This week, a student pal brought up the topic of mlearning. As I've posted on my blog for some time now, I too feel that there has to be some learning (edtech) opportunity for mobile devices when an estimated 80% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 own cell phones, as reported in…
This is cool! Now how to explain it . . . the best thing to do is go to the site (textmark.com) and look at the nifty diagram they have concocted to explain it. In a nutshell, TextMark.com is an Internet based text messaging service where you set up a "message" that others can receive…
Back in April, I made a post about my new Cingular 8125. I had owned the phone for a day and had gotten off to a rocky, yet still promising start. I have now had 5 months to play with it, so I've collected my thoughts on the experience: The good (or not so bad):…
While I normal limit my referrals to "free stuff", this one falls in the "inexpensive" category. Given that I am a horrible speller, I may just have to shell out a few bucks to try one of the Merriam-Webster mobile dictionaries. For under $20, you can get one with 40,000 definitions, a thesaurus and audio…
Telephia recently released a report on mobile Internet usage. While the subscriber rate is increasing, the access and experience still lags far behind Internet browsing via the computer. According to their research, 34.6m mobile subscribers (presumably just in Europe, US and Canada?) accessed the Internet on their mobile device in June 2006 – up about…
I have tried what seems like a million RSS aggregators and keep coming back to Bloglines. It has proven to be an efficient web based solution when I'm on my laptop (that I can also access from any computer when I'm away from home), but it is by far the best option I have come…
According to a recent article in Business 2.0, e-mail use is dropping among teens in favor of real time IM and text messaging. In my courses at IU, we share a lot of information via e-mail, but we also have weekly discussions via IM. While we also use Breeze for the more "formal" classroom-like discussions,…
The buzz today is that Sony is ready to introduce the new $350 mylo (short for my life online), a wi-fi enabled "broadband communicator" that doesn't have a cell phone (hence, no cell carrier Internet access). While the lack of a phone avoids the relatively high monthly data plans from a cell carrier, it would…
Back in 2003, Intel's introduction of the microchip for cell phones and PDAs was part of "The Great Cell Phone Chip Race". I wonder why Intel decided to cash in its chips? MobHappy wonders the same thing. Blogged with Flock
Accessing and reading Internet content on a mobile device is a pain. It is typically very slow and hard to view. While some sites have optimized their content for users who access the site on a mobile device (Google, Yahoo! and Bloglines just to name a few), the mobile Internet experience is generally bad and…