In Austria, a PDA serves as a mobile exhibition guide during the De Kooning exhibition at BA-CA Kunstforum. The offical start of the Personal Art Assistant is in April with the René Margritte exhibition.
Technical infrastructure is by T-Systems, Austria.

Via pressetext: Multimedialer Ausstellungsguide für mehr Kunstgenuss

Definition of ENUM: The mapping of „Telephone Numbers“ to Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) using the Domain Name System (DNS) in the domain e164.arpa

The purpose of ENUM is to enable the convergence between the PSTN* and the Internet.

*PSTN = Public Switched Telephone Network, which refers to the international telephone system based on copper wires carrying analog voice data. Telephone service carried by the PSTN is often called plain old telephone service (POTS). See also PSTN on Wikipedia.

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From Domain pulse 2005 looks at the key topics of convergence of telephony and the Internet, and spam

Accessing the Internet with a (conventional) telephone
ENUM (Electronic Number Mapping) is the name of the new application which provides a link between the classical fixed network and the Internet. Contrary to the case in Germany and Switzerland, where ENUM trials are still underway, the Austrian registry, nic.at, is already able to report on the experience it has acquired. The University of Vienna's more than 3000 employees will soon be accessible under a single ENUM domain – whatever the time of day and irrespective of the particular location they happen to be in.

In Switzerland, SWITCH is initially testing the convergence of telephony and Internet in the university sector. As Marcel Parodi from SWITCH reports: "Our test operation is intended to provide information on the particular local situation. All of Austria's experience is beneficial to us." Europe ranks right up front in the international comparison. The world's first international ENUM telephone call took place between Austria and Slovakia.

See also:
ENUM - Intro: Grundlagen, Wirkungsweise und praktische Vorführung von ENUM
ENUM - Erfahrungen aus Österreich
More at: Domain pulse

Psiloc Screen Capture

With Screen Capture in the device you can capture screen contents anytime using a defined key combination.
Pictures are saved in a folder accessible via the Images application. You can select one of the formats: BMP, JPG or MBM. Screen Capture works in the background and has no influence on any other running applications.

We use it to take screenshots of the mobile version.

I have already blogged about this (Audio Messaging), but I found it interesting to hear the name podcasting in this respect.
Xpress Audio Messaging - Podcasting Tool from Nokia

Via Martin

Forget wikis, blogs and other online learning tools -- one professor says the future of higher education is mobile.

Bryan Alexander asks us to start by understanding that mobile machines are by their nature intimate media -- they are not just untethered from the desktop, they are carried in the pocket, held in the hand, rested on the lap. Because of this intimacy, "emotional investments increase," Alexander claims, citing research to that effect: "Michele Forman, the 2001 National Teacher of the Year in the United States, notes that her high-school students became very attached to their wireless laptops. They significantly increased their personal writing and composition. Such machines become prosthetics for information, memory and creativity. Are we ready to respond to such attitudes from IT staff, instructors, and participants in the physical and information architectures of campus spaces?"

"The nomads arrive suddenly, surprising the urban population and appearing without warning in city streets, markets, libraries and homes. Kafka’s tale focuses on the incomprehension of the city-dwellers, as well as on their dogged willingness to attempt living life as if the nomads simply weren’t there. The story charts their progressive decay and their slipping grasp on reality while the nomads build a new civilization literally in their front yard. It’s a very funny story, in Kafka’s unique way, but of course it’s also a cautionary tale, especially for those of us in higher education. At colleges and universities around the world, the nomadic swarms are already arriving."

Via Martin Lindner from Microlearning.org

See also:
Tech News from The National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education

TECH TALK: The Mobile Phone Platform: Quotes
Just quoting Russell:

The person who comes up with the app that compels a person to use their phone without considering the fact that it's a phone is going to have a killer app on their hand. One could argue the opposite, that mobile phone apps *should* only be used in the mobile context, but I think that's too narrow minded.

MICROLEARNING 2005 :: Learning & Working in New Media Environments
International Conference
June 23 - 24, 2005 :: Innsbruck (Austria)

We'd like to invite all practitioners and researchers interested in innovative learning technologies and didactics, especially m-learning, and/or in new concepts of "microcontent" and an ubiquituous "metaweb",

More information at www.microlearning.org

The editors of the Journal of the Research Center for Educational
Technology (www.rcetj.org) are looking for manuscripts for an upcoming theme issue on ubiquitous computing. Details are attached in a doc file. Please contact either Mark van 't Hooft or one of the editors with questions. Because the journal is web-based, we are particularly interested in works that include multimedia components.

For questions related to manuscript submission please go to
http://www.rcetj.org or contact either Mark van 't Hooft or one of the journal editors.

Experts chime in on future of camera phones

[...] "Every year we have a new higher projection for the camera phones market," said panel moderator Jed Hurwitz of STMicroelectronics. "In 2004, mobile phone vendors introduced the first handsets with image sensors that had 3.2 million pixels. And Samsung promises 10 million pixels by the end of the year. But will consumers care?"

[...] Citing what he called "communication ubiquity" and "imaging by the general population" could result in the next big set of mobile phone applications, said Etoh.

[...] "Video telephony is known to be a killer application for 3G," added Jinsung Choi of LG Electronics. "However, it turns out that other relatively simple multimedia applications such as MMS are more popular in reality. The way end users accept new applications are different from what we think," said Choi.

[...] Consumers are accustomed to carrying mobile phones, fueling the used of phone cameras. "The human desire to be able to store memories and share means the camera phone is set to be the preferred consumer imaging solution (vs digital cameras)," said Nokia's Janne Haavisto.

Picturephoning

Le Figaro wrote in: Les services sur mobiles promis à un bel avenir grâce à la 3G

Avec la téléphonie mobile 3G les services mobiles vont connaître une nouvelle croissance avec en produit phare la musique, mais aussi les jeux, la vidéo ainsi que les "blogs" et autres "chats".

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Autre secteur prometteur, les services dits "communautaires" comme les "chats" ou les "blogs". Ces journaux intimes sont désormais accessibles sur des téléphones 3G. Agrémentés de photos ou d'images, ces textes ont besoin de haut débit pour être consultés confortablement.

Translation:
With mobile 3G telephony, mobile services will know new heights with music, but also games, video as well as with "blogs" and "chats". [...] And other promising sector are so-called community services like chats and blogs. The intimate diaries are also viewable via 3G mobile phones. Full with photos, these texts need broadband to be viewed with ease.