Thursday, January 06, 2005

Hitachi to Release Half TB Drive Soon [Slashdot:] 5:46:33 PM      Google It!.

Predictions For 2005. Predictions for the new year, with a lot of emphasis on alternatives to courses (Elliott Masie: "More learners are grazing content to select just those modules that they need RIGHT NOW!") and to course management systems (Michael Feldstein: "The three major commercial vendors of Course Management Systems (Blackboard, WebCT, and Angel) will begin to make visibly defensive moves in response to the growing threat from open-source alternatives."). My own predictions ("Consolidation and culture wars") are also included. By Lisa Neal, eLearn Magazine, January 6, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 5:42:03 PM      Google It!.

First Peek at Robosapien V2 [Slashdot:] not quite ready to shovel snow unfortunately -- BL 5:39:42 PM      Google It!.

Press release: "WNYC Radio today announced that NPR's On the Media, which WNYC produces, is now available for podcasting. This is the first National Public Radio program to take advantage of this new technology." [Scripting News] not for profit instittutions will find that this is a very powerful technology for spreading the work about their good works.  -- BL 5:36:05 PM      Google It!.

Space Robot Maker MDA Nets Hubble Repair Deal. VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. said on Wednesday it has signed a $154 million deal to help NASA's controversial repair mission to fix the aging Hubble Space Telescope. [Reuters: Science] 9:47:16 AM      Google It!.

Sirius Radio Will Offer Satellite Television Service for Cars. Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. said that it planned to offer a satellite TV service for cars, in partnership with the Microsoft Corporation. By By BLOOMBERG NEWS. [NYT > Technology] 9:46:04 AM      Google It!.

Prodigem Hosting Service [Edubloggers Links Feed] This type of service has considerable potential as an institutional education model for idstribution of media intensive learning materials outside of the browser viewer model for time-shfted usability. -- BL 9:36:44 AM      Google It!.

LegalTorrents - Your source for legal BitTorrent files [Edubloggers Links Feed] 9:32:20 AM      Google It!.

Mobdex - Content for Mobiles [Edubloggers Links Feed] 9:29:37 AM      Google It!.