iPhone review confirms the future of learning

In David Pogue’s New York Times (enthusiastic!) review here of Apple’s new iPhone, two powers of the phone are present and functional that come together to truly make 20th century content delivery obsolete. 1) The phone is robustly wireless. 2) The full Internet can be browsed both on the (too slow AT&T network) to which the iPhone is now limited and wirelessly (very fast) in hot spots. The full Internet aspect has a magnification feature: your screen displays the entire width of webpages, and when you want to look more closely at a portion of the page you magnify it by touching the screen with two fingers, spreading the portion you choose to make it bigger.

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Signs of growth, giving mark end of Ramadan

Signs of growth, giving mark end of Ramadan Islamic Society raises $1 million, plans to open high schoolBy TOM HEINEN
theinen@journalsentinel.comPosted: Oct. 13, 2007

West Allis - Raising more than $1 million in donations and pledges during the holy month of Ramadan, the Islamic Society of Milwaukee is poised to purchase a commercial building on Milwaukee's south side and start Wisconsin's first Islamic high school.

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