"For students, a good digital piano is better than a mediocre upright, " said Andrea McAlister, associate professor of piano pedagogy at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where, as at most schools, students learn basic keyboarding skills on digital instruments.

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That would be a dramatic shift for Apple, whose mobile processors are based on the same basic ARM design used by Nvidia and Texas Instruments.

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Nokia announced an alliance with Texas Instruments to create the blueprints and basic chipsets for the future phones, saying the details of the designs would be available to any and all interested handset makers.

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Their basic concept is to use light to transmit the quantum information using interferometers, which are instruments that change the frequency of light waves, then recombine them to get particular effects.

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The basic design is licensed by ARM Holdings to a wide variety of companies that design processors, including Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Samsung, and Apple, that meet their needs.

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