iTunes Education: How Your iPod Can Help Make You Smarter (2004)

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Need a reason to convince your friends or family to buy you an iPod? Then tell an iTunes education will make them smarter. That’s right, the iPod isn’t just for holding your massive John Tesh CD collection anymore. Apple has started providing free educational content in the iTunes Music Store (iTMS).

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Apple Adds Free Educational Content to iTunes

You can download everything from the 9-11 Commission Hearings and Political Convention Speeches to Apple’s Quarterly Stock reports. The best part is, all of this content for your iTunes education is free! Maybe someday Apple will expand this material and provide content like famous speeches by Martin Luther King and J.F.K. Get ready to Rip, Mix and Learn.

The 2004 Democratic National Convention

• Monday – Terry McAuliffe, Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barbara Mikulski, David Alston, Hillary Clinton (7/26/04) 1:24:40
• Tuesday – Ted Kennedy, Ron Reagan, Teresa Heinz Kerry, Barack Obama, Howard Dean, Richard Gephardt (7/27/04) 1:32:36
• Wednesday – John Edwards, Al Sharpton (Rev. Sharpton’s speech was not provided by CSPAN to the iTMS) (7/28/04) 29:52
• Thursday – John Kerry (7/29/04) 46:35

9/11 Commission Hearings (2004)

• William Cohen (3/23/04) 1:27:21
• Donald Rumsfeld (3/23/04) 1:51:31
• Madeleine K. Albright (3/23/04) 1:20:07
• Staff Statement No. 5: Diplomacy (3/23/04) 42:00
• Staff Statement No. 6: The Military (3/23/04) 33:46
• George J. Tenet (3/24/04) 1:37:49
• Richard A. Clarke (3/24/04) 2:13:26
• Samuel R. Berger (3/24/04) 1:31:04
• Condoleezza Rice (4/8/04) 2:56:11
• Panel: Summer 2001 (4/13/04) 1:47:25
• Janet Reno (4/13/04) 1:17:16
• John Ashcroft (4/13/04) 1:24:58
• Louis J. Freeh (4/13/04) 1:35:07
• Staff Statement No. 9: Counterterrorism, & Intelligence Collection in the US Prior to 9-11 33:11
• Staff Statement No. 10: Threats and Responses in 2001 (4/13/04) 34:41
• Staff Statement No. 11: The Performance of the Intelligence Community (4/14/04) 36:45
• Staff Statement No. 12: Reforming Law Enforcement, Counterterrorism, and Intelligence (4/14/04) 1:03:54
• Panel: Preventing Future Attacks (4/14/04) 1:42:54
• Panel: FBI Leadership and Initiatives Post 9/11 (4/14/04) 1:16:45
• George J. Tenet (4/14/04) 1:37:52

• NYC Panel One (5/18/04) 1:33:30
• NYC Panel Three (5/18/04) 1:53:44
• NYC Panel Two (5/18/04) 1:42:52
• NYC Panel Four (5/19/04) 45:29
• Thomas J. Ridge (5/19/04) 1:25:12
• Rudolph W. Giuliani (5/19/04) 1:34:23
• Rudolph W. Giuliani (5/19/04) 3:02:35
• Michael R. Bloomberg (5/19/04) 27:51
• Staff Statement No. 14: Crisis Management (5/19/04) 29:59

• Panel: Outline of the 9-11 Plot (6/16/04) 1:44:16
• Panel: Al Qaeda (6/16/04) 1:51:32
• Panel: FAA Response On 9-11 (6/17/04) 1:22:39
• Panel: Military Response On 9-11 (6/17/04) 1:47:33
• Staff Statement No. 15: Overview of the Enemy (6/16/04) 41:53
• Staff Statement No. 16: Outline of the 9-11 Plot (6/16/04) 1:04:53
• Staff Statement No. 17: Improvising a Homeland Defense (6/17/04) 1:16:52

• The 9-11 Commission Final Report – Executive Summary (7/22/04) 1:01:44
• The 9-11 Commission Final Report – Press Conference: Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton (7/22/04) 1:19:56

Apple Computer, Inc. Financial Results

• Q3 2004 Apple Quarterly Earnings Call 51:54

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