Tag: Ubergadget

  • Mobile vs Desktop

    Remember then sites were coded for lowband and highband? Well it is increasingly becoming the case that there will be a need for mobile and desktop (CG).

  • TNS Report – 3/4 of messages worldwide “Sent while mobile”

    This is an interesting report that suggests that the sending of messages is going to be almost exclusively a mobile enterprise within the next few years.

  • DOTGO makes “dumb phones” smarter

    I just spotted this – DOTGO is a service that will return search results to your SMS enabled phone for “free”. I use quotes, because there may be ads later as there is a tab on the website for advertisers. Using it is pretty easy – txt a domain that you want to search to…

  • Two edges of mobile

    As I’m cutting through emails, tweets and stared items in my reader, I’m finding that a whole pile of stuff happened while I was “gone”. One of the things that I remember “starting” before I left was something about Pennsylvania banning, or trying to ban cell phones (and other mobile devices) in schools. I remember…

  • Teens/Twenty Somethings, Sex and Tech

    While this is not as relevant to the instructors that I work with, it is certainly something that impact students from Jr. High to the end of their undergraduate degree. “This” of course is sex. Many parents/teachers/admins are terrified of technology, not because of how it might be used to cheat on exams, but rather,…