Ruling on iPhone OKs jailbreaking

Library of Congress opens up Wi-Fi applications and carrier options: Link to article.

Apple worldwide market share continues to fall

Current technical issues presage further issues: Link to article.

Google opens app development to non-programmers

Open source developers hail drag and drop interface for the masses: Link to article.

Android continues climb at the expense of other OEMs

Apple iPhone 4 not factored in this quarters numbers: Link to article.

Google retains toehold; China keeps censorship

Internet search leader offers Chinese users a choice to redirect their queries: Link to article.

New Google YouTube mobile site an end-run around Apple

Following our note on Monday regarding the battle over the idle screen and keeping customers in one's commercial zone, Google premiers its mobile YouTube site, complete with Android programming, accessible through Safari from any iPhone! Link to article.

The battle over the idle screen

Seen from the perspective of the home screen or phone top, the legal wrangling between device and software giants -- such as Google, Apple, and BlackBerry -- is about capturing and holding customers in their commercial zone. Link to article.

Can Yahoo's algorithms democratize the news?

Factoring user queries in content delivery could serve as a means around editorial censorship under the right conditions, but whether Yahoo meets these requirements remains to be seen: Link to article.

Bar code revolution just beginning

Smartphone readers link physical and digital worlds: Link to article.

New interfaces show promise for higher ed and K-12 woes

It's no secret that children of the digital age prefer their mobile devices (smartphones and laptops) over their classroom teachers. Kids buy cheap feature phones to check at the door so they can use their smartphones to text under their sleeves -- It's easy when you send 80 text messages a day! -- and they social network on their laptops and netbooks and iPads while supposedly taking notes.

Instead of fighting this, educators ought to look at some of the new software being developed that provides for the use of social networking in the learning environment. Students can use video calling and see themselves and their classmates within an interface that also includes such features as white boards, slides, graded papers, texting, and all the backend information one expects from an LMS.

Learning should be fun!