A report at SPOTLIGHT begins: “As the digital divide closes, thanks in no small part to mobile media, the question is no longer who’s using digital media, but how.” The SPOTLIGHT report review ideas from an interview with Professor S. Craig Watkins, author of The Young & the Digital.
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Digital divide closing with major mobile help
HTC responds to allegations from Apple regarding patent infringements As you may have heard, Apple has filed some legal action against HTC regarding some of its cell phone technology relating back to the iPhone. HTC disagrees and has issued a press release to express the company’s position as such. HTC states that it “will fully defend itself” against any lawsuits and legal action that Apple may take.
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Apple and HTC legal battle continues with a history lesson
Nokia Concept Phone The once king of mobile innovation has launched a new project called “ Design by Community ” whose sole mission is to dive deep in to the hearts and minds of handset users and tech junkies alike, worldwide, in hopes of one day regaining the mobile tech-throne.
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Nokia wants YOU to help design its next smartphone
Hey Vancouver hockey fans! As the hometown Canucks gear up for a potential playoff run, you’ll have an opportunity to meet a couple of the team’s star players and cash in on some free stuff while you’re at it. They’re not quite Roberto Luongo, but you still want to meet these Canucks. I got an email in my inbox from Best Buy , informing me that Alex Burrows will be making an appearance at the Cambie Best Buy on Sunday, March 21st between 2pm and 4pm
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What’s stopping someone from keeping your lost or stolen Android phone and calling it their own? Not much, until now. ActiveTrak announced they will release a new version of their GadgetTrak Mobile Security software for the Android OS at CTIA Wireless 2010 next week. The software allows users to track their devices and data if it were ever to get into the wrong hands. If you have classified information, sensitive business materials, or just some photos of who knows what that you don’t want spread around Facebook, the remote data wipe feature should appeal to you.
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GadgetTrak Mobile Security tracks Android smartphones when lost or stolen
Oxford Science reports on a study of the strategy of queen ants for surviving murderous mobs of workers. They are in danger because: In some ant species, several queen ants work together to begin a new colony, each raising broods of workers until there are enough ants to form a viable colony
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Honest ants smartly handle murderous mobs
Welcome to part 2 of our Sony Ericsson Vivaz review. Today we look at the feature that’s grabbing all the headlines as we put the Vivaz’s HD video capture under the microscope. We also give the 8.1 Megapixel still camera a thorough test drive to see how it performs and check out the uploading facilities on Sony Ericsson’s latest touchscreen phone.
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Sony Ericsson Vivaz Review Part 2: HD Video!
A Wired Campus article reports on a study of student usage of Wikipedia. The finding that the most common reason students go to Wikipedia is to begin research belies the frequent grousing that students probably do not get excellence in research because they rely too much on Wikipedia
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College students mostly begin research at Wikipedia
If you’re after an Android powered mobile phone , you really are spoilt for choice these days, with great offerings from Motorola and HTC as well as exciting new launches from HTC and Sony Ericsson on the horizon. And now, we can add one more name to that list with the arrival of the Acer Liquid which is in stock now at Mobiles.co.uk
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Acer Liquid in stock now at Mobiles.co.uk!
BREAKING NEWS CNET by Daniel Terdiman @GreeterDan Mashable ‘New Version of Digg Revealed’, by @BenParr RT gervis Unveiled at #SXSW Digg 2.0 , ‘faster,’ ‘instant’ http://tinyurl.com/ydhbmb8 more Buzzbox results http://www.buzzbox.com/topic/SXSW/ Just before Digg founder Kevin Rose and his Diggnation partner Alex Albrecht took the stage at Stubb’s BBQ here, CEO Jay Adelson got in front of the audience of hundreds and took the opportunity to introduce, for the first time, what he said was “five years” of major work on the popular headline aggregation system. Real-time results for #digg
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Buzzbox results #SXSW Digg 2.0
Louis Gray reviews on Louisgray.com the presentation of Chris Messina at the South by Southwest Interactive event SXSW . Open source advocate Chris talked on how he and others in the community, both at Google and outside of it, are working to bring more meaning to our social networks, activity, and feeds, through extending today’s data portability standards to include more information and more relevance.
Social networking expert Danah Boyd keynoted the opening remarks at SXWS on Saturday, March 13 with a talk about privacy and publicity. Boyd said that privacy is not dead, but that a big part of our notion of privacy relates to maintaining control over our content, and that when we don’t have control, we feel that our privacy has been violated
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Danah Boyd #sxsw : Privacy and Publicity ‘It’s about control’
The graph shows the burst of new Twitter accounts in 2009, and not so much in 2010. Mashable has a summary article , that includes the graph, of an new Barracuda Labs analysis of Twitter . Here are some key findings: 21% are active users, having tweeted in the past 10 days 26% have ten or more followers 40% following 10 or more users 73% tweeted less than ten minutes Mashable adds: In terms of tweets, the report estimates that 34% of Twitter users hadn’t tweeted even once, while a whopping 73% of Twitter’s users tweeted less than 10 times.
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Twitter pace and power users
hey … i want to know what is the minimum version for android phones to be able to run augmented reality applications?
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The iPhone app from Chipotle, the restaurant chain best known for its burritos, is an interesting mix of simple design, e-commerce functionality and location tools.
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Three lessons from the Chipotle iPhone app – How centralization, a defined use case, and a uniform menu shaped Chipotle’s iPhone app
Please help Help help. I’m in Canada and just got Omnia2 which had no voice dail I dwnld window voice command 1.6 and have copied unzipped and copied to my phone. I located the file and clicked setup and it started to install but got a white blank screen
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I have downloaded both SyncMate and Missing Sync and neither will fully install. I have: Uninstalled one before installing the other; Purchased the pay versions of both programs; Done a hard reset on the phone and the mac; Spent countless hours going through every blog, support site, etc.
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SatScan — Free software that analyzes spatial, temporal and space-time data using the spatial, temporal, or space-time scan statistics. It is designed for any of the following interrelated purposes: Perform geographical surveillance of disease, to detect spatial or space-time disease clusters, and to see if they are statistically significant; Test whether a disease is randomly distributed over space, over time or over space and time; Evaluate the statistical significance of disease cluster alarms; Perform repeated time-periodic disease surveillance for early detection of disease outbreaks.
In an earlier post, I examined the average price of the Top 100 PAID apps and noted that the relationship between price and popularity was somewhat dependent on the category. But in the Book category, I concluded that the Top 10 PAID apps were on average cheaper than those ranked 91-100
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Long Tail iTunes Book Apps Are More Expensive
Visualize open networks–and remember how far we’ve already come from the days before flat-rate long distance phone calls (much less app stores for cell phones).
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One hundred eighty degrees of freedom: signs of how open platforms are spreading