Tag: (Ubiquitous) Computing
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Microsoft goes WiFi
It looks like MS is following Google by setting up a municipal WiFi (Google News). It seems that (at least to me) Google has really started a push away from the desktop that is bound to a single location and now MS is following. If you think about it, it’s to MS’s advantage to do…
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Symbian thinks that the PC has flatlined
C|Net reported last week from the Symbian Smartphone show that Nigel Clifford believes that with all the growth that the developing world has seen with regards to mobile phones and computers that phones are the way to go (think about it this way even if you don’t believe them, phones and computers are almost the…
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eLearn 2006 – Saturday
Cool papers: Effective Use of Cellular Phones in a Large Class for Activating Students’ Participation (Wada, Nakanishi, Tatsuta) Dokkyo University, Japan HipBone Games in Higher Education: Supporting Critical and Creative Thinking (Bures) Bishop’s University, Canada Playing Games: Best Practices for Educational Games in E-Learning (Bakisian) University of San Francisco The theme of Saturday morning was…
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Life after .mac
I’ll admit, I can be an Apple Fanboy at times, using their products religiously as for a while, it seemed that they fit what I wanted to do perfectly. And for the most part this is the case, but now that I’ve freed myself of .mac and have been experimenting with FireFox 2 and getting…
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More Spore
Again, this is one of those few articles that I jumped the NYT login hoops to get. Bill found the article and pointed out one passage, but I have a different one that I think is telling – not so much about the game, but in terms of how we may want to look at…