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that Microsoft and its team of mobile engineers can’t turn things around. The software giant has the opportunity to do so, and compete effectively against Apple, Palm and the RIM BlackBerry. It just needs to remember a few things.
– Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said earlier this week
that his company made some mistakes with Windows Mobile that he hopes to
address (and fix) going forward. According to reports, Ballmer told those he
was speaking with that Microsoft quot;screwed up with Windows Mobile. quot; He
also indicated …
Turkey and Armenia to hold diplomatic talks
September 1st, 2009 |
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Relations between hostile neighbors Turkey and Armenia have taken a turn for the better with the two agreeing to hold talks on establishing diplomatic ties. It was last year’s unprecedented meeting between their leaders in the Armenian capital which began the slow improvement after almost a century of bitter mistrust.
Honduras protests turn violent
August 13th, 2009 |
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Supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya clashed with soldiers and police for a second day on Wednesday as street protests over the June 28 army coup turned rowdy. Security forces fired tear gas to disperse a crowd of thousands of demonstrators in the capital Tegucigalpa and
Americans Turn to Career Sites During Economic Downturn
August 8th, 2009 |
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CareerBuilder Leads Category, Followed by Yahoo! HotJobs and Monster RESTON, VA, July 28, 2009 – comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a June 2009 overview of the career services & development category based on data from comScore Media Metrix and comScore Marketer. The study revealed that more than [...]
Hosts rue rain at Edgbaston
August 7th, 2009 |
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Seldom do we see a Test match marred by bad weather turn out to be so interesting. England will be cursing the rain gods for denying them a chance of going 2-0 up in the Ashes after having put Australia on the back foot at Edgbaston this week. With close to five sessions lost due to rain, it was
Ways to Turn Your Kids Summer Break into a Fun Escape
August 4th, 2009 |
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The summer months are the ideal occasion for having fun while the kids are home for a few months. It can get costly taking them to theme parks, water parks, and fun centers, especially if you’re on a tight budget. If you are in a similar financial state as most people around the world are, [...]
Ricky Gervais to turn his back on acting to focus on direction
August 3rd, 2009 |
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British funnyman Ricky Gervais is planning to quit acting to focus on direction.
Last year, Gervais directed ‘Ghost Town’ and the success of the movie has tempted him to wear the director’s cap permanently.
“I have fallen in love with directing now, almost as much as writing,†the Daily Star quoted Gervais as saying.
“If I am going [...]
Monday Melody
July 27th, 2009 |
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TURN IT UP A LITTLE BIT HIGHER
 Van Morrison |
Few things hit ya in your soul like the early work of Van Morrison. For about a decade at the start of his solo career after leaving Them he seemed to possess a divining rod that lead him straight to sweet musical waters, which he ladled out with a kind hand to us thirsty cats ‘n’ kittens. There’s a sense of being on a profound journey in Van’s early catalog, a purposeful momentum that invigorates day-to-day life. This vibe is rarely more apparent than “Caravan” off 1970′s Moondance, which celebrates the road and the power of music to uplift one’s life. The repeated cries of “radio, radio” make one wanna reach for the volume and answer to his call to crank it up “so you know you got soul.” Let this one carry you into a swell-as-hell week, children.
Snap! Bonus Van for your weekday pick-me-up with the hippie gospel saunter of “Call Me Up In Dreamland” from the indestructibly great His Band and Street Choir album.
Backstreet Boys turn to hitmaker behind Lady Gaga for new album
July 27th, 2009 |
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Backstreet Boys have collaborated with the hitmaker behind Lady GaGa for their new album.
The group team-up with Moroccan- Swedish producer-songwriter RedOne after struggling to find direction when they started work on their seventh studio disc This Is Us.
RedOne, real name Nadir Khaya, worked on a number of songs for GaGa’’s debut album The Fame, including [...]
“Dancing With the Stars†duo prepare to turn up the heat on B’way
July 25th, 2009 |
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NEW YORK (AP) — Karina Smirnoff (kuh-REE’-nuh SMEER’-nahf) and Maksim Chmerkovskiy (MAKS’-ihm shmehr-KAWF’-skee) have no time to think about their wedding.
They’re too busy burning up the dance floor.
The professional dancers – best known from ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” – are preparing for their Broadway debuts in the ballroom dance show “Burn The Floor.” [...]
Tom Engelhardt: Don’t Turn the Page on History: Facing the American World We Created
July 23rd, 2009 |
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Given the last eight years of disaster piled on catastrophe, who in would want to look backward? The urge to turn the page in this country is palpable, but — just for a moment — let’s not.
Ellen Brown: How California Could Turn Its IOUs into Dollars
July 22nd, 2009 |
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If the state were to deposit its money in its own state-owned bank, it could have enough credit to solve its budget crisis with funds to spare.
Stroger To Turn Over Cell Phone Records After Lawsuit
July 21st, 2009 |
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Cook County Board President Todd Stroger’s office now plans to release cellphone records as soon as later today of the four people at the center of a hiring scandal in his administration: Stroger himself, his chief communications officer Gene …
Candidates Turn To Lobbyists For Fundraising Help
July 18th, 2009 |
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A number of candidates facing tough re-election bids are turning to K Street for fundraising help.
July 15 was the first time that candidates’ political committees had to detail to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) the lobbyists and compa…
Grassley Cracks Sex Joke At Hearing: “People Always Say I Have The Ability To Turn People On”
July 14th, 2009 |
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Congratulations to Senator Chuck Grassley for cracking what may be the best one-liner so far at the Sotomayor confirmation hearings; best of all, it was a sexual innuendo. Following an interruption by an anti-abortion protester during Grassley…
Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Review: Daughtry – Leave This Town
July 13th, 2009 |
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“I practiced this for hours, gone round and round, and now I think that I’ve got it all down…I’m not taking the easy way…
Environmentalists Turn On Obama As Compromiser
July 11th, 2009 |
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For environmental activists like Jessica Miller, 31, the passage of a major climate bill by the House last month should have been cause for euphoria. Instead she felt cheated.
Matthew Filipowicz: Exclusive Audio Of John Ensign Asking His Parents For $96,000
July 10th, 2009 |
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As you may have heard, the John Ensign mistress scandal has taken an odd turn as it was revealed in a statement by Ensign’s lawyer…