Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Grading the Digital School: Apple Woos Educators With Trips to Silicon Valley — SAN FRANCISCO — Three times over the last two years, school officials from Little Falls, Minn., have escaped the winter cold for two-day trips to Silicon Valley. Their destination: the headquarters of Apple.
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Now, to Find a Parking Spot, Drivers Look on Their Phones — SAN FRANCISCO — It is the urban driver’s most agonizing everyday experience: the search for an empty parking place. — It is part sleuthing and part blood sport. Circling, narrowly missing a spot, outmaneuvering other motorists …
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Digital Devices Deprive Brain of Needed Downtime — SAN FRANCISCO — It’s 1 p.m. on a Thursday and Dianne Bates, 40, juggles three screens. She listens to a few songs on her iPod, then taps out a quick e-mail on her iPhone and turns her attention to the high-definition television.