Foundation Approves $290 Million in Grants to Support Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching; Also Announces $45 Million for Measures of Effective Teaching Research Project
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced that it will invest $335 million to support effective teaching as a means to ensure all students receive the education they need to succeed [...]

Industry Leaders Ramp-up Momentum In Advance of PM’s U.S. Visit
NEW DELHI, INDIA – November 10, 2009 – Industry leaders from the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), led respectively by Chairman & CEO of PepsiCo, Indra K. Nooyi, and TVS Group Chairman, Venu Srinivasan, met face-to-face in New Delhi to discuss [...]

The editors of iLounge proudly announce the winners of the prestigious iPod + iPhone Best of the Year Awards. From cases to speakers, games and applications, the Awards spotlight top picks across major Apple hardware and software categories, and were selected by iLounge’s editors without any influence from advertisers, Apple, or other interests. Recipients were [...]

Seattle-based Nanaimo Studio today introduces Idea Organizer 1.0, their new free-form note taking and organizer utility for iPhone and iPod touch. Developed specifically to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique capabilities and interface, Idea Organizer is a simple yet powerful tool that lets anyone quickly record their ideas, reminders and notes in whatever form that [...]

Calf Trail Software today released Geotagalog 1.4, their innovative tracklog based geotagging utility for Mac OS X. Geotagalog enables precise iPhoto Places support with any digital camera. It automatically combines digital photos with location data from a GPS tracklog. Version 1.4 brings significant performance improvements and better control over which files are imported into iPhoto.
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BeBop Games today announced the first person to solve their What is this App? game for iPhone and iPod touch. As its name suggests, the puzzle challenges users to figure out its identity. Meredith Kenaston became the first person to solve What is this App?, solved 29 days after its release. The puzzle tests trivia, [...]

Seattle based Instant Voodoo Magic introduces Newsie 1.0, their new smartly design Google Reader client for iPhone and iPod touch. Designed specifically to leverage the iPhone’s unique interface, Newsie works directly with Google Reader to ensure the news readers see on their phone is the same as the news they will see on the web, [...]

Eltima Software today announces the forthcoming Folx release and starts pre-order campaign. Get Folx PRO license with 50% discount. Folx is a handy download manager for Mac which provides you with various options to manage your downloads. Folx transparently splits your downloads into multiple threads downloaded simultaneously, and increasing your download speed significantly.
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Seattle based CVZ Productions today released Daily Tracker 3.0, an update to their personal organizer for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Designed specifically to take advantage of the iPhone’s unique capabilities and interface, Daily Tracker allows users to track virtually anything. Users can quickly choose from an existing category, or easily create a custom one [...]

unmarked software today announced TextSoap 6.3.1, an update to its text processing utility for Mac OS X. The TextSoap 6.3.1 update is a maintenance release designed to address additional issues reported under Snow Leopard. Whether it is Mail, AppleWorks, BBEdit, or TextEdit, TextSoap provides integration options such as Services Menu support, Shortcut Menu and Application [...]