News Links -- Thursday -- The Origin of The Term "IVY League"

Ivy League 1954: "Ivy League" an official designation for athletic conference that included Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornell; eight of the oldest and most prestigious all-male academic institutions in America; 1930s" IV League (as in Roman numeral IV (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia), 1930s.  Google dress codes, WSJ.

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The original MDW wrote about this when Apple introduced the iPad: airlines handing out iPads. Google airlines entertain table ideas, WSJ. Other iPad uses we will see (which MDW also blogged about several years ago) or examples of new uses already being seen:

• iPads replace hard-copy menus
• iPads replace entertainment/turn-by-turn map user interface on automobile dashboards
• car salesmen use iPads on the lot; the iPad is given to the customer when she signs
• real estate use iPads at open houses (in California, they already do)
• Belly.com is using iPads at checkout counters across the midwest and the eastern seaboard
• iPads embedded in walls next to doors in hospitals, university rooms (names, scheduling, notices)
• an iPad embedded into the cabinet door above the baking area in the kitchen

For those who have never visited an Apple store, there is an iPad next to each product being featured; in a typical Apple store there are probably 40 iPads for that purpose only. More stores will follow suit.

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