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Category: (Ubiquitous) Computing

  • Thumb it right and meet in the middle

    In order to communicate a message needs to encoded and decoded in an efficient manner. One of the knocks on SMS is that it might take less time to hammer out, but that it seems to take longer to read. Thankfully now, we have some evidence to this effect.Of course there is some influence of…

  • Cram – baby steps into mLearning

    One of the oldest forms of mLearning is the flash card, and now there is an app for the iPhone and the Blackberry that recreates that. Cram seems to be a decent, if simple little app to get moving down the road to mLearning.

  • Mobile Connectivity

    The BBC is reporting that according to Neilsen, mobile net usage is growing faster than wired usage – fueled by “immediate info” searches for weather and sports in additon to “email” (I’m thinking Social Networking). So it seems that mLearning is something that will happen informally before formal education ever gets around to addressing it.…

  • The coolest tools are invisible – are IDers pushing the wrong edge?

    One of the things that I had a chance to do while I was recovering over the first couple weeks after surgery was to hunt down books on Amazon. One of them was Clay Shirky’s book “Here Comes Everybody“. I don’t remember how I came across this, but I remembered that it hit me as…

  • Intel’s Classmate PC/Laptop/Netbook is almost here

    It’s been almost a year since there was any big news in the kinderlappy/UMPC front. But now Intel has released a pre-production model – and while small, it seems like it is going to be a real geek pleaser. Schools might be willing to pay the slight premium for it’s ruggedized body: The 2go tablet…