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K-12 textbooks in for a big change

K-12 textbooks in for a big changeWhat a radical conceptI hear that some state called "Massachusetts" has a State technology institute where the professors (who might also be "subject-matter experts") have been putting courseware on the Web using open-redistribution licensing.Be CarefulText books are better for learning from, because the source...

Tags: Text Book, textbook, K-12, K-12 textbook

Discussion threads 2009-03-05

OLPC is dead...What Kindlenomics taught us

OLPC is dead...What Kindlenomics taught usFor the sake of the childrenIt didn't cost me anything to put up a page to promote OLPC, buy one get one.Negroponte/OLPC has catalyzed the netbook industry. If OLPC didn't come into being, would we have seen the Intel Classmate and the outpouring of...

Tags: E-Ink, One Laptop Per Child project, Kindlenomics, textbook, text book

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

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

Why rich clients rule and always will

With all the hype on the Dumb Terminal v3 and the death of the rich client, I thought I had put this issue to rest with my Tales of the $100 PC. It was unfortunate that many of the talkbacks were from people who didn't even bother to read...

Tags: PC, dumb terminal

Blog posts 2005-10-18

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Advanced Web Ranking 6.9 (Mac)

Advanced Web Ranking is able to query over 1000 search engines and quickly find out if you're moving up or down in the rankings, or if your site is listed at all. It will track the progress of your rankings over time and display that information in an easy to...

Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, Web Site, Caphyon LLC, Advanced Web Ranking, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-11-05

News to know: AT&T, Verizon; T-Mobile; Microsoft CRM; Win7; datacenters; Sony-Ericcson

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.: Sam Diaz: AT&T sues Verizon Wireless, calls map ad "misleading" but doesn't dispute accuracy Matthew Miller: T-Mobile experiences...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Data Center, Dana Gardner, Dana Blankenhorn, Verizon Communications Inc., Andrew Nusca, T-Mobile, AT&T Corp., Microsoft Corp., Matthew Miller, Microsoft CRM, Sam Diaz, CRM, Data Centers, Microsoft Windows 7, Smart Phones, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management

Blog posts 2009-11-04

Sony Ericsson Equinox TM717 - carbon black (T-Mobile)

Photo gallery:Sony Ericsson Equinox TM717The Sony Ericsson Equinox is the first phone from the manufacturer to land at T-Mobile since the TM506. In many ways the Equinox is a fitting successor; like the TM506 it has a thin flip phone design and it sports a similar feature set that includes...

Tags: display, Equinox, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, phone, T-Mobile

Product reviews 2009-11-03

Snabiz for iPhone 1.0.1 (Mobile)

Snabiz for iPhone helps you to import business cards in your address book. Simply take a picture, Snabiz recognizes the text and automatically tags all known fields. You are presented with a list of all scanned text fields so you can tag everything that you want to import. Then you...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, Address Book, Netwalk, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-03

Booxter 2.1.3 (Mac)

Booxter is an application to help you manage your collections of books, music, movies, and comic books. Booxter gathers book information from various sources on the internet to allow you to view, edit, sort, categorize, export, and print books of interest to you. With Booxter you can: add items one...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Deep Prose Software, Booxter, Item Information, Scanners, Digital Music, Digital Media, Hardware, Peripherals, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-11-03

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

Audio Library for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

Audio Library for iPhone is a great tool to improve English reading, listening, and speaking skills. It is an advanced multimedia book reader with text-audio synchronization and bedtime story controller. It features supports horizontal text reader, change text color and font size, options to download a chapter or an entire...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Multimedia, Mobile, Audio Book

Software downloads 2009-11-02

Birthday Calendar Lite for Facebook for iPhone 1.3 (Mobile)

With Birthday Calendar Lite for Facebook for iPhone view all your Facebook and non-Facebook friends birthdays in a beautifully laid out list format. You can sort by upcoming birthdays, last name or first name. Milestone birthdays and soon upcoming birthdays are clearly highlighted. You can select which friends to receive...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, Mobile, Birthday, BigDates Solutions, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-02

Birthday Calendar for Facebook for iPhone 1.3 (Mobile)

With Birthday Calendar for Facebook for iPhone view all your Facebook and non-Facebook friends birthdays in a beautifully laid out list format. You can sort by upcoming birthdays, last name or first name. Milestone birthdays and soon upcoming birthdays are clearly highlighted. You can select which friends to receive day...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, Mobile, Birthday, BigDates Solutions, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-02

Business Card Reader for iPhone 1.0 (Mobile)

Business Card Reader for iPhone imports contact information right from business card to your iPhone contacts. Business Card Reader for iPhone takes photo then reads it using text recognition technology made by ABBYY and enters complete and accurate contact info into appropriate fields of the iPhone address book. There is...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Card Reader, Mobile, SHAPE Services, Business Card, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-11-02

TNEF's Enough 2.2 (Mac)

TNEF's Enough allows Macs to read and extract files from Microsoft TNEF stream files. The files are usually received by SMTP based e-mail programs from Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft Outlook users. The SMTP based e-mail program will usually receive either a MIME attachment named "winmail.dat" or a MIME attachment with...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, MAPI, Microsoft Corp., Josh Jacob, TNEF, Microsoft Outlook, E-mail, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Online Communications, Enterprise Software

Software downloads 2009-10-31

myNotes 1.5.8 (Mac)

myNotes is a note-taking program with groundbreaking ease of use that lets you create and organize notes and clippings, as well as print with the help of beautiful customizable themes. Its streamlined interface lets you easily organize your notes, ideas or your diary. Features include real-time word count, auto-naming...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Note, Mishimo, myNotes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-10-31

Samsung Caliber (U.S. Cellular)

We've seen plenty of Samsung touch-screen handsets come our way, but not many of them make it to U.S. Cellular, a regional carrier based in Chicago. The only one so far has been the Samsung Delve, which made it to the carrier's lineup late last year. Now another one has...

Tags: Keyboards, Monitors & displays, U.S. Cellular, Samsung Caliber, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Product reviews 2009-10-29

E-book reader news and releases round-up

Why e-books ?Using a "normal" paperback book I have indefinite battery life and extreme portability. I have no need to carry a hundred books at one time and can take along a few books for an extended read time just about anywhere and in any travel bag. I...

Tags: E-books, Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, e-reader, Apple Inc., E-book reader new, e-book Reader, e-book

Discussion threads 2009-10-28

Nokia 2705 Shade - black (Verizon Wireless)

Photo gallery:Nokia ShadeMost of Nokia's recent cell phones for the U.S. market haven't been too exciting. Sure, the company gave us the odd Nokia Twist last month, but we're more likely to see functional handsets like AT&T's Nokia Mural 6750. Verizon's new Nokia Shade 2705 certainly is part of that...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Verizon Wireless, Nokia Corp., phone

Product reviews 2009-10-27

Jedit X 2.17 (Mac)

The Cocoa version of the popular text editor in Japan. Supports Unicode, Text Encoding Sniffer, Customizable Syntax Coloring, Fully Customizable Key Bindings, Split Editing Window, Line Numbers Display, Book Marking, Object Embedding (image, Quicktime Movie and files), Sorting etc. Rev.2 is Optimized for Mac OS X Leopard, supports tabbed window,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Rev.2, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-27