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Tag: Mobile Technology

  • My 2011 Predictions

    Well 2010 was certainly an eye opening ride for me, moving between institutions not of my own will and looking to a future that may or may not include academia. But for all that, it has provided me with yet another way of looking at technology and the way that it is used to educate…

  • Japan & DS

    Well it looks like the DS finally has caught on with at least one school – and in Japan to boot – Thanks to Wade for the heads up. At just one-fifteenth of the cost of a personal computer — around 17,000 yen (150 dollars) each — the DS is an economical teaching tool, he…

  • What you don’t know might not exist

    At least when it comes to what your eyes can see and your brain will stitch together. This was something I wrote about for my Masters (I forgot the technical terms for it) but essentially it said that the brain can be fooled because all it’s looking for is a pattern when watching video. So…

  • AT&T Fights back

    It’s not like it’s just any other phone that is the same as any other, the iPhone is certainly a prize for AT&T and one it’s not going to let it get away, so as soon as the unlock program got into the wild, it seems that in the next few days, the legal beagles…

  • Protecting one’s own image

    One of the thoughts that bounced around the noggin this weekend was about how the new term is going to bring a whole host of new people back to campus and schools in general. This is nothing new, It’s happened for more than a century (at least the September return), but as we enter the…