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Fiber Optic Cables connected the world online by making the internet available to everyone in the world with a computer.

Twitter is a great Web 2.0 tool. It is used by a lot of people. They use it to connect with people. It is similar to Skype.

Myrl is a social connection between virtual worlds

This site talks about college students wanting/needing wireles connectivity.

"Mobile connectivity provides an opportunity to offer new ways of teaching and learning that ultimately will improve performance and results whilst at the same time open up new markets formobile operators across the world. Mobile will increase access to up-to-date materials, will enable collaboration and strengthen learner engagement. In response to this opportunity, the GSMA's Mobile Education initiative aims to accelerate the adoption of Mobile Education solutions; in particular, the use of mobile-enabled portable devices ,such as e-Readers and tablets in mainstream education settings.This global initiative seeks to understand and address the landscape, barriers and opportunities in this emerging market. The GSMA has recently published its first Mobile Education Landscape Report describing the emerging global Mobile Education and related eTextbook Publishing markets. While education systems are country or even local authority specific, we believe that globally coordinated activity drawing on common experience sharing and best practices will be vital to understand and act upon the Mobile Education opportunity. To help Mobile Operators become familiar with this new space we have produced aseries of Mobile Education reports which we hope you will find useful. To get involved, whichever part of the ecosystem you belong to, please contact mobileeducation@gsm.org to learn how."

virtual organization is just like the flat classroom project its a lot of people who know nothing about anybody and connect with people from all over world

This is an image that shows that mobile connectivity is useful during conferences. People get to search what others are saying to get a more basic, general idea. While others are talking about topics people can go onto their mobile device and see how accurate it is and have stuff to say to back it up

As of October 20,2011 Facebook says: they have more than 800 million active users more than 50% of the active users have at least 130 friends more than 900 million interact with pages,groups,events,and community pages; average users is connected to 80 community pages,groups,and events more than 250million photos are uploaded daily they have more than70 languages and over 300,000 use translating applications 75% or more people using Facebook is out of the United States more than 500 million people use an app on Facebook or experience Facebook Platform on other websites More than 7 million apps and websites are integrated with Facebook more than 350 million users have and use Facebook on a cell phone or mobile device

a page about Skype '3rd Steroid' making phone calls over the internet

"Mobile technology is exactly what the name implies - technology that is portable. Examples of mobile IT devices include: laptop and netbook computers palmtop computers or personal digital assistants mobile phones and 'smart phones' global positioning system (GPS) devices wireless debit/credit card payment terminals Mobile devices can be enabled to use a variety of communications technologies such as: wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) - a type of wireless local area network technology Bluetooth - connects mobile devices wirelessly 'third generation' (3G), global system for mobile communications (GSM) and general packet radio service (GPRS) data services - data networking services for mobile phones dial-up services - data networking services using modems and telephone lines virtual private networks - secure access to a private network It is therefore possible to network the mobile device to a home office or the internet while travelling. Benefits Mobile computing can improve the service you offer your customers. For example, when meeting with customers you could access your customer relationship management system - over the internet - allowing you to update customer details whilst away from the office. Alternatively, you can enable customers to pay for services or goods without having to go to the till. For example, by using a wireless payment terminal diners can pay for their meal without leaving their table. More powerful solutions can link you directly into the office network while working off site, for instance to access your database or accounting systems. For example, you could: set up a new customer's account check prices and stock availability place an order online This leads to great flexibility in working - for example, enabling home working, or working while travelling. Increasingly, networking 'hot spots' are being provided in public areas that allow connection back to the office network or the internet.

gives examples of what types of products are mobile and the networks that they work on.

"Going wireless generally requires connecting an internet "access point""

This is the team wiki

Here is the internet started and how the world got connected from then till now.

Withings is a company that has wi-fi enabled devices. These devices include apps and all kinds of smart-enabled tools (including ifttt.com integration.) Scales can automatically log your weight to evernote or a google doc to track, a blood pressure monitor and perhaps my favorite, a baby monitor that lets you dial in on junior using your iphone or ipad. (I needed that when my children were younger.) I am thinking about getting the baby monitor to use to monitor my classroom. So many different applications.

Google branches out in many ways to help teachers and students in general.