Mobile Developments

Mike Elgin discusses how the mobile operating systems are in flux .

-DD

Hewlett-Packard Develops A Phone That Doubles As A Computer

Agam Shah reports that HP has developed a phone that will also serve as a low-powered desktop with the addition of a keyboard and mouse. According to Shah, "The Elite X3 has 4GB of LPDDR4, 802.11ac Wi-Fi and a microSD slot for up to 2TB of storage."

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Wearable Use Expands

Matt Hamblen writes about the growth potential for the wearable peripheral market , which grew 171.6% over 201according to an IDC report.

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Android E-Reader Software

Lee Schlesinger reviews "Four Android E-Reader Apps ." With more and more student textbooks becoming available in an e-book format, it would be interesting to see if textbooks can be read on a phone. It would be a boon to studying anywhere, but would also offer another opportunity to cheat in a "closed-book" test environment.

-DD

Apps on Campus

Jacqueline Bengfort reports on the changes which mobile apps are making to campuses.

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Mobile Trends for 2014

Al Saccio reports on ten mobile technology trends that experts anticipate strengthening in 2014.

One surprising predication was that businesses would market more with SMS rather than apps. The predication was made by Steve French, a VP at OpenMarket, a SMS marketing firm.

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Mobile Devices Don't Help Office Ergonomics

Lamont Wood explains in detail how "Mobile Devices Don't Help Office Ergonomics."

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Is the PC Doomed?

Craig Buckler raises the question "Is the PC Doomed?"   The comments that follow the article give the perspectives of those involved in Web design and technology.

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Mobile Data Usage

Mobile devices are becoming a common tool for retrieving information from the Internet. JR Raphael has posted Smartphone Data Shake-Up: The End of 'Unlimited', which explores the 80% growth in average smartphone data usage over the past year. Raphael's report compares the data plans currently being offered by the major carriers in the US. A key factoid for those considering purchasing a smartphone plan is that in the 3rd quarter of 2011, a typical user consumed roughly 0.6 Gigabytes of data each month.

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Tools For Mobile Technologists

1. Explore http://sosius.com/, a British tool for online data storage and collaboration; http://box.net is a cloud storage company in the US.¹


2. Consider http://www.k7.net/--K7 Unified Messaging provides a personal phone number that serves as your voicemail box and fax number.¹


3. Try http://docs.google.com, a cloud tool that has proven invaluable when trying to convert Open Office to Word, and has sometimes been successful in opening corrupt Word documents that Word2007 could not open. I have also used Google sites http://sites.google.com for simple web pages. Erik Arnold notes that elements of Google Apps such as calendars and documents are easily merged into the created sites pages, something I have not explored.²


4. Look at http://basecamphq.com/--BaseCamp offers single-project management software for free--multiple project management requires a fee. Freshbooks www.freshbooks.com, a cloud-based billing and hours program, has a similar pricing structure.²

_{Today I discarded a heap of literature from the 2009 annual conference of the American Library Association. In the June 2009 issue of Searcher magazine, "Free Tools For Job Seekers" by Irene McDermott¹ and "Tools of the Trade" by Erik Arnold² provided these nifty web sites I just had to pass along.}
-D.D.