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When Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs' open letter entitled "Thoughts on Music" was posted on Apple's Web site last week, it stirred up a new round of controversy over digital rights management (DRM), the technologies used to prevent piracy of online digital music.

      80GB: 20,000 Songs 2.5-inch color display 5.5 ounces 2.4 x 4.1 x .55 inches $349.00 Your thinking, is this guy full of it, or what? Can you afford to miss your chance by having doubts? Stay tuned, on November 22nd, I’ll announce the winner here in an update to this post. Tony Miller 10/30 Contest Update: Contest has been extended to include 2nd and 3rd place iPod winners. One del.icio.us user who bookmarked this page, will be selected at random, as the 2nd place winner of a 4GB iPod nano. 4GB: 1,000 Songs 1.5-inch color display 1.41 ounces 1.6 x 3.5 x 0.26 inches 199.00 One del.icio.us user who bookmarked this page, will be selected at random, as the 3rd place winner of a 1GB iPod shuffle. 1GB: 240 Songs 1.62 x 1.07 x 0.41 inches 0.55 ounce 79.00

Apple shares common goals with education — to advance teaching, learning, and research through innovation, and to engage and empower students. Students expect a campus environment that accommodates their digital lifestyle, adapts to their individual learning needs, and encourages collaboration and teamwork. Introducing a way to simplify and meet all these needs — iTunes U. Education beyond the classroom. iTunes U* is a free, hosted service for colleges and universities that provides easy access to their educational content, including lectures and interviews, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Based on the same easy-to-use technology of the iTunes Store, iTunes U also offers typical Apple simplicity and portability. Through iTunes U, students can download content to their Macs or PCs, regardless of their location. They can listen to and view that content on their Mac or PC, or transfer it to iPod for listening or viewing on the go. Instructors can easily post and change content on their own without impacting the IT department. And, of course, students can upload their own content to share with professors or with the class. It stands out. And fits in. iTunes U is the easiest, most powerful way to manage a broad range of audio or video content and make it available quickly and easily to students, faculty, and staff. And it is the only application that supports the overwhelmingly popular iPod. iTunes U complements other higher education online learning systems, leveraging existing investments in technology infrastructures.** And thanks to Apple’s hardware and software integration and management tools, it all works together. Sound academics. Legal music. In addition to providing a great conduit for digital academic content, iTunes is also the largest source of legal digital music available online. So students can buy and download music that has both educational and entertainment value, with all copyrights honored and the full support of the music industry.