Tuesday, January 03, 2006

wireless elearing platform Motorola Starts Radio Service for Cellphones. Motorola expects iRadio, featuring 435 channels, to be sold by wireless service providers to their subscribers for between $7 and $10 a month. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. [NYT > Technology] -- perhaps it is time to lobby for some free educational iRadio channels for public radio and for college iRadio to provide balance.  With the iTunes format which includes graphics (for album covers) it is feasible to broadcast chalk&talk classes and likely ppt&talk classes as iRadio versions of podcasts.  This may be especially attractive in underdeveloped countries where the cellphone is the cheapest and most available educational platform. -- BL 10:27:34 PM    comment

search plus office utilities Forecast for Google Put at $600 a Share. The investment firm Piper Jaffray raised its price target on shares of the Internet search provider to $600 from $445, a 35 percent increase. By REUTERS. [NYT > Technology] -- that would push the market value of google stock from 120 billion to about 200 billion.--BL 10:18:44 PM    comment

open content BBC Presents An Open News Archive. [Slashdot] 7:56:33 PM    comment

disruptive Google PC to Hit Walmart?. [Slashdot] 9:31:08 AM    comment

eContent mapping Visual explanations. Over the weekend my local newspaper syndicated a Washington post story about the challenges that Microsoft is facing. It included a large infographic which caught my eye. For Christmas I got two of Edward Tufte's books that I've read but never owned: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information and Visual Explanations. After rereading them, it's painful to look at newspaper and magazine infographics. ... [Jon's Radio] 9:14:55 AM    comment

wireless elearing platform Samsung Shows Off 3.6Mbps Cellular. [Slashdot] "The phone, equipped with an MSM6280 chip from the Qualcomm of the United States, enables users to download music or other multimedia content at a speed of 3.6 megabits per second, or approximately 10 MP3 music files a minute." with an ajax enabled browser this could be an effective just-in-time elearning platform in spite of the small screen format --BL 9:09:59 AM    comment

networks Email Plugs Into Social Networking. [Slashdot] this can go some distance in dealing with the spam problem as a byproduct -- BL 9:03:22 AM    comment