Rich White's Blog – August 2007 Archive (10)

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Obviously I feel a huge wireless broadband Internet enable network would be a GREAT thing for education and educational content providers in general... but what would the initial Google enable wireless communication device look like and cost?
(Via wired.com) -- http://tinyurl.com/ytupna

Rumor: Google Phone Will Be Linux-Powered, GPS-Loaded and Cheap

This sim is the first of many Greenbush Edusim Virtyal Classrooms (a tweek of the KAT Demo)





1) Download the sim -=here=- (296 megs)

2) Unzip the file

3) Start the sim (using the direction in the slidecast above)

4) Send feedback to rich.white@greenbush.org

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Google ready to invade telco turf, bid on 700MHz spectrum.



(via arstechnica.com)

Because the 700MHz has such desirable spectrum propagation characteristics, it's also much cheaper and easier to roll out a network with excellent coverage than it is to do so with higher-frequency technology. Making broadband access cheap and affordable means more people come online, and more people are able to make use of Internet services-exactly the sort of thing Google…

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Gave a presentation to educators today over Secondlife and Croquet :: They watched with morbid curiosity - this seems to take many out of their "comfort…

Wow... who would have though even 1 year ago Microsoft would even consider moving towards open source software? A few years ago I blogged fairly regularly about open source and how schools could embrace it http://www.greenbush.org/labs/opensrc -- here is the Microsoft opensource web site.… Continue

The best case to be made might for this belief might be what Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have

to say .. their products literally move every tech market… Continue

My $.02 -- this article is a long one, a decent read, so Ill re-cap



http://tinyurl.com/279mq4

"It feels like the early days of the Internet," says Steve Prentice, a vice-president at Gartner Research (IT ). Gartner estimates that by 2011, 80% of Internet users and major companies will have

avatars, or digital replicas of themselves, for online work and play.

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As posted on July 22nd here .. and now being reports by almost every tech news site online [WSJ Story | New Scientist] yesterday the FCC did in fact "vote to shake up the US wireless market on Tuesday by approving rules for a big… Continue