US university students choose iPods over beer

A few snippets from this Yahoo! News article:

The iPod's "in" factor has leapt more than 20 percentage points from last year's student survey. Part of the explosion in its popularity may be due to the iPod's use as a learning tool in the form of "podcasting", technology that allows students to download lectures directly into their handheld devices to be listened to and viewed at their convenience, suggested Weil.

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