With the Poetry Foundation’s POETRY iPhone app, you can now take hundreds of poems by classic and contemporary poets with you wherever you go.
Author: Charles Wachira
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Microsoft revamps Hotmail, takes on Google and Yahoo
Hotmail, the world’s most widely used e-mail service, is getting a major overhaul from Microsoft in a bid to fend off competitors like Google’s Gmail.
Microsoft says the planned update to Windows Live Hotmail is designed to remove clutter and let users interact with other sites and applications while checking their mail.
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The Floppy is Dead: Time to Move Memories to the Cloud
Sony’s decision to end 3.5-inch disk production is just another signal that local storage media and platforms cannot be trusted with your precious data.
The history of data storage and backup is littered with the corpses of dead formats. Seven years ago I wrote about the beginning of the end of 3.5-inch floppy disks. At the time, it was still a popular portable storage medium, and I was derided as a heretic. Now, Sony has finally decided to stop making 3.5-inch floppy disks, which pretty much marks the end of the format.
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SMART Response interactive response systems
The SMART Response product line offers five unique models that can meet the needs of a variety of learning environments, such as K–12, early education, special needs, advanced math and science and 1:1 learning environments.
No matter which SMART Response you select, you can easily create quizzes and deliver lessons from within SMART Notebook collaborative learning software, providing a consistent experience regardless of your classroom environment. And it’s easy to use because all necessary features are one click away.
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Universities Ban iPads
Even though the Apple iPad has received much praise for its design and user interface, there are many who aren’t so enamored with the device. That includes a couple American universities that are having problems with the iPad on their networks.
The problem stems not from the iPad’s popularity but from the way it connects to wireless networks. Princeton University in New Jersey has blocked 20 percent of the iPads on campus because of “malfunctions that can affect the entire school’s computer system.”
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MightyMeeting Transforms Content Sharing with iPad Application
Cloud-Based Collaboration Platform Turns Tablet into a High-Impact Business Tool
MightyMeeting, an innovative mobile collaboration and social publishing company, today unveiled its new business application for the iPad by Apple at this year’s DEMO Spring 2010 conference, a semi-annual event that identifies new market-shaping technologies by giving companies just six minutes to demonstrate how their product will change the world. MightyMeeting’s suite of applications for mobile and hand-held devices, including the iPhone, iPod Touch, Android and now iPad, allows users to turn their devices into powerful business tools for high-resolution multimedia presentations and content sharing.
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Tablet Wars: The 12 Biggest iPad Competitors
Apple’s iPad caused a major stir in the tech community after its unveiling in February, but this year has been an exciting one for other companies entering tablet computer market.
The International CTIA Wireless convention in Las Vegas will highlight the most important pieces of the moblie tech world, not the least of which is the next wave of tablet computers.
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Opera Mini Browser, Coming to an iPhone Near You
Opera Software on Tuesday announced that it is submitting its Opera Mini Web browser to Apple for use on the iPhone.
The Norwegian company boasts that Opera is the most-used browser on mobile devices; it offers a version of the software for Windows Mobile phones, Google Android and the Nintendo DS game system.
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Apple’s iPhone 4.0 software to deliver multitasking support
Apple this summer will go a long way towards silencing critics and catering to one of the most prevalent demands of its iPhone user base, when it introduces a multitasking solution through the handset’s 4.0 software update that will finally allow several third party apps to run concurrently and in the background.
People with a proven track record in predicting Apple’s technological advances tell AppleInsider that the Cupertino-based company has developed a “full-on solution” to multitasking on the iPhone OS but offered no specifics on how the technology would optimize resource conservation and battery life — two of the most critical issues surrounding the matter, alongside security.
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Plastic Logic Delays Release of Que E-Reader
Plastic Logic, which was planning to ship its Que e-reader in April, has concluded that it needs more time to put the finishing touches on its creation. It says it’s postponing release until summer in order to “further fine-tune features and enhance the overall product experience.”
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Should You Pre-Order an iPad?
Owning a cutting-edge gadget has a certain cool factor, but early adopters rarely get a great deal. Some observers say Apple’s new iPad, available to pre-order Friday for an April 3 release, isn’t likely to be an exception — though there will probably be no shortage of shoppers wanting to go first.
“Most people are better off waiting for the technology to mature,” says Rob Enderle, the principal analyst at the Enderle Group, a San Jose, Calif.-based technology research firm. First versions of emerging technology are at premium prices and riddled with glitches. “Even the first iPhone owners were pretty unhappy.”
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Poll Everywhere creates stylish real-time experiences at events using mobile devices. Our service replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It’s the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere. It can help you to raise money by letting people pledge via text messaging. And because it works internationally with texting, web, or Twitter, its simplicity and flexibility are earning rave reviews.
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Clear Trend in Pocket Projectors
New technology follows a certain cycle. When a new category bursts out — the VCR, the MP3 player, the netbook — the first models are crude, expensive and underpowered. Several months later, me-too companies rush in, bringing the prices down and the refinement up. A few years later, the VCR, MP3 player or netbook reaches its final form, with only minor refinements in the years to come.
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So Far, E-Books Aren’t Making Sales Waves
The publishing industry’s alarm over the electronic book isn’t based on current use. Last year, less than 2 percent of all books sold were e-books, according to Bowker, which tracks the industry.
