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Teachers at a Sunderland academy have gone high-tech in a bid to replace traditional teaching methods. Academy 360 has given staff Apple iPhones and plans to give similar technology to pupils.

The school is researching ways to use the Internet on the computer’s applications as a learning tool.

School bosses say youngsters today are perfectly at home with mobile phones, Nintendo Wiis, and PlayStations and many of them spend hours a day chatting on social networking sites.

Academy 360 is working with the University of Hull to instruct teachers in the technology young people use.

Teachers are being encouraged to explore the tools it offers them and put forward suggestions of how it could be included in the curriculum.

Chief executive of Academy 360 Paul Prest believes activities such as blogs, Google and games could be used to teach students.

He hopes to give each pupil an iTouch hand set which has the same features as

(RTTNews) -  Steve Jobs is ready to return to the helm of Apple Inc. (AAPL:  News ) by the end of this month, sticking to an earlier announced schedule. But, whether Jobs would be back in time to take the wraps of a new iPhone at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference next week is unclear.

Analysts expect the company to unveil at the conference the latest model iPhone, which has more processing power and new features like video editing. The launch is expected in June or July, when original iPhone owners on a two-year service contract with AT&T Inc. (T) will be eligible for an upgrade.

Jobs announced his leave on January 14, and though the initial reaction was tumultuous, the past 5 months, the company has been operating smoothly without papa. The stock has in fact risen 68.4% in his absence, reflecting investor confidence.

Apple doled out a decent second-quarter report card,

By Dave Oliver

It can’t have been easy for Sony to have watched its iconic Walkman brand of portable music players so completely overtaken by Apple’s all-conquering iPod. But like John Connor standing up to the Terminators, Sony has finally come up with a device capable of fighting back. We took a close look at both devices to see which is worthy of your hard-earned.

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The iPod Touch is slimmer but bigger at 110x62x9mm and 115g compared to the X-series’ 97x53x11mm and 98g, though the Touch’s angled sides make it appear slimmer than it actually is. The Touch does look sleeker, though the Walkman’s rugged stone-effect sides and compact dimensions have a certain appeal. It also has hard buttons on the top and sides which allow you to control playback when it’s in your pocket.
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By Jacqui Cheng

It appears as if Steve Jobs will indeed return to Apple by the end of June after taking a six-month leave from the company. The world is watching to see whether he’ll make a surprise appearance at WWDC next week, though many believe he’s saving that surprise for another time.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs is reportedly on track to return to Apple full-time later this month, right on schedule. Insiders speaking to The Wall Street Journal claim that Jobs’ recovery is “coming along” and that Apple’s directors have been receiving weekly updates since Jobs took leave in January. Whether or not we’ll see him at next week’s WWDC keynote, however, remains up in the air.

“He was one real sick guy,” one of the WSJ’s sources said. “Fundamentally he was starving to death over a nine-month period. He couldn’t digest protein. [But] he took corrective action.”

The iconic CEO has been

By Jonathan Bray

Verdict: Achingly gorgeous and with some intriguing features, but it’s not the most practical of designs

The shuffle has always generated heated debate over the merits of the design. But you could never accuse Apple of resting on its design laurels, and its third generation iPod shuffle is the sexiest yet.

Small enough to pass as a hair clip or over-sized earring, there’s no denying that this little MP3 player has a huge amount of charm.

Apple claims it’s the smallest MP3 player in the world and we wouldn’t quibble: we’ve no idea how the designers managed to squeeze 4GB of memory and a battery big enough to offer ten hours of playback into a package this tiny.

To compensate for the lack of screen, this Shuffle has another trick up its sleeve: VoiceOver. It’s the first MP3 player that can talk to you. It will tell you what track