Blackboard has added the Research in Motion BlackBerry to its list of supported devices for the new Blackboard Mobile platform.
[Source: Campus Technology]
Blackboard Adds BlackBerry App for Mobile Web Platform — Campus Technology
November 11, 2009
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Use stylus instead of fingertip with iPhone & MacBook
November 3, 2009The soft tip of the Pogo Sketch stylus glides easily over the surface of your trackpad or display, making it fun and easy to sketch, draw characters, or just slide to unlock. Sized for comfort, it does away with inaccuracies common to fingertip-only use.
Wear gloves in the winter? With an iPhone, the stylus allows you to answer calls and surf the web all while keeping your hands toasty.
Turn your MacBook trackpad into a pen tablet for premium drawing programs! The new multi-touch trackpads allow the Pogo Sketch to control your favorite drawing programs like, say Scribbles. Any drawing program that accepts mouse input will work.
via Pogo Sketch.
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New iPhone app translates English into Spanish as you speak
October 30, 2009Jibbigo is a new iPhone app that can translate English speech into Spanish—and the reverse—all without going online. You simply launch the $25 app and speak into your iPhones microphone and the translation is played over the speaker.
via New iPhone app translates English into Spanish as you speak | Software | iPhone Central | Macworld.
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The Mad Dash Toward Touch Technology
October 26, 2009Buried within the current mad scramble towards touch and multitouch technologies lies an important lesson in innovation: “God is in the details” (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe).
So while executives and marketers all seem to be saying, “It has to have touch,” I am more inclined to say that anyone who describes a product as having a “touch interface” is likely unqualified to comment on the topic. The granularity of the description is just too coarse. Everything—including touch—is best for something and worst for something else. True innovators needs to know as much about when, why, and how not to use an otherwise trendy technology, as they do about when to use it. Let me explain.
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Inside the App Economy
October 26, 2009It’s easy to shrug off the kooky world of apps. The bite-size software programs people load onto their mobile phones or tap into on the Web seem mostly to be silly games and pointless novelties. But look past the beer-drinking apps and flatulence programs and you’ll see something significant taking shape: a bustling app economy that’s creating new fortunes for entrepreneurs and changing the way business gets done.
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Report Calls for New National Strategy to Invest in Mobile Learning and a Digital Teacher Corps
October 26, 2009Mobile device use is exploding among children worldwide, cell phones and iPods are this generation`s preferred form of social communication. More than half of the world`s population now owns a cell phone and experts project that people will use cell phones as their primary means of accessing the Internet by the year 2020. However, most educators and parents have been skeptical, until now, about mobile devices` value in learning. The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop issued a new study today documenting the untapped potential of mobile learning. The report, drawing on market trends and model programs, outlines the first-ever national mobile learning strategy, urging the Obama administration to make new investments in digital learning technologies and teacher training.
[Source: Reuters]
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WPtouch: Mobile Plugin + Theme for WordPress ↔ BraveNewCode Inc.
October 23, 2009More than just a plugin, WPtouch is an entire theme package for your WordPress website. Modeled after Apple’s app store design specs, WPtouch makes your WordPress website load lightning fast on touch mobile devices, show your content beautifully, all while not interfering with your regular theme.
via WPtouch: Mobile Plugin + Theme for WordPress ↔ BraveNewCode Inc..
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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and other free Kindle books
October 21, 2009If you have a Kindle or Kindle e-Book software for your computer or mobile device (e.g.; iPhone), you can get a small library of free books from Amazon like The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and more.
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Wolfram Alpha launches $50 iPhone app
October 20, 2009Wolfram Alpha, the “computational knowledge engine” with a name that rolls right off the tongue, has until now lived solely as a Web site that can provide cool data results to certain queries. Now, though, iPhone and iPod touch owners can avail themselves of a brand spankin' new $50 Wolfram Alpha app.
You can ask Wolfram Alpha to compute plain-language problems as diverse as “mother's father's nephew” or “9 years six months twelve days from yesterday” or even “population density United States vs France.” You can also feed it mathematical queries like “taylor series x^2 sin^3(x)”.
via Wolfram Alpha launches $50 iPhone app | Software | iPhone Central | Macworld.
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Mobile Educator – Home
October 20, 2009MobileEducator is the fully-customizable mobile application platform for universities, schools, and colleges. MobileEducator has been developed with Admissions marketing in mind. All features are focused on generating awareness, creating interest, and increasing conversions.
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