Pearson To Develop iPod Educational Material

Pearson Education are to develop educational content for teachers and students which will play on an iPod. What a perfect strong-arm tactic, one that I'd imagine parents will find hard to refuse.

[...] Students will be able to download study guides that work with Pearson's educational texts and listen to review notes to prepare for exams.

Via Engadget

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LG, Sprint introduce new music phone, FUSIC (LX550)

Sprint and LG Electronics MobileComm introduce FUSIC, a trendsetting mobile phone with a progressive design and music and entertainment services delivered at broadband-like speeds via the Sprint Power Vision Network.

Pupils perform 'alarming' feat

A high-pitched alarm which cannot be heard by adults has been hijacked by schoolchildren to create ringtones so they can get away with using phones in class.

Schoolchildren have recorded the sound, which they named Teen Buzz, and spread it from phone to phone via text messages and Bluetooth technology.

Now they can receive calls and texts during lessons without teachers having the faintest idea what is going on.

You can listen to a recording of teen buzz here . I didn't hear anything. There is also a torrent download. (you need to go to bittorrent do download the client first)


Via Amy and Emily

Niall Kennedy's State of the aggregator

Mobile phones are becoming ubiquitous consumption devices of on-demand content. Phones are used to deliver highly targeted content to a 2" screen while you want for the bus, commute to work, or have a few spare minutes before the next meeting.

[...] Mobile phones are a perfect environment for rich feed payloads such as audio or video. Modern cell networks have average advertised download speeds of 300-500kbps and actual even faster speeds in real-world testing.