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While I'm away...Kindlenomics and OLPC revisited

Since my wife is 6 months pregnant and my mom is visiting from Seattle, we've decided to take a night away while said mom watches the kids. As a result, you get one more repost. I'll be back tomorrow, recharged after a bed and breakfast getaway; it will...

Tags: Student, Hardware, Textbook, One Laptop Per Child Project, Kindle, Kindroid, XO 2.0, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-07-30

OLPC is dead...What Kindlenomics taught us

Fellow ZDNet blogger, Jason Perlow, wrote a neat piece suggesting that, if electronic versions of most college textbooks existed, it wouldn't take many semesters for the average undergraduate to pay for the Kindle on which to read them. In fact, with a fair amount of arm-waving, it wasn't too...

Tags: Student, Hardware, Textbook, One Laptop Per Child Project, Kindle, Kindroid, XO 2.0, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-16

A Kindroid in every pot?

A Kindroid in every pot?We need open source text books as well. Text books are still way tooexpensive, and the friction of paying the licenses and keeping track of them would kill this kind of roll-out.Silliest idea everIf you start mixing and matching functions of different devices, you turn it...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Text Book, Electrovaya, Kindroid, pot, tablet

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

A Kindroid in every pot?

Fellow blogger, Jason Perlow, has written a couple of interesting pieces lately on ways to get cheap ebook readers/tablets into both students' and consumers' hands. In, "Kindroid: Two great tastes that would taste great together" he described how an Android-based Kindle ebook reader could allow this platform to really...

Tags: Kindroid, E-books, Tablets, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-10

Kindroid: Two Great Tastes that would taste great together

Kindroid: Two Great Tastes that would taste great togetherGet a netbookYou now try to present your absurd arguments in another post!I'm watching you Barney! ;)RE: Kindroid: Two Great Tastes that would taste great togetherAh, yes. The subject how electronic books would become popular (and even, possibly, replace paper-based books)...

Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, Kindroid, Sprint Communications

Discussion threads 2008-10-23

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Smart.fm - almost enough to make me want an iPhone

I really don't want an iPhone. I'm holding out for a Droid, just as soon as I figure out some way to justify getting rid of my perfectly adequate BlackBerry. However, the iPhone has lots of apps and one in particular is being unveiled today: Smart.fm's iPhone interface...

Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Smart.fm, iPhone App, RTI, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-11-02

News to know: L.A. goes Google; AMD-Galleon; Cisco-ScanSafe; Ubuntu; Amazon RDS

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Larry Dignan: WSJ: AMD's former CEO was a Galleon tipster Sam Diaz: Cisco continues its buying spree with...

Tags: Tom Foremski, Ubuntu, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, ScanSafe, Mary Jo Foley, Amazon.com Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz, Microsoft Windows 7, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows, Tablets, Internet, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Enterprise Software

Blog posts 2009-10-28

What does the Nook need to be Ed Tech's e-book holy grail?

The Nook may not be the holy grail of educational e-readers; I don't think that exists yet. But if its Kindroid lineage can spur a bit of development, we may be a lot closer than we think. by Christopher Dawson

Tags: Holy Grail, E-book, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-10-27

Congratulations B&N, you've built my Kindroid. So now what?

I like it butstill a bit pricey for being a one trick pony. Once we get below $200 then I'd be interested. The Nookie Book......sorry, that's Nook eBook... actually looks pretty good. It's a much better value than the Kindle, IMHO. Still not at my price point, but it's pretty...

Tags: PDAs, Nook, card

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

Congratulations B&N, you've built my Kindroid. So now what?

The Barnes and Noble "Nook", which was launched earlier this month, is the real-life version of the "Kindroid" I envisioned one year ago. Now that it has been built for real, what do we do with it? by Jason Perlow

Tags: Jason Perlow, Barnes & Noble Inc.

Blog posts 2009-10-27

All Kindles Should be Virtual

Kindle books can now be purchased directly from Amazon.com on a PC or Mac using a standard web browser, and read on an iPhone, without actually owning a Kindle device. Why not take it to the next logical step -- read it on anything? (Click photo...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Amazon.com Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Amazon Kindle, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, E-books, Desktops, Handhelds, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-03-04

Why Amazon needs Kindle 2.0

Kindle-mania has arrived this holiday season -- but will it stay for good? In a recent article on Forbes.com, Andy Greenberg writes that Amazon's next e-reader won't be a game-changer, but it will keep killing the competition -- and that's why Amazon needn't upgrade its fabled gadget....

Tags: Sony Corp., Apple iPod, Amazon.com Inc., Kindle-mania, Greenberg, Kindle, Digital Music, Digital Media, Wireless, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Kindle Economics

A few weeks ago I evaluated Amazon's Kindle. While I really liked the device, the big problem I had with it was that at its current price of $359.00 it was too expensive at this point for mass consumer adoption. I also had a number of...

Tags: Cost, Semester, Amazon.com Inc., Textbook, Amazon Kindle, E-books, Microsoft Excel, Personal Technology, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-11-16

Going paperless...Are we really saving money?

I've been continuing to kick around the idea of going paperless in K-12 education, particularly at the elementary level. It's becoming something of a personal crusade as I watch teachers crank out reams of worksheets for their students and find money to buy toner to support their habit. ...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Digital Content, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-14

Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100?

The Dynabook. Source: A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages, Alan Kay, XEROX PARC 1968. November 5th, 2008 was the 40th anniversary since computer scientist Alan Kay devised the "Dynabook", a theoretical computing device which was aimed toward higher education and...

Tags: Device, Student, Alan Kay, Dynabook, E-books, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Personal Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-11-09

Google: it’s time to get Real

In my previous post, I alluded to some of the issues that might prevent an average consumer -- "Joe Sixpack", John Q. Public, or Jane Doe from migrating to Linux on the desktop. One of them, without any doubt, is the lack of a way to...

Tags: Google Inc., Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Linux, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-11-05

Weekend Gadget Guidance: $50 off Amazon Kindle thru Nov. 1

Like Oprah Winfrey? Sure you do. Because if you do, it will save you $50 on your purchase of an Amazon Kindle. With the Big O's blessing -- "I'm telling you, it is absolutely my new favorite thing in the world," she said...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-10-24

News to know: Microsoft's outlook, emergency patch; Apple; Amazon's cloud; Yang speaks

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: Fake Steve Jobs heart attack story posted by teenager. Bloomberg: Jobs Said to Be Targeted by Teen in Heart-Attack Tale Jason O'Grady: SEC examining teen's motive in fake...

Tags: Layoff, Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Workforce Management, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Human Resources

Blog posts 2008-10-24

Kindroid: Two great tastes that would taste great together

Yesterday Google released the source code to their Linux-based Android operating system for mobile devices, which currently powers the T-Mobile G1 Dream smart phone. To date, no other consumer Android-based device has been released, and no new Android-based device has been pre-announced, but there is currently...

Tags: Software, Google Inc., Mobile, Network, Amazon.com Inc., Hardware, Amazon Kindle, Android, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-23