Saturday, April 10, 2004

Chip start-up boosts Wi-Fi rate by '10-20 times'. The Engim room By Wireless Watch . [The Register] 9:18:04 AM      Google It!.

Philips Demos Keychain-sized Camcorder [Slashdot] not wuite as functional as the MUSTEK DV4000 but smaller and simpler -- BL 9:15:21 AM      Google It!.

Out of Hollywood, Rising Fascination With Video Games. Directors are expected to earn as much money or even more from helping create video games as from making movies. By Laura M. Holson. [New York Times: Technology] 9:11:38 AM      Google It!.

Listen to the Sky [Slashdot] locating mobile phones as dialup listening stations  is a novel broadcast idea and balloons as low flying communication satelites is another novel idea but the combination of listening to the upper wind is less exciting.  Perhaps using those little model planes/drones to carry cellphone conference calls could enable emergency search and rescure to workers effectively cope with difficult terrain.  If one presses the idea just a little so the remotely deployed cellphone also takes snapshots regularly with its digital camera then we have a really protable cellphone wecam that could be used to "broadcast" class meetings and field trips to a dialup community.  Pressing still further this cellphone enabled class would make communication on field trips with both managable and monitorable for elementry school children on up to adults on educational travel tours. The portable cellphone antana raised on a balloon then again seems like a feasible backup when some classmate appeared to be lost or out of sight.  (an antena balloon on a nanofiber string could go pretty high up for wide area coverage),  -- cheers BL 9:10:43 AM      Google It!.

A University Is Not a Business (and Other Fantasies) - Milton Greenberg, Educause Review. Academe emerges from—and largely remains within—a culture that sees only a remote and sometimes hostile relationship between its activities and the economic system. This view takes the form of an often-heard campus expression: "A university is not a bu [Online Learning Update] 8:48:55 AM      Google It!.

Globe and Mail: "Lessig convinced his publisher, Penguin Books, to allow his new book, Free Culture, to come into the world this spring under a Creative Commons licence." [Scripting News] 8:46:51 AM      Google It!.