Apple announced the iPhone 5 today and updates to the iPod line. Most of the announcements were lackluster at best, but the event laid the groundwork for the rumored iPad mini event in October, which could be even more disastrous than the iPhone 5 event today. The iPhone 5 is a nice upgrade, thinner and lighter, but at the same… Read more →
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Look out, there’s a new tablet in town and it’s HOT!
Announcing the Kindle Fire Amazon announced a few new Kindles today, the most important, in my mind, is the Kindle Fire. It is a 7″ tablet running a specialized version of Android. The shocker was the price, \$199. With todays announcement, every school district that is looking at mobile devices will need to take a pause and examine what the… Read more →
A Kindle, iPad, and iPod Touch walk into a classroom – #neotech2011
Here are the slides with notes: Handout from my presentation. For those following along with Twitter here are the results of the poll: [][] I really enjoyed the conference, and want to thank everyone that was involved at putting it on. It was very well run (although I didn’t win the MacBook Air door prize… :-). Read more →
A Kindle, iPad, and iPod Touch walk into a classroom – #oetc11
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The $99 mobile Internet Device
Nvidia Plans To Power \$99 Mobile Internet Devices Nvidia has announced that it plans to power \$99 mobile internet devices with its Tegra 600 series chips, perhaps as early as this summer. If they can get an Android version released at \$99 that is something that could be a game changer in education. Although I’m a big fan of the… Read more →