Category: (Ubiquitous) Computing

  • Mobile Data Usage is Booming

    Administrators always want to look at metrics to decide if it is “worth” investing resources into a “new” technology or paradigm. One of these “new” technologies/paradigms in higher ed is mobile content delivery. Citing that there is no way to know if students are going to make use of mobile friendly resources, they will often…

  • Blackberry tethering for Mac/*nix systems

    RIM has now enabled tethering via the Desktop Manager, but as ‘berry users know, that is Windows only. So us non Windows people have been left to our own devices to cook up scripts or work through the hit and miss of Bluetooth connections. That is until now… berry4all is a little app that will…

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  • Here’s an idea – mLearning in India

    You don’t need to understand the language to get thepint – which makes this all the more powerful. Granted it is an ad, but the idea (no pun intended) is there.

  • Fruit is in the trees – the Apple tablet in Education

    Christopher Dawson over at ZD Education posted today about the rumoured Apple table, he’s not the only, first or last individual to do so I would imagine. But his take on it is that it will be a non starter in Education without textbook publishers onboard to provide app versions of their content. It seems…