Osmo is a handy personal organizer, which includes calendar, tasks manager, address book and notes modules. It was designed to be a small, easy to use and good looking PIM tool to help to manage personal information. This port has a number of changes, including: printing is disabled current time is only updated on the [...]
Entries from March 30th, 2010
Findings from Digital Textbook Study Released
March 30th, 2010 · 1 Comment · digital textbooks
From the press release: GetYa Learn On, LLC – an educational software company that created the innovative application called “Statistics I” – today released empirical findings from a pilot study conducted during the Fall semester of 2009 at Abilene Christian University (ACU). Students in an introductory Statistics class were given the new iPhone application which [...]
C-motech Mangrove Hands On Video
March 30th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware reviews, video
If you’ve ever heard of C-motech, it was probably in relation to their 3g and 4G wireless modems. They make very good hardware which is rebranded under a bunch of different names. The Mangrove is their first UMD. It has a Snapdragon CPU, 7″ LCD, and runs Windows Mobile 6.5. I know that last bit [...]
Forget Paywalls – How About More Serendipity?
March 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
From gigaom: If ChatRoulette does nothing else, at least it seems to be getting some traditional media outlets to think about their content differently. For Chris Thorpe of The Guardian, the lightbulb went on during a lunchtime presentation by media analyst Clay Shirky at the newspaper’s offices in London. Thorpe, a former research scientist who [...]
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Wikipedia gets a Facelift, Tummytuck
March 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
From The Guardian: It is a man’s world. Actually, it is a very young man’s world, at least with Wikipedia. Three-quarters of updates to free online encyclopedia are made by men, who are on average 25 years old, a study has found. Yes, 300 million monthly users are getting their knowledge from twentysomethings. In order [...]
iPad guided tours now Online
March 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Apple, software news, video
Apple posted a series of guided tours for the iPad today; there’s one for iBooks. If you’ve seen the keynote then there’s no point in watching the video. I’ve seen it, and iBooks really doesn’t have much in the way of features. Apple
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BBC iPhone applications postponed
March 29th, 2010 · No Comments · software news
The BBC is reporting: The BBC Trust has asked the BBC to postpone its plans while it looks into the business case for the new services. The free applications were due to be released in April but have met with criticism from groups who say they will skew the market for news apps. Several newspapers [...]
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Publishers see iPad as path to sales increase
March 29th, 2010 · No Comments · software news
Financial Times has a pretty good summary of which magazine titles will be available for the iPad on Launch day. They also had this one little tidbit about themselves: The Financial Times app, planned for release in Europe and the US in late April, will be a free download, but will have the same subscription [...]
Tags:increase·ipad·path·publishers·sales
Bi Sheng 600TW – new E-reader/Smartphone Hybrid
March 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news
I found an interesting new e-reader out of China. They have a fascinating market there; it’s so crowded that developers are trying anything to make their device standout. Bi Sheng has released an e-reader that is basically a smartphone with a 6″ E-ink screen. I was wondering how long it would take for someone to [...]
Tags:600tw·bi·ereadersmartphone·hybrid·sheng
InfoTrends Announces Study on Reading & Digital Content in Europe
March 29th, 2010 · No Comments · surveys & polls
From the press release: InfoTrends has polled over 1,300 European consumers from five countries to get a better understanding of the dynamics at work, and has complemented those insights with additional data on reading and publishing trends to create a report entitled Consumer Media Preferences – The Future of Publishing Applications. … The report discusses [...]
Tags:announces·content·digital·europe·infotrends·reading·study
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