Students are using digital file players more and more to listen to downloaded books, textbook study guides and language labs

MADLEN READ

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Lindleigh Whetstone wears headphones as she shoves clothes into the washing machine. Her classmate, Stepheno Zollos, wears them as he shops for groceries. An onlooker might assume the teens are listening to the latest top 40 hit, but they’re really learning Spanish.

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ALBANY, N.Y. — Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s largest memory chip maker, agreed to pay $90-million to settle a lawsuit charging the company and others with price-fixing, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday.

The suit, filed in July, claimed Korean-based Samsung and numerous other companies made secret arrangements to raise the prices of dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, chips. The memory chips are the most commonly used product for storing and retrieving information in computers and electronic devices.

Source: Globe and Mail