NetGenEd 2011

Augmented Reality is important in education for a number of reasons: The real world can be annotated. Location information can be available in places or on objects Users can interact with virtual and physical objects at the same time. User can see virtual model from all angles. User can experiment/practice with virtual objects in a realistic but no consequence situation. (For example, practice surgery, firefighting) Engagement- rich information engages user -appeals to different learning styles

What is Layar? The Layar Reality Browser shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of the real world as seen through the camera of your mobile phone. This technology is called Augmented Reality. We augment the real world as seen through your mobile phone, based on your location.

Introduction to 3G Technology - Not so long back age mobile phones were introduced. They were considered quite useful as they allowed people o make and receives calls from anywhere in the world. But that is a thing of the past with the rapid advancement of the technology; the mobile phones have advanced at a great rate. They now offer stunning features which no one could have imagined 15 years back when mobiles were launched.

• Lighting fast internet speed: With the use of 3G technology the telecom industry can now provide supper fast internet speed to its uses. People can access internet at a speed of 3.2 mbps via their mobile phone

 Video calling: This is the most amazing feature provided by the 3G technology. Using 2G spectrums it was not possible to make video calls via mobile phones. But via using 3G enabled mobile phones people can make video calls, which adds more interactivity in the proces

acrossair is a new kind of company - a hybrid collective combining rockstar application and game developers with a corporate infrastructure to cover all those mundane things like marketing, sales and finance. acrossair is working with companies to take advantage of the Apple iPhone platform for everything from fun games to enterprise applications. Our first application (delivering TV listings for TVGuide.co.uk) reached No.1 in the UK. Currently available for download on iTunes is a range of acrossair apps including Nearest Wiki, New York Nearest Subway, Nearest Places, London Nearest Tube and many more. acrossair have also developed an iPhone advertising platform which enables publishers to commoditise their applications.

Widgets are installable Web applications that use technologies such as JavaScript and HTML. Many handsets support widgets running on their home screens, where they are easily visible and accessible. Despite the lack of standards, widgets provide a convenient way to deliver simple, connected applications, especially those involving real-time data updates (such as weather forecasts, e-mail notifications, marketing, blogs and information feeds). Because widgets exploit well-understood tools and technologies, they have lower entry barriers than complex native applications, and thus can be a good first step to assess the demand for an application on a specific platform before undertaking expensive native development.

App stores will be the primary (and, in some cases, the only) way to distribute applications to smartphones and other mobile devices. App stores also provide a range of business support functions, such as payment processing, that assist smaller organizations. Gartner believes that app stores will play many roles in an organization's B2C and B2E strategies. They will be a distribution channel for mobile applications and a commercial channel to sell applications and content (especially in international markets), and they will provide new options for application sourcing. Many applications will exploit ecosystem cloud services.

International Mobile Telecommunications–2000 (IMT-2000) standards are a generation of specifications for data transmission set by the Radio section of the International Telecommunication Union.[1] The IMT-2000 provided these standards for the development of today's 3rd Generation radio telecommunication networks, attempting to improve upon the capability of earlier 1G and 2G wireless networks, which did not have standardised requirements

The IMT-2000 standards were used to draw up several network standards to improve upon existing 2G standards,

3G networks are expected to provide wireless telecommunications to mobile devices over a wide area, such as mobile phones.

computer interfaces based on 3-D motion capture

3Gear's mission is to develop application specific gestural interfaces that are competitive with the

mouse and keyboard in usability.

A mobile phone (also called mobile, cellular telephone, or cell phone) is an electronic device used to make mobile telephone calls across a wide geographic area. Mobile phones are different from cordless telephones, which only offer telephone service within a limited range of a fixed land line, for example within a home or an office

In addition to being a telephone, modern mobile phones also support many additional services, and accessories, such as SMS (or text) messages, e-mail, Internet access, gaming, Bluetooth and infrared short range wireless communication, camera, MMS messaging, MP3 player, radio and GPS. Low-end mobile phones are often referred to as feature phones, whereas high-end mobile phones that offer more advanced computing ability are referred to as smartphones.