If there was any doubt that that the video recording and upload capabilities of Apple’s new iPhone 3GS would signal a new chapter in mobile video sharing, the first statistics quantifying its impact are in, and they’re impressive.
[Source: AppleInsider]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
It isn’t uncommon to find literature rendered in the style of Twitter’s trademarked 140-character blasts. But it’s rare for such tweets to make their way into print.
Yet that’s the concept behind a new book penned by two rising University of Chicago sophomores, titled Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books, Now Presented in Twenty Tweets or Less. The project’s Web site calls it “a humorous retelling of works of great literature in Twitter format.”
[Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education - Wired Campus.com]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). This is the first talk from TED@State, produced in cooperation with the US State Department.
[Source: TED]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
…imagine if you could get online anywhere you liked — in a taxi, on the beach, in a hotel with disgustingly overpriced Wi-Fi — without messing around with cellular modems. What if you had a personal Wi-Fi bubble, a private hot spot, that followed you everywhere you go?
Incredibly, there is such a thing. It’s the Novatel MiFi 2200, available from Verizon starting in mid-May $100 with two-year contract, after rebate. It’s a little wisp of a thing, like a triple-thick credit card. It has one power button, one status light and a swappable battery that looks like the one in a cellphone. When you turn on your MiFi and wait 30 seconds, it provides a personal, portable, powerful, password-protected wireless hot spot.
via New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/technology/personaltech/07pogue.html?_r=3&em
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by Michael Arrington on June 20, 2009
As successful as Pure Digital has been with their Flip line of video cameras – selling $150 million worth of them last year – they face a new type of threat that they can’t defeat. The video capable iPhone, and video mobile phones in general, will make them irrelevant in the next couple of years.
via TechCrunch
http://bit.ly/GhNG
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Posted by Teb Locke
Springer Science and Business Media says it has created a new way for researchers and professors to search, download, and use its collection of 1.5 million images.
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
A new Web site called WolframAlpha not only solves complex math problems, but also can spell out the steps leading to those solutions. For professors, it reopens a debate that started back with the first handheld calculators.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
The new head of Blackboard Inc.‘s course-management-software division, Ray Henderson, started a blog this week, and he’s already facing tough questions from critics.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Forget about making up stories about sick relatives. There’s a new way to get around homework deadlines by sending professors corrupted documents, buying a student extra time because the professor will likely blame computer errors and take hours or days to ask for a new version. There are, however, ways to identify the frauds.
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Northwest Missouri State’s experiment with e-textbooks has yielded a handful of lessons and some surprises
[Source: Chronicle of Higher Education]
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