e-Clippings 11.20.2003 *Not Latin for Fair and Balanced
"Legero. Cogito. Scribero."

"The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you
music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you
love." Walt Whitman
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Re the frequency of recent e-Clippings…let's just say
I've been busy…
http://blogoehlert.typepad.com/eclippings/2003/11/research_slides.html

New home for my e-Learning Research Blog:
http://blogoehlert.typepad.com/future_elearning_blog/

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NEWS

YOU CAN TAKE YOUR CELL-PHONE NUMBER WITH YOU By David Coursey
TELECOM: Starting Nov. 24, you'll be able to take your cell-phone
number with you when you switch carriers. It's the single biggest
story in wireless today. Here's why--and what I think it'll mean to
you.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=9a-b6_GQTMESYQkga13bzR7VlFT0vuR

Cisco To Acquire Conferencing Vendor: Latitude's MeetingPlace
product, which includes conferencing software that runs on Latitude
appliances and on client systems, will become part of Cisco's IP
Communications portfolio.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,87065,00.html?nlid=AM

Senators object to Internet tax bill: Posted November 7, 12:21 p.m.
Pacific Time: The U.S. Senate failed to vote on a bill that would
permanently ban Internet-only taxes after several senators raised
questions about whether the bill would take current tax revenues away
from states and local governments.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=4A253B:1F4D50E

Irish boys to chat with NASA scientists: About 30 boys in Birr, Co.
Offaly will engage in a live videoconference with US space agency
NASA to discuss the students' investigation into the solar system.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9381414

(found at elearningpost)
eLearn Magazine: EXPECTATIONS OF PRIVACY
"[I]n the virtual classroom, keyed-in responses, virtual
hand-raising, and feedback indicators provide this essential
information to the instructor--information that has traditionally
remained private. And all this idiosyncratic, subjective, and
contextual data is captured and recorded. Such information is always
available to the instructor; the issue is whether others should have
access to it as well, and if so, how should it be used?"
http://www.elearnmag.org/subpage/sub_page.cfm?
article_pk=9344&page_number_nb=1&title=COLUMN

(found at elearningpost)
Cnet: Public schools: WHY JOHNNY CAN'T BLOG: "At issue is a
fundamental question heretical to many who have preached the power of
computers in education over the last two decades: Does technology do
more to improve learning than traditional teaching methods?"
http://news.com.com/2009-1023-5103805.html

(found at elearningpost)
Tech News World: The Future of Handheld Learning
"US schools will spend nearly US$6 billion on technology before the
2003-2004 school year is over, much of it on wireless PDAs . Why do
small screens have such a big impact on K-12 students and their
teachers?"
http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/31911.html


TRENDS / RESEARCH SECTION

Survey: Students Misuse Information Technology - USA Today
Colleges and universities that invest a lot of money in technology
may want to focus more on teaching students to use it responsibly.
More than eight of 10 undergraduates (83 percent) regularly use
information technology in their academic work, but an even larger
share (87 percent) say their peers at least "sometimes" copy and
paste
information from the Web without citing the source, according to the
2003 report from the National Survey of Student Engagement.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2003-11-09-students-it_x.htm

Links to learning object research (found at elearningpost)
http://www.reusability.org/blogs/david/
http://ocw.mit.edu/
http://educommons.org/

Videogames Help Visual Acuity [11.07.03]
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=2341

Tech peddles its influence on campus: More and more tech companies
are donating huge chunks of money into cash-strapped schools. In
return, they're receiving invaluable research and a potential
customer
base. But is there too much pressure, too soon?
http://ct.com.com/click?q=4b-k_l7IBUZW_V8TRW05013vF3anC4R

Journal of Interactive Online Learning
http://www.ncolr.org/jiol/index.html


EMERGING TECH SECTION

*from UB Daily
An End to PowerPoint Bloat
Impact Lab\'s POINTLess is a software add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint
that optimizes and compresses presentation files by up to 94 percent
so they e-mail and download faster, and take up significantly less
disk space.
http://portal.impactlabs.com/ImpactLabs/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=54

AI Loves Lucy: Future Watch: Through Lucy, Steve Grand wants to
develop a machine that can supplement or even supersede the digital
computer -- a machine that can think, feel and learn.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,86961,00.html?nlid=PM

Toshiba has bigger plans for small drives
http://ct.com.com/click?q=15-mYP_IGcglEgiKMatkAfDLFG_7KsR


MOBILE COMPUTING SECTION

DAVID BERLIND: Road warriors: throw away your power supplies
Mobility Electronics has come up with a single power supply that can
charge virtually any notebook, PDA, or cell phone. Better yet, it can
charge any two of the three simultaneously. And it works with any
power source--the plug in your wall, the lighter in your car, and the
outlets offered by some airlines. I tested the iGo Juice on a recent
8-hour road trip, and let me tell you: This is one package no road
warrior should be without.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=2e-eMTGIiK~5t3YLxXev_2D_eVWrBcR

Best Practices For Wireless Network Security: How to mitigate eight
major WLAN security risks.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,86951,00.html?nlid=MW

Top Considerations For Wi-Fi Application Development: How to plan
your development to take advantage of the many benefits of Wi-Fi.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,86862,00.html?nlid=MW

O2 RELEASES NEW GADGETS FOR CHRISTMAS: Mobile operator O2 Ireland has
begun the pre-Christmas hype for its two newest handsets, the XDA II
and the new O2 X1. The X1, a mobile phone, sells in Ireland for
EUR199 on a pre-pay plan and for EUR109 with a new contract. Among
the
goodies in the GPRS phone are its 65k colour display and a 180-degree
rotating VGA camera, which O2 says offers the best resolution for any
cameraphone on the market. Where the phone falls down, however, is in
its lack of infrared ports or Bluetooth. Also launched was the
company's widely anticipated XDA II, which follows on from last
year's launch of the XDA handheld computer and mobile phone, based on
Microsoft's Pocket PC operating system. The new EUR499 PDA comes with
a digital camera, Bluetooth and an MP3 player -- all features not
included in the original model.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9381307

PDA SALES FALL AGAIN BUT HP SHINES: Analyst firm Gartner has issued
more bad news for the PDA sector, with shipments of the devices still
dropping and the threat from mobile phones growing. Gartner is
reporting that worldwide PDA shipments declined 0.2 percent in the
third quarter of 2003. Although a relatively small decrease, it's the
eighth consecutive quarter the handheld computer market experienced a
year-over-year decline in shipments. The biggest drop has been in
PDAs that are based on non-mainstream operating systems. Despite the
doom and gloom, the report did contain good news for one firm,
Hewlett- Packard. HP saw its shipments grow 98.5 percent during the
period. PalmOne remains the market leader in the sector, however,
with
its shipments up 6.5 percent, giving the company a market share of 34.
2 percent.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9381225

IT RADAR: Improving Wireless LAN Integration
RSA Security's white paper on WLAN Authentication outlines security
issues in WLANs in brief terms, and describes the role of the
Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) for mutual authentication
and session key generation in a roaming environment.
Improving Wireless LAN Integration
http://ct.com.com/click?q=cf-ebM~QLw3uCSIITwBSnFIgviAoAdR
Toolkit: Wireless Networks
http://ct.com.com/click?q=94-rOVNQaIYkF0_6HEn9PFU8WivnWZR

TRAVELERS INSURANCE: SECURE LAPTOPS AND PDAS By Daniel Miller
HARDWARE: What would you do if, in the middle of a crucial
business trip, your laptop or PDA was lost or stolen? Dan tells you
how to make sure that never happens and, if it did, how to minimize
the damage.
http://ct.com.com/click?q=4d-~URsIKZOrAer0UCpSHMS1jjY0xyR

PDA market suffers at hand of feature-packed phones
Posted November 11, 8:23 a.m. Pacific Time: Worldwide shipments of
personal digital assistants (PDAs) continued to decline in the third
quarter of this year as mobile phones with similar functions claimed
a portion of their market, Gartner Inc. said this week.
http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=4A04F9:1F4D50E


GAMING SECTION

MICROSOFT TURNS TO TECHNOLOGY LICENSING FOR XBOX NEXT: Recent
agreements signed by Microsoft with a variety of companies to
supply technology for the successor to Xbox reveal that the company
is switching to the manufacturing model preferred by its rivals.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content/dev/2534

PS2 SALES CONTINUE TO RISE IN EUROPE: Although sales of the
PlayStation 2 appear to have peaked on a worldwide basis, European
sales continue to grow - with shipments of the PS2 in PAL territories
growing by some 25 per cent in the first half of the year.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content/ret/2520

NOKIA "PLEASED" WITH N-GAGE, BUT ADMITS THERE'S "A LOT TO DO": Almost
exactly a month after Nokia's N-Gage launched worldwide, a
spokesperson for the company has stated that it is "pretty pleased"
with customer reaction to the device, but that there's much to be
done if it's to meet expectations.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content/new/2518

REPORT PREDICTS TENFOLD JUMP IN M-GAMES: The European market for
mobile games will grow more than tenfold by 2008, according to a new
report. The mobile games market, valued at EUR0.2 billion in 2002,
will grow massively to nearly EUR3 billion in 2008, predicts the
"Mobile Content and Entertainment Forecasts and Analysis" report,
which was authored by consulting company Analysys. Mobile gaming will
be key in driving growth in the mobile content and entertainment
services, with nearly 80 percent of gaming revenue (EUR2.4 billion)
derived from downloadable games, according to the report. The
report's author, Rachael Beale, told ENN that Java games are
especially hot and that both on-line and downloadable games will be
further encouraged by the increasing availability of SIP (session
initiation protocol) and 3G services.
http://www.electricnews.net/news.html?code=9380762

SECURITY SECTION

Zombie Machines Fueling New Cybercrime Wave: As more homes connect to
broadband systems, computers are becoming mor vulnerable to hackers
and virus writers who can turn them into "zombie" machines, ready to
carry out malevolent commands.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,87075,00.html?nlid=PM

Microsoft Patches Three Critical Security Problems: Microsoft
announced patches for three "critical" security problems and a fourth
labeled "important" in its second monthly summary of security
bulletins aimed at making it easier for its customers to stay on top
of patch releases.
http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,87058,00.html?nlid=PM

Hackers Crack N-Gage [11.12.03]
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=2362


HUMOR AND MISC. SECTION



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