The application postmark deadline is January 10, 2001. But he said Michigan's current policy, in which African American and Hispanic applicants are given a 20 point increase on a 150 point scale, was perfectly legal. Most selective colleges and universities use race as a factor in admissions, a practice that has been under attack in recent years. For the past five years, the most wired people have been white collar professionals sitting at desks. But now that the focus of marketing and computer manufacturing has shifted to the wireless arena, the white collar workers are less active with the latest technology than workers who are the most mobile.
Wearable computers are a big step beyond cell phones and other hand-held devices.
Equipped with voice-recognition software and processing power equal to that of desktop computers, wearable computers enable workers to send and retrieve detailed information while keeping their hands free for other tasks. Telecommunications technicians, medical professionals, aircraft mechanics, factory inspectors and contractors are now using and testing these wearable computers. One culprit behind Apple's recent financial woes has been lagging education sales, as CEO Steve Jobs has admitted through two consecutive profit warnings. During a recent conference call he discussed Apple's first quarterly loss in three years and pointed specifically to the company's decision to revamp its education sales force last July, at a time when school districts were making purchase decisions. Another problem area has been the transition from At Ease software to Macintosh Manager, which allows administrators to manage client Macs.