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Monday, October 07, 2002
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i07/07a03301.htm Colleges experiment with hand-held devices -- with mixed results SCOTT CARLSON Last year, the University of South Dakota started requiring its freshmen to bring Palm hand-held computers to class, along with their notebooks and texts. Josh Carr was part of that first Palm-equipped group, though he says he didn't use the device much in class. He loaded his class schedule onto the machine and noted his exam times. And, new to the university, he used a campus map that the Palm came with, which showed the locations and phone numbers of his professors. It also came with the names and numbers of hangouts in Vermillion, he says. "For example, it has the number to Pizza Hut."...
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