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Category: (Ubiquitous) Computing

  • Rooted my “Telus” Hero

    Well, after lots of research to make sure I understood what I was getting into, making sure I had enough lingo to ask a good question should I run into trouble and most importantly clearing up time in my schedule to do so, I finally took the plunge and rooted my Telus (130) Hero. Why?…

  • Connecting the roots to the leaves – initial ideas for my PhD

    Yesterday I met up with Terry Carson in Secondary Education and we went over some ideas and I’ve put them together and put them out there to see what everyone who cares to comment out there thinks. So here it is: Problem that needs exploring: How to get the rank and file of the University…

  • A year after the invasion/revolution

    A year ago I blogged about Rogers bringing Android handsets into Canada and I was wondering about Rogers/Google pushing out ads over the OS and the cost of the handsets. A year on, it seems that my fears of ads being pushed out over the OS were a bit unfounded (for the moment) on the…

  • Should we think of the ubergadget as a sensor instead?

    This interesting graphic brings to light a couple of really interesting points. The first is the fact that the key thing to remember about mobile is that you don’t need “everything”, you just need “enough”. That “enough” may be the ability to simply see content from an online source, other times you want to be…

  • What is Mobile?

    John Battelle has an interesting take on what is mobile in a recent post of his. He says: Mobile is not a singular use case. Mobile is related to an ecosystem of local (where I am), realtime (what I’m doing right now), and social (who I’m with, who I want to tell about what I’m…