Twilio ([link] the cloud communications company, is reinventing telecom by merging the worlds of cloud computing, web services and telecommunications. New Mobile Commons Features Will Pull User Data Directly from Twilio Apps. This Functionality Will Let Organizations Run All Their Mobile Communications from One Web Dashboard. NEW YORK, September 21, 2011 : Mobile Commons today announced a new integration with cloud telephony platform Twilio. The integration will give marketers the power to pull user data straight from Twilio-based applications into their Mobile Commons accounts.  MORE >>

This annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion and exchange of information on the research, development, and applications on all topics related to multimedia, hypermedia and telecommunications/distance education. Having finished my draft thesis to submit for review, I am ready to dive into the call for papers and … get some abstracts in. Here are some of the calls that got into my mailbox. The conference theme will provide a focus for keynote addresses and invited events. Proposals for contributions are welcome from all fields of educational research. MORE >>

The number of mobile subscriptions in the world is expected to pass five billion this year, according to the International Telecommunication Union, an intergovernmental organization. They might also look at statistics about cellphone use, such as BigTime Wireless’s Ten Eye-Opening Cellphone Infographics and the International Telecommunications Union’s Cellphone Statistics from Around the World. Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Education World U.S. Politics Education Bay Area Chicago N.Y. What are the drawbacks? If so, how? If not, why not? Tell us here. MORE >>

This phenomenon is not just occurring in the US – According to a  report by International Telecommunications Union (ITU) mobile subscription growth was strong in developing countries (which have 3.8 Today Net Wits Think Tank confirmed what we’ve all be thinking: mobile is taking over the world. billion subscriptions), from 53 per cent of total mobile subscriptions at the end of 2005 to an estimated 73 per cent at the end of 2010. via NWTT ). Allow me to repeat: by next year there will be as many connected mobile phones as people in the world. MORE >>

 And we’re creating a dedicated support team with the knowledge of device, telecommunication issues and learning software features that this mesh of technologies will demand. Ray Henderson About Me Comments are on, sort of Recent Posts Mobile Learning: Our Goldilocks Problem Innovation & Refinement: Mobile Platform & Core Features Bb + Bing: A Search Experiment BbWorld: Don’t Just Attend, Lead Blackboard’s Open Standards Commitments: Progress Made The Patent News, and Question of Balances Mobile Computing, in Context.  Most are somewhere between the poles. Cheers! MORE >>