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Friday, 02 November 2007 |
It has been a very busy Fall for mobile learning. We are making plans to upgrade this site and add some new features, but want to wait until the new Joomla is released (hopefully very soon now). We'd love to hear what else would make this a valuable site for those interested in mobile learning.
Some recent happenings of interest include:
 T-Mobile is offering one year of complimentary T-Mobile HotSpot service to those who participate in the Give One Get One campaign to put laptops into the hands of children in the developing world. This service is normally $29.99 per month with a 12-month commitment. From Nov. 12 to Nov. 26, 2007 – people can donate $399 for two laptops. One laptop will be given to a child in the developing world. The other laptop will be sent to the donor along with information on how to activate the one year of complimentary T-Mobile HotSpot service. More information is available at http://www.laptopgiving.org/ and http://hotspot.t-mobile.com .
 Philippe Kahn's new company Fullpower began to come out of stealth mode with some very exciting technology. (Philippe is the mathematician who originally started Borland, invented the camera phone and several other accomplishments.) Philippe and his wife, Sonya, have been working on this for the past 5 years and have over 50 partners in the life sciences area. They appear to have to complete solution for the future. From their web site "The Fullpower inference engine is the breakthrough technology that makes it all happen. Fullpower’s all-in-one complete solution allows multiple applications to concurrently take advantage of motion, imaging, and other sensors such as proximity, ambient light, pressure, compass, GPS, heart rate, and blood glucose. The Fullpower solution is designed to minimize integration efforts for the device manufacturer and maximize benefits to the end-user." Definitely a site
we will continue to monitor.
Ford announced their new Sync service will be available in 12 Ford, Lincoln and Mercury products and nearly all of the company's products within two years. This integrated solution has great potential for performance support and mobile training for road warriors. See the article in the Chicago Sun-times.
Two recent articles from the MIT Technology Review of interest to the future of mobile devices include a new type of MEMS-based electronic paper for cell phones which is fast enough to show video (E-Paper Displays Video by Duncan Graham-Rowe) and a nanotech-enabled device that could replace the flash memory used in portable electronics (Terabyte Storage for Cell Phones by Kevin Bullis).
Bug Labs introduced BUG, a new kind of mobile device, one that's designed by you. BUG is an open source, modular consumer electronics platform that makes building hardware just as easy as writing software or Web applications. The first base units are scheduled to ship this quarter along with snap-on modules for GPS; digital camera/videocam; touch-sensitive, color LCD screen; and accelerometer/motion sensor.
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