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Demi A

The State of the Electronic Book on Vimeo - 0 views

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ebooks

shared by Demi A on 22 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Devices such as the Amazon Kindle, the Sony Reader, the Stanza iPhone application, and many others are changing how people access books and (more importantly) how authors reach readers. This video is a reprise of my presentation from BookCamp Vancouver 2009 - it provides an overview of the current state of the e-book market, an introduction to the technology, and a summary of the session's discussion on the ramifications of this disruptive development for publishers, authors, and readers alike.
  • Demi A on 22 Mar 10
     
    An introduction to ebooks
Meghan McKee

Mobile Computing - 4 views

www.bentley.edu/...mobile_computing.cfm

mobile computing

shared by Meghan McKee on 24 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Krysta M on 24 Mar 10
     
    AtBentley, there's network access across campus and in the residence halls; utilizing wireless when on the go, and plugging in when you are in need of the high speed wired access. (Mobile computing benefiting education, colleges even handout technology for student use)
Alix R

See the world with new eyes - 0 views

www.smh.com.au/...th-new-eyes-20100315-q9wt.html

augmentedreality hz10 Flat Classroom Project

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  • Steve Madsen on 17 Mar 10
     
    For years we have navigated our way through unfamiliar locations by looking at guidebooks and matching their contents to what we see around us. What if we could look at both at once? This is the promise of augmented reality (AR), which uses computers and mobile phones to overlay additional information and images on what is visible to the naked eye.
Vicki Davis

How Privacy Vanishes Online, a Bit at a Time - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...17privacy.html

privacy analytics education

shared by Vicki Davis on 17 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 17 Mar 10
     
    Data that is innocuous or is it? Excellent article from the New York Times on Privacy. "In a class project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that received some attention last year, Carter Jernigan and Behram Mistree analyzed more than 4,000 Facebook profiles of students, including links to friends who said they were gay. The pair was able to predict, with 78 percent accuracy, whether a profile belonged to a gay male. So far, this type of powerful data mining, which relies on sophisticated statistical correlations, is mostly in the realm of university researchers, not identity thieves and marketers. But the F.T.C. is worried that rules to protect privacy have not kept up with technology. The agency is convening on Wednesday the third of three workshops on the issue. "
  • Vicki Davis on 17 Mar 10
     
    Privacy concerns are tremendous with any kind of data and as you predict what is happening with the future, you should look at this.
Lisette Casey

Textbooks Are Finished - 2 views

www.districtadministration.com/viewarticle.aspx

open source electronic books mobile computing

shared by Lisette Casey on 20 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Lisette Casey on 20 Mar 10
     
    Includes additional articles by Cathleen Norris and Elliot Soloway that may be relevant to other teams.
krysten j

2010 Horizon Report » Two to Three Years: Electronic Books - 0 views

wp.nmc.org/...electronic-books

ebook ebooks

shared by krysten j on 31 Mar 10 - Cached
  • A survey of current projects shows that electronic books are being explored in virtually every discipline
  • Extracurricular Reading.
  • library at Fairleigh Dickinson University offers a selection of electronic readers that students may check out, including Amazon Kindles, Sony Readers, and iPod Touches.
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  • Foreign Language.
  • use an online interactive textbook with a print-on-demand component
  • The online portion includes audio clips of each part of the text and video clips to explore
  • The Humanities E-Book (HEB), offered to institutions on a subscription basis
  • Humanities.
  • is a digital collection of 2,200 humanities texts. Students at subscribing institutions may browse and read the collection online or order printed copies on demand.
  • Physics.
  • produced an electronic book to visually demonstrate the principles of electricity and magnetism
  • krysten j on 31 Mar 10
     
    2010 Horizon Report: The Web Version Two to Three Years: Electronic Books
virginia vereen

Cloud-based Mobile Apps Gain Popularity | Bharat Chronicle - 0 views

www.bharatchronicle.com/bile-apps-gain-popularity-5995

mobile

shared by virginia vereen on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Mobile cloud applications move the computing power and data storage away from mobile phones and into the cloud, bringing apps and mobile computing not just to smartphone users but a wide spectrum of mobile subscribers.
  • “Mobile Cloud Computing.” Cloud technologies will also make mobile apps more sophisticated, allowing them to be offered to a broader audience of mobile subscribers
  • The research firm further forecasts that the number of mobile cloud computing subscribers worldwide will rise from 42.8 million in 2008, (approximately 1.1 percent of all mobile subscribers) to more than 998 million in 2014 (nearly 19 percent).
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  • cloud providers are increasingly opening up their application programming interfaces, making it easier for developers.
  • Nolan R on 30 Mar 10
     
    This bookmark is describing cloud computing and how it is becoming popular.
  • virginia vereen on 30 Mar 10
     
    This article is about mobile cloud computing and how it can change mobile computing. Mobile cloud computing moves the computing power and data storage away from cell phones and into the "cloud", taking apps and mobile computing not just to your smart phone, but a wide range of mobile subscribers.
Tyler R

Meet Tagwhat, Another Augmented Reality Network For iPhone And Android Users - 0 views

techcrunch.com/tagwhat

augmentedreality

shared by Tyler R on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Mobile augmented reality networks still have to prove they can live up to the hype,
  • but that isn’t stopping companies from jumping on the bandwagon at increasing rates.
  • Tagwhat is doing just that by launching in private beta
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  • for iPhone and Android users.
  • Powered by Iryss, which also offers customized mobile and AR software integration solutions for enterprises
  • Tyler R on 30 Mar 10
     
    Tagwhat is a consumer-facing product that allows people to tag real-world locations and attach information, reviews, links, photos, videos, notes and so on to those particular spots, whether tied to their current location or not.
Miller S.

Open Content Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Open_Content_Alliance

opencontent

shared by Miller S. on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • The Open Content Alliance (OCA) is a consortium of organizations contributing to a permanent, publicly accessible archive of digitized texts. Its creation was announced in October 2005 by Yahoo!, the Internet Archive, the University of California, the University of Toronto and others [1]. Scanning for the Open Content Alliance is administered by the Internet Archive, which also provides permanent storage and access through its website.
  • OCA's approach to seeking permission from copyright holders differs significantly from that of Google Book Search. OCA digitizes copyrighted works only after asking and receiving permission from the copyright holder ("opt-in"). By contrast, Google Book Search digitizes copyrighted works unless explicitly told not to do so ("opt-out"), and contends that digitizing for the purposes of indexing is fair use.
  • The OCA is, in part, a response to Google Book Search, which was announced in October 2004.
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  • Microsoft had a special relationship with the Open Content Alliance until May 2008. Microsoft joined the Open Content Alliance in October 2005 as part of its Live Book Search project [2]. However, in May 2008 Microsoft announced it would be ending the Live Book Search project and no longer funding the scanning of books through the Internet Archive.[3] Microsoft removed any contractual restrictions on the content they had scanned and they relinquished the scanning equipment to their digitization partners and libraries to continue digitization programs.[3] Between about 2006 and 2008 Microsoft sponsored the scanning of over 750,000 books, 300,000 of which are now part of the Internet Archive's on-line collections.
  • Miller S. on 30 Mar 10
     
    This wikipedia page talks about the OCA(Open Content Alliance). This website tells how this alliance is contributing to the growth of Open Content and how it is helping the idea of Open Content to become more widely used throughout the world.
Tanner B

Visual Business Intelligence - Microsoft Excel's Idea of Visual Data Analysis - 0 views

www.perceptualedge.com/blog

visual data analysis

shared by Tanner B on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • No software product is used more than Microsoft Excel for the analysis and presentation of quantitative data.
  • Nevertheless, it is fair to say that you can use Excel to present data effectively, but within severe limits, and only if you’re willing to work around its problems.
  • To say it can be used for visual data analysis, however, is a stretch that exceeds its reach. To date, Excel is at best an infant in the world of visual data analysis, barely able to roll over.
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  • Those of you who are familiar with visual data analysis and what good software does to support it will find Microsoft’s notion of visual data analysis entertaining. I invite you to watch Microsoft’s demo and let me know what you think of it.
Hope B.

Pointing device gesture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Pointing_device_gesture

gesturebased

shared by Hope B. on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • In computing, a pointing device gesture is a way of combining pointing device movements and clicks which the software recognizes as a specific command. Pointing device gestures can provide quick access to common functions of a program.
    • Hope B.
      Hope B. on 30 Mar 10
       
      Gesture based computing is referred to as pointing device gesturing. In this sentence, numerous ways are provided to show the functions of this technology.
  • The first pointing device gesture, the "drag," was introduced by Apple to replace a dedicated "move" button on mice shipped with its Macintosh and Lisa computers.
  • Dragging involves holding down a pointing device button while moving the pointing device; the software interprets this as an action distinct from separate clicking and moving behaviors.
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  • Unlike most pointing device gestures, it does not involve the tracing of any particular shape. Although the "drag" behavior has been adopted in a huge variety of software packages, few other gestures have been as successful.
  • A major drawback of current gesture interaction solutions is the lack of support for two necessary user interface design principles, feedback and visibility.
Hope B.

Gesture recognition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

en.wikipedia.org/...Gesture_recognition

gesturebased

shared by Hope B. on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Gesture recognition is a topic in computer science and language technology with the goal of interpreting human gestures via mathematical algorithms. Gestures can originate from any bodily motion or state but commonly originate from the face or hand.
    • Hope B.
      Hope B. on 30 Mar 10
       
      Gesture based computing can also be referred to as gesture recognition. This sentence briefly describes the defintion of this feature.
  • Gesture recognition can be seen as a way for computers to begin to understand human body language, thus building a richer bridge between machines and humans than primitive text user interfaces or even GUIs (graphical user interfaces), which still limit the majority of input to keyboard and mouse.
    • Hope B.
      Hope B. on 30 Mar 10
       
      This sentence provides numerous ways in which gesture based computing can be beneficial to the environment.
  • Gesture recognition enables humans to interface with the machine (HMI) and interact naturally without any mechanical devices. Using the concept of gesture recognition, it is possible to point a finger at the computer screen so that the cursor will move accordingly. This could potentially make conventional input devices such as mouse, keyboards and even touch-screens redundant. Gesture recognition can be conducted with techniques from computer vision and image processing.
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  • Gesture recognition is useful for processing information from humans which is not conveyed through speech or type. As well, there are various types of gestures which can be identified by computers.
    • Hope B.
      Hope B. on 30 Mar 10
       
      This paragraph describes a few different options about how gesture based computing can be observed and used.
  • Sign language recognition.
  • For socially assistive robotics.
  • Directional indication through pointing.
  • Control through facial gestures
  • Alternative computer interfaces.
  • Immersive game technology.
  • Virtual controllers.
  • Affective computing
  • Remote control.
Sydnee S

Detecting Flaws and Intruders with Visual Data Analysis - 0 views

www.computer.org/...MCG.2004.26

shared by Sydnee S on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Most of the analysis methods in use today are highly automated due to the enormous size of the collected data.
    • Sydnee S
      Sydnee S on 30 Mar 10
       
      The methods for data analysis must change because of the large amounts of data that have been collected over the years.
  • presents interactive visualization as an alternative and effective data exploration method for understanding the complex behaviors of computer network systems.
Ethan L

Samsung Unveils Android-powered Galaxy S Smartphone - 0 views

www.digitaltrends.com/...id-powered-galaxy-s-smartphone

Simple Augmented Reality

shared by Ethan L on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Ethan L on 30 Mar 10
     
    This aricle shows how new phones are incorporating augmented reality into there phones
Nolan R

NuMobile (NUBL) Announces Wireless Broadband Network Rollout in East Africa Next Month - 0 views

money.cnn.com/...0601349.htm

mobile

shared by Nolan R on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • intended to provide a wireless metering capability to local utility companies.
  • After successful completion of the testing phase, the wireless broadband project is expected to expand throughout Nairobi, followed by expansion to additional cities and countries throughout East Africa.
  • Through a roll-up strategy, NuMobile plans to acquire and develop mobile computing solutions for a variety of applications, including mobile banking, for the global marketplace. The demand for mobile security and software applications is being driven in large part by the growing number of mobile phone sales into emerging economies that currently do not have substantial access to the Internet via desktop computing.
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  • NuMobile, Inc. (OTCBB: NUBL) is scheduled to begin work on a project constructing a wireless broadband network in Nairobi, Kenya next month
  • NuMobile will take part in the implementation of the wireless broadband network, intended to provide a wireless metering capability to local utility companies.
  • After successful completion of the testing phase, the wireless broadband project is expected to expand throughout Nairobi, followed by expansion to additional cities and countries throughout East Africa.
  • virginia vereen on 30 Mar 10
     
    NuMobile is a system that is being set up in Nairobi, Kenya. Its intentions are to run a wireless broadband network so local businesses can become more successful. If this project runs correctly, there is talk to set up one through out East Africa. NuMobile also plans to develop mobile computing because of the high number of people with cell phones, and also the difficulty of reaching rural areas with the broadband.
  • Nolan R on 30 Mar 10
     
    This is an article describing the wireless broadband network that's being constructed in Kenya.
krysten j

Enhanced e-book apps anticipate a new generation of e-readers - Books, Arts & Entertain... - 0 views

www.independent.co.uk/...ation-of-ereaders-1929810.html

ebook ebooks

shared by krysten j on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • With the release of the iPad just weeks away, enhanced e-book apps are becoming a hot trend in publishing, with many major publishers announcing plans for enhanced titles.
  • "An eBook by itself is not enthralling; what's on it is. And we have the technology that allows us to do all of this. So why not use it?"
    • krysten j
      krysten j on 30 Mar 10
       
      quote by David Baldacci
  • krysten j on 30 Mar 10
     
    Enhanced e-book apps anticipate a new generation of e-readers Sunday, 28 March, 2010
Diane A

How will the iPad will change the way you do buissness. - 1 views

www.entrepreneur.com/...article205580.html

ebook

shared by Diane A on 05 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Diane A on 05 Apr 10
     
    People who work in or do business, iPad will make a nice change! And help in so many ways.Usually iPad are for those who spend most of the time in computers.However iPad is for anyone.
Isaiah Toews

e-books - 0 views

portableebookreader.com

ebooks technology

shared by Isaiah Toews on 05 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Isaiah Toews on 05 Apr 10
     
    this website has some information about what e-books are
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