Mobile Web Search: Google mobile is an example – provides mobile web search from a connected mobile phone or PDA SMS-based information service: these require a bit of preparation. For example: a student sends an SMS with the word “impasto” to 131234 (example only). They then receive a dictionary definition of the term back via SMS. IM types include SMS/MMS between mobile phones, MSN Messenger (installed in Pocket PCs), and other IM products can be installed which operate over wireless Internet (802.11a/b/g). the internet). in a learning relationship). MORE >>

Mobile Commons Partners with the Voting Information Project, New Organizing Institute and Voto Latino to Launch New Polling Place Locator, Powered by Google Data, to Provide Poll Locations in English and Spanish. “SMS and mobile applications are key parts of our GOTV strategy to mobilize the tens of thousands of young Latinos that are registered and voting for the first time in 2012.” Please note that the Google data is still being updated and voters should be sure to check back before Election Day to confirm location). “In 2008, an estimated 1.9 Try it! MORE >>

Touch screen or not : again this is very personal, some like touch screens, others do not (with touch screen you cannot write a quick sms blindly or from the pocket of your pants for instance, but on the other hand it offers immediate contact with what you see). Smartphone marketplaces: Blackberry: [link] Apple iPhone: [link] Google Play (for Android phones): https://play.google.com/store Windows mobile: [link] If you plan some mLearning, you might also want to take a look at which applications might enhance learning for your target learner audience. Or is it of interest to you? MORE >>

Add this to Google Reader. Even the simplest mobile devices such as low-end mobile phones (which are not necessarily Internet enabled) allow access to learning content via SMS, as the BBC Janala project in Bangladesh shows. But in general, there is a misconception that mobile learning means SMS. Or rather, use of SMS is one small brush stroke in the overall mobile learning picture. UK colleague’s son recently met an Austrian girl last summer, and continues the relationship mainly via SMS. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Tweet This! The big picture. MORE >>

That thought was eerily prophetic… for last week, Google annouced that they had bought photo-recognition software company Neven Vision , a company that produces a product called i-SCOUT, which they describe as a “visual Google&# : The image recognition algorithms can recognize anything from an ipod to a picture of the Mona Lisa to the flower in the above picture. Report: Sydney AUC iPhone SDK Workshop Video Recording and Streaming on ALL iPhones Google Goggles will rock m-learning. pre-packaged content for PDAs) will be photo-recognition. Ubiquette. MORE >>