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= Mobile and Ubiquitous = Team Members go to your assigned team page. = TEAM A = = TEAM B = = TEAM C =


 * The Steroids ** // - Flattener #10, p 185-199 //

Personal digital devices like mobile phones, iPods, personal digital assistants, instant messaging, and voice over IP
 * Emerging and new technologies
 * Digitized content (connections, protocols and standards)
 * Mobile: anywhere, any time, through a variety of devices (wireless connectivity)
 * Personal: By the individual, for the individual, on their own device
 * What does the flat world look like taking into account all of these new forms of collaboration?
 * The first steroid: Computing power
 * The second steroid: Breakthroughs in instant messaging, peer-to-peer networks
 * The third steroid: Breakthroughs in making phone calls over the Internet (VOIP)
 * The fourth steroid: Videoconferencing
 * The fifth steroid: Advances in computer graphics
 * The sixth steroid: Wireless technologies and devices


 * Mobile and Ubiquitous, ideas to get started **
 * Explore and discuss the development of mobile and ubiquitous computing from a global perspective, giving specific examples from personal use and from other areas of the world
 * Provide evidence of how mobile and ubiquitous computing has impacted on education and business
 * Provide current examples of the emerging new tools (devices and methods of connectivity) that we should all be taking notice of now