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"I've often said, "The iPad is only good for two things: Reading and Scrabble. Well, I've now come to some longer-term conclusions about the iPad. In truth, reading covers a lot of stuff, and the iPad is great at those reading and viewing tasks. The fact that it's instant-on and you can flip the screen around to show a colleague a web page, a chart, or a document just like you would a piece of paper gives the iPad a much more natural feel and a huge advantage over a traditional laptop for those business professionals who spend a lot of time in meetings."

Interesting review. Of course we must not discount the power of just giving a student "instant on" access to web based resources, accessable and portable reading. The new dimension of using a multitouch interface offers some interesting social collaboration angles for schools.

I want one of these! They are so cool!

Open source programming interactive Touch GUI framework for rapid development of apps for schools, museums, and nonprofits.

The popular Flip video camera is no more, with Cisco announcing Tuesday it "will exit aspects of its consumer businesses," which includes shutting down the Flip.

Interesting to consider that the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad2 with built in cameras might have also nudged the Flipvideo camera aside.

At this stage it appears the ipad is still the only game in town ...

Interesting -  All your favorite android apps now on Windows PC.

This fascinating presentation by Benedict Evans shares some staggering charts, interesting factoids, and all manner of statistics about mobile learning, mobile browsing, and mobile everything.