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• GeoCommons Maker!
  Shorten your map creation process from hours to minutes. Maker! gives you the power to make stunning interactive maps with your own data, GeoCommons public data or both.
• Fring Releases an Impressive VoIP and IM Client for iPhone - Mashable
  Fring has made available its first iPhone- and iPod touch-compatible application for the App Store. the free iPhone/iPod download gets you quite a lot in terms of choice. Far more than what its Apple-approved brethren have provided so far. It can connect you to Skype, MSN, ICQ, Google Talk, Twitter, Yahoo, and AOL?s AIM protocol, as well as conduct cellular, SIP, and Skype Out calls via Wi-Fi. (Cellular is of course only possible via an iPhone.)
• The Scannable World: Mobile Phones As Barcode Scanners - ReadWriteWeb
  One of the promises of the mobile web was the possibility of being able to integrate the internet with the real world. One of the ways to accomplish this task is through the use of barcodes. The idea is that you take a picture of the barcode with your camera phone and you're then delivered to a mobile web site. This could effectively make anything - whether a poster, an ad, or an object - a virtual part of the world wide web. Although this technology has been available for years, it's only now with the birth of the smartphone, or more precisely, the next-gen smartphone, that the potential for this type of integration may finally be realized.
• Nokia Reveals iPhone Competitor And Goes to Battle With iTunes (UPDATED) - ReadWriteWeb
  At an analyst and media event in London today, Nokia unveiled their company's first touch-screen phone, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, otherwise known as the Nokia "Tube," a device designed to compete directly with Apple's iPhone. Along with the phone, Nokia also detailed plans for their new "Comes With Music" service, a 12-month subscription service which offers unlimited downloads. There's no charge to download the individual tracks because the cost for the music is bundled into the cost of the phone.
• Here comes the "Windows Cloud"
  Amazon and Microsoft are about to be partners - and competitors. Last night, Amazon's Werner Vogels announced that later this fall developers and companies will be able to run Microsoft Windows Server and SQL Server on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which up to now has been limited to Linux or other Unix-based systems. Given the broad popularity of the Microsoft operating system, the move promises to considerably expand the usefulness of the EC2 utility-computing system.
• HP has a new WinMo 6.1 Touchscreen handset in the works - return of the Oak?
  Back in January, word got out of a new WinMo 6.1 touchscreen handset floating around the Hewlett Packard labs. Called the Oak and tentatively set for a September launch on Vodafone, it had a number pad on its face and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard packed away underneath.
• What is Android? - Android
  Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. This beta version of the Android SDK provides the tools and APIs necessary to begin developing applications on the Android platform using the Java programming language.
• Opening Up Education - The MIT Press
  Given the abundance of open education initiatives that aim to make educational assets freely available online, the time seems ripe to explore the potential of open education to transform the economics and ecology of education. Despite the diversity of tools and resources already available?from well-packaged course materials to simple games, for students, self-learners, faculty, and educational institutions?we have yet to take full advantage of shared knowledge about how these are being used, what local innovations are emerging, and how to learn from and build on the experiences of others. Opening Up Education argues that we must develop not only the technical capability but also the intellectual capacity for transforming tacit pedagogical knowledge into commonly usable and visible knowledge: by providing incentives for faculty to use (and contribute to) open education goods, and by looking beyond institutional boundaries to connect a variety of settings and open source entrepreneurs.
• Splicd · Get Straight To The Point
  Splicd allows you to isolate an interesting tidbit from a YouTube video and provides you with a link to share it with your family, friends, and colleagues.
• Opera: State of the Mobile Web, August 2008
  Welcome to our State of the Mobile Web report covering the month of August. This month we take a look at the breadth of the mobile Web. You might call this the Long Tail, a trend that in the case of our report shows the importance and strength of niche sites on the mobile Web.
• AFTRS : Games and Virtual Worlds: a new frontier of experience
  The Australian Film TV and Radio School (AFTRS) has created two ground breaking Graduate Diploma courses specialising in Game Design and Virtual Worlds. These are two of the only courses in the world to explore the link between games or virtual worlds and cinematic story.
• Rivers Run Red | Immersive Workspaces_
  A complete collaboration solution, the Immersive Workspaces? platform allows enterprises to communicate, collaborate, and co-design in a rich, 3D environment. What does it do? The Immersive Workspaces? platform tightly integrates the 3D immersive workspace with a set of web-based applications that together serves as the primary link to the immersive workspace - providing participants with a space to report, control, and track collaboration in the complementary immersive workspace.
• Intelligence in the Cloud
  There's a general misconception as to what, exactly, the "cloud" really is. I think most people imagine it as just a large cluster of computers, hooked up together as a large database or map/reduce storage system sitting behind a load balancer so that it can respond to requests as scalably as possible. That's definitely part of it, but there's much more to the cloud than that. The cloud can be intelligent.
• Interview: The cellphone anthropologist - opinion - 11 June 2008 - New Scientist
  Most of us take mobile phones for granted. Not so for Jan Chipchase, a design researcher for Nokia, who travels the globe exploring how people use their mobile devices, discovering how to make them better, how to reach the billions of people who don't own a phone - and learning a whole lot about people along the way. Jason Palmer caught up with him in Japan - by phone of course - and found that nothing about the mobile phone is as straightforward as it seems
• Cloud computing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  is a style of computing where IT-related capabilities are provided ?as a service?[1], allowing users to access technology-enabled services "in the cloud"[2] without knowledge of, expertise with, or control over the technology infrastructure that supports them[3]. According to the IEEE Computer Society it "is a paradigm in which information is permanently stored in servers on the Internet and cached temporarily on clients that include desktops, entertainment centers, table computers, notebooks, wall computers, handhelds, etc."[4]. Cloud computing is a general concept that incorporates software as a service, Web 2.0 and other recent, well-known technology trends, where the common theme is reliance on the Internet for satisfying the computing needs of the users. For example, Google Apps provides common business applications online that are accessed from a web browser, while the software and data is stored on the servers.