Purdue chosen for Verizon 4G rollout
Verizon Wireless has announced that Purdue University will be one of 38 locations across the United States chosen for the rollout of its first large-scale 4G Long Term…
Mobile and Handheld Technologies
Mobile device boom sparks U.S. web address shortage
A telecommunications official on Sept. 28 warned that the United States could run out of unique internet addresses to assign to new devices by the end of next…
University libraries not hurrying to the mobile web
The University of California, San Diego, has joined a small list of schools with library web sites accessible through any smart phone as campus technology leaders try to…
Facebook Places: Marketing tool or educational asset?
The University of Kentucky, if all goes according to the campus’s marketing plan, could pop up in 1.3 million Facebook news feeds during the fall semester—and students might…
RIM readies its answer to iPad
The Wall Street Journal reports that BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. could unveil its new tablet computer—as well as the operating system that will power it—as early…
Facebook denies it is secretly building a phone
The tech blogs were abuzz Sunday with a report in TechCrunch that Facebook is secretly building a phone. But the company says it’s not true, according to The…
Year of the smart phone on college campuses?
An international market research firm predicts a 55-percent jump in smart-phone sales this year—a projection that could lead to an unprecedented increase in internet-enabled phone use during colleges’…
iPhone 4 Wi-Fi proves a challenge for one university
The iPhone 4 is the first to support 802.11n, which offers the highest Wi-Fi data rates and throughput. But it runs only on the crowded 2.4GHz band, and…
How schools are putting the iPad to work
When Apple’s iPad tablet went on sale to the public last spring, David Woodbury ordered 30 for the libraries at North Carolina State University to be available for…
Oracle sues Google over its Android OS
Oracle Corp. has sued Google Inc., alleging patent and copyright infringement in the development of its popular Android smart-phone software, Reuters reports.