Can't live without an iPhone?

[Particle Man]

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2346876,00.asp

Want to be the next Bob Woodward? Maybe there will be an app for that.

Aspiring journalism majors at the University of Missouri are being required to purchase either an iPhone or an iPod touch, which will be used to deliver freshman orientation information and other course materials. It will be considered a minimum requirement for course work, the school said.

Students will be able to download course material from the iTunes University, a free aspect of the iTunes store. TigerTech, the school's technology store, estimates that 90 percent of Missouri students already have iPods; the announcement comes just a week after Amazon launched the Kindle DX, with support from universities.

Interesting requirement... wonder if they're in bed with Apple so to speak...