NetGenEd 2010

Researchers are offering an open source code that allows the learning platform Moodle to be accessed with the iPhone. This code enables people worldwide to follow continuing medical education modules wherever and whenever they want. Starting today the demo site is open to all. The open source code will be made available after the demo phase." id="metasummary

explans what open content is, and also explans how it is used in entertainment

Blaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos culled from the Web, Photosynth builds breathtaking dreamscapes and lets us navigate them.

Mobile communication helps poverty, and connects people.

Books are quickly entering the digital world thanks to electronic readers, which are becoming quite popular. Andy Ihnatko, technology columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, runs through the top options for those looking to dive, or inch,...

Description: Wireless networks, including Wi-Fi infrastructure and mesh networks, are becoming ubiquitous. It is critical to measure these networks to gain a better understanding of the traffic on the networks, the way they are used, and the response of the networks to different traffic patterns. It is also important to monitor operational wireless networks to improve security, capacity planning, and trouble shooting. Wireless networks pose unique challenges to measurement, however. In this talk I survey some of these challenges and describe some of the efforts underway to improve our ability to measure and monitor operational wireless network

Portable device chargers that are on the go, you just lay your phone or ipod on a pad and it charges them, cordlessly! More mobile.

Music Making

Baraniuk is working on building global relationships with authors, educators and leaners so they can "create, rip, mix and burn" learning materials to a global open-access repository. He is creating a knowledge ecosystem that will empower anyone to take content and make of it what they want; to be translated into any language or to imbed any data which is updated in real time.

SEATTLE (AP) — It’s an experiment that has made back-to-school a little easier on the back: Amazon.com gave more than 200 college students its Kindle electronic reading device this fall, loaded with digital versions of their textbooks.

Alex Golub reviews the advantages (and a few limitations, at least for now) of e-book readers.

TED Talks. A demonstration of Augmented Reality technology and how it is used today, for more than video games. Most people use this technology everyday.

Shows how a moblie platform can be used to launched augmented reality (AR) games.

This is just an interesting video that demonstates different Augmented Realities and ways it is used. Not educational on the technology behind it, but still good to see.