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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
I wrote a month ago about a school district in North Carolina that is using smart phones in class as a platform for learning.
Mobile devices could be a great way to integrate technology into the classroom. They are inexpensive, ubiquitous, and are designed for communication. A lot of kids have ...
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
In response to the recent Parks Associates study that said that around one fifth of American heads-of-households had never used email, the Next Web Blog put up a post with some comments from Amazon's CTO Werner Vogels.
Amazon focuses on keeping prices low, and so naturally attracts lower income individuals. Vogels ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
The ITU, or International Telecommunication Union, has produced another video about their efforts to connect a remote and impoverished area of Honduras. They sent out a technician to install a wireless telephone that locals can use to communicate. This kind of thing can make a big impact in communities, allowing ...
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
A recent survey from marketing firm Parks Associates has found that around one in every five American house-holds have never used email or any other Internet service. So potentially one in five Americans have never used email.
The survey interviewed heads-of-households and found that of those that had never used email, ...
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Source: IDC/Nortel White Paper -
The Hyperconnected: Here They Come!
A post by Steve Rubel up on his site Micro Persuasion, points at a gap between the hyperconnected and the rest of the world. The term comes from a recent IDC/Nortel study that surveyed people for the number of communication devices and ...
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
The UN's Commission on Science and Technology for Development will be looking at the progress on goals later this month set forth by the World Summit on the Information Society, WSIS, which was held in 2003 and 2004. The goal of the WSIS is to outline ways to promote an ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Earthlink has announced that they will turn off the municipal WiFi in Philadelphia in June. The system never ended up being as popular as Earthlink needed it to be. They wanted 100,000 customers, they have a little more than 5000. Earthlink is also planning on shuttering, shelving or selling all ...
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
I spoke with Chicago Public Library's marketing director, Ruth Lednicer, about what they are doing for city residents. I asked her about the Cyber Explorer program, which pays college students to teach library patrons how to use the Internet, and about other ways the library is working on fulfilling ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Oxford professor and neuroscientist, Susan Greenfield, said children's brains are rotting from too much exposure to technology. In an interview for The Sunday Times Life & Style section about her life and work, Greenfield discusses her theory about the effect of video games and Internet Media exposure on the brain ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Because broadband isn't expensive enough already I suppose.
Last month I wrote about a West Coast ISP that began offering high-speed Internet plans with download limits. According to a piece at Broadband Reports, Comcast is considering putting a 250GB download limit on customers and charging fees for exceeding the limit.
Comcast has ...
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