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Google and Amazon to Put More Books on Cellphones - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • In a move that could bolster the growing popularity of e-books, Google said Thursday that the 1.5 million public domain books it had scanned and made available free on PCs were now accessible on mobile devices like the iPhone and the T-Mobile G1.
    • John Evans
      John Evans on 06 Feb 09
       
      Do people over 30 really want to look at books on their cellphones?
    • John Evans
      John Evans on 06 Feb 09
       
      Porbably not!
  • “We are excited to make Kindle books available on a range of mobile phones,” said Drew Herdener, a spokesman for Amazon. “We are working on that now.”
  • Unlike the version of Google Book Search for PCs, which displays scanned images of book pages, the mobile version simply displays text, allowing users to download printed material more quickly over wireless networks.
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  • But just as camera phones have not replaced digital cameras, smartphones are not likely to replace dedicated e-book readers like the Kindle or the Reader from Sony, analysts said.
John Evans

Economic Scene - Study Rethinks Importance of Kindergarten Teachers - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...28leonhardt.html

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shared by John Evans on 05 Aug 10 - Cached
  • John Evans on 05 Aug 10
     
    "How much do your kindergarten teacher and classmates affect the rest of your life? "
John Evans

Google and Amazon to Put More Books on Cellphones - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 06 Feb 09 - Cached
  • In a move that could bolster the growing popularity of e-books, Google said Thursday that the 1.5 million public domain books it had scanned and made available free on PCs were now accessible on mobile devices like the iPhone and the T-Mobile G1.
    • John Evans
      John Evans on 06 Feb 09
       
      Will anyone over 30 really read aabook on their cellphone?
  • “We are excited to make Kindle books available on a range of mobile phones,” said Drew Herdener, a spokesman for Amazon. “We are working on that now.”
  • Unlike the version of Google Book Search for PCs, which displays scanned images of book pages, the mobile version simply displays text, allowing users to download printed material more quickly over wireless networks.
John Evans

Think Thank Thunk » Standards-Based Grading: The NYT Treatment - 4 views

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shared by John Evans on 01 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • While that’s poorly worded, what they’re saying seems to be true. If you have to grade, the grades need to mean something quite specific: learning.
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The Future of Reading - In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update - Series - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 16 Feb 09 - Cached
  • Ms. Rosalia, 54, is part of a growing cadre of 21st-century multimedia specialists who help guide students through the digital ocean of information that confronts them on a daily basis. These new librarians believe that literacy includes, but also exceeds, books.
  • “The days of just reshelving a book are over,” said Ms. Rosalia, who came to P.S. 225 nearly six years ago after graduating at the top of her class at the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. “Now it is the information age, and that technology has brought out a whole new generation of practices.”
John Evans

Cellphones Now Used More for Data Than for Calls - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...14talk.html

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shared by John Evans on 14 May 10 - Cached
  • The one thing she doesn’t use her cellphone for? Making calls.
  • For example, although almost 90 percent of households in the United States now have a cellphone, the growth in voice minutes used by consumers has stagnated, according to government and industry data.
  • Instead of talking on their cellphones, people are making use of all the extras that iPhones, BlackBerrys and other smartphones were also designed to do — browse the Web, listen to music, watch television, play games and send e-mail and text messages.
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  • The number of text messages sent per user increased by nearly 50 percent nationwide last year, according to the CTIA, the wireless industry association.
  • And for the first time in the United States, the amount of data in text, e-mail messages, streaming video, music and other services on mobile devices in 2009 surpassed the amount of voice data in cellphone calls, industry executives and analysts say.
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Ping - How Sharing Links Has Become Big Business - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by John Evans on 27 Sep 09 - No Cached
  • A personal recommendation, they say, can be just as powerful as a referral from Google
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Find Recently Lost Files on Your Mac - The New York Times - 2 views

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shared by John Evans on 02 Aug 18 - No Cached
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    "Can't locate that file you were working in a few days ago and can't remember what you called it? Here are some places to look."
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Overcome With Emoji - The New York Times - 2 views

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shared by John Evans on 04 May 18 - No Cached
  • John Evans on 04 May 18
     
    "With thousands of potential pictographs to add to text messages and other communications, some people may be looking for a way to narrow down the choices."
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Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach - The New York Times - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...intelligence-universities.html

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shared by John Evans on 16 Jan 23 - No Cached
  • John Evans on 16 Jan 23
     
    "With the rise of the popular new chatbot ChatGPT, colleges are restructuring some courses and taking preventive measures."
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