Author Archives: Tryggvi Thayer

Mobile carriers in a conundrum as data traffic grows

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Tryggvi Thayer

The Swedish Mobile technology company, Ericsson, reported at the recent CTIA 2010 conference that data traffic has now surpassed voice traffic on mobile networks worldwide. The really surprising thing about this is that this growth occurs despite the rather dismal … Continue reading →

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Global Information Technology Report 2009-2010

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Tryggvi Thayer

The World Economic Forum has just published its Global Information Technology Report for 2009-2010. There’s some interesting movement on the accompanying Network Readiness Index. A few E. Asian countries are continuing their upward move, most notably Hong Kong and Taiwan. … Continue reading →

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Still *trying* to have fun with the OLPC

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Tryggvi Thayer

My daughter (9 yrs) has been playing around with the OLPC laptop for about a week now. Her progress has been fairly predictable. The computer really is very easy to figure out. She’s especially drawn to the mutlimedia applications that … Continue reading →

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Robot teachers in S. Korea

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Tryggvi Thayer

This is quite interesting. S. Koreans are developing “robot teachers” to function as teaching assistants in public schools. Apparently they are working fairly well. A recent project showed that elementary school students working with these robots in an english class … Continue reading →

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m-learning or m-somethingelse?

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Tryggvi Thayer

I rather quickly skimmed over this paper on “m-learning” after listening to a presentation on m-learning at a conference I recently attended. The concept certainly isn’t new to me. m-learning has been getting a lot of attention recently, so the … Continue reading →

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Having fun with OLPC

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Tryggvi Thayer

I finally get to have a little fun with an OLPC laptop. Borrowed this from an institute at the university and plan to follow my daughters path of discovery over the weekend. I’ll probably post some reflections afterwards.

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