Category Archives: mobile web

New Mobile Technologies come to aid of Charity

Users of Greater Manchester Charity, The Furniture Station, are going to benefit from a new mobile and web based referral system designed and developed by 3 Sheep Ltd. The system will be officially launched on the 1st October 2009  at the Charity’s Offices at Hazel Grove Baptist Church at an event attended by the Mayor [...]

Mimas: Tellling Tales - Mobile Learning Event

I recently presented at the Mimas: Telling Tales - Mobile Learning event at The University of Westminster in London. Mimas is a national data centre based at The University of Manchester. They decamped to London for the day and hosted a great forum on Mobile Learning. Lorraine Estelle from JISC Collections gave the opening  and [...]

Mobile Learning in Revolt?

It’s weird I ask the question, is “Mobile Learning worth it?” and a few hours later in my in-box I get notification of Chris Nash’s The End of the MLearning Revolution over at Handheld Learning, a forum I have been a member of for quite a while now.
I’ve always championed large scale access to Mobile [...]

Mobile Learning - is it worth it?

So can we really do it? Mobile learning surely it’s just a buzz phrase that hooks in a bit of funding every now and again for various quirky projects?
I’ll be speaking next week at the Mimas (The University of Manchester) Mobile Learning: Telling Tales event on the subject of “Changing Gear - Implementing Mobile Learning”. [...]

Google Spreadsheets - Mobile Editing

Google is now allowing mobile editing of spreadsheets stored on its documents system. Users have had read access for some time now but now owners of smartphones (S60, Android and iPhone) can edit spreadsheets on the go as well.
I’ve tried the new feature out using an N95 and it certainly works, unsurprisingly complex features are [...]

What’s your Snow Day Strategy?

It’s been snowing in the UK. More is forecast. When this happens sooner or later in any conversation you will hear just how ill prepared we are for it and for many businesses and organisations productivity comes to a halt and days are lost.
Snow, ice, windy - bad weather changes things, the travel plans are [...]

Digital Push and the need for Digital Literacy

The UK Government is planning to boost the profile of the Digital Industry (BBC), which is worth £50 billion to the UK economy. Among the announcements are plans to improve broadband speed and access across the country. The report (Digital Britain) led by Lord Carter also demonstrates the increasing prominent role of convergence technologies with [...]

Can the High Street Fight back?

This year is going to see a big rise in spending on the Internet according to the latest NMA survey. With recession looming consumers are looking to get the best deal they can and increasingly the Web is the destination of choice for savvy cash conscious shopper.
…And why not?
As well as not having to get [...]

New Accessibility Guidelines

They are finally released, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) are now published, after many years in the making. Out-Law describes them as the “de facto standard”. Despite many changes in web technology and how the use of the web is now common place, this is actually the first update of the [...]

N97 Singalong

Just like the beginning of a Sing-along-Sound-of-Music, where the crowd begins to whisper “she’s coming” as Maria appears over the brow of the hill, so too is the gradual Internet buzz surrounding the announced Nokia N97.

If the early reports are true then the new device available sometime next year for around £440 will be “milestone” [...]