MacNN | Stanford News http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us Stanford, Latest News, Headlines, Stories; http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ College handing out iPhones to freshmen http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/02/26/iphones.for.freshmen/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0802/iphone-top3.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Abilene Christian University will be delivering an Apple iPhone or iPod Touch to all members of its incoming class in 2008. Freshmen will use the iPhones or iPod Touches to receive homework alerts, answer in-class surveys and quizzes, get directions to their professors' offices, and check their meal and account balances - "among more than 15 other useful web applications already developed," said A... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/02/26/iphones.for.freshmen/ Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:15:00 GMT Stanford, iTunes release Lively Arts gift cards http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/01/31/stanford.lively.arts.cards/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0801/30-stanford-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Stanford University is teaming up with iTunes to provide Lively Arts gift cards, a sampler card that offers attendees to the Lively Arts events 10 free downloads of featured artists. The iTunes sampler card will be given out from January 25th until March 15th at the various events, and will also be available to users through various campus services. Students who can't attend the Lively Arts events... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/01/31/stanford.lively.arts.cards/ Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:50:00 GMT Stanford tech offers 10X jump in battery life http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/12/19/stanford.nanowire.battery/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0712/stanfordnanowires.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A new nanotechnology development should produce a major increase in the power available from lithium-ion battery technology, according to a report from Stanford University. While current batteries are limited to holding a relatively small amount of lithium by the need to use carbon for the anode that supplies the battery's current, the new technique developed by assistant professor Yi Cui instead... http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/12/19/stanford.nanowire.battery/ Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:05:00 GMT