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Updates on: Intel, iPhone, COBOL

Intel celebrates expanding opportunities for 1 million Chinese teachers, 100 million students. Intel expects that 10 million teachers worldwide will complete the training program by 2011. — News Wire

The introduction of such educational applications, coupled with the iPhone’s original design and the surge in the use of handheld computers and iPods in classrooms, has led some educators to explore whether iPhones can be effective classroom tools. — eSchool News

In higher education, COBOL–one of the oldest programming languages and second only to FORTRAN in comedic value–still has a future. According to a survey of CIOs by technology provider Micro Focus, more than 75 percent said they intend to recruit COBOL programmers over the next five years, but 73 percent said they’re having a hard time finding such programmers. — Campus Technology