ACM International Workshop on Ambient Media Computing: Media Data Integration (MDI 2009) "In multimedia computing and management, ambient/ubiquitous/pervasive media integration is attracting a lot of attention. In particular, we are seeing large quantities of media data generated from various sources and presented to users. New emerging applications, such as digital entertainment, gaming, and e-learning, [...]

BBC NEWS | Technology | Symbian to develop mobile apps Nokia's plan for Symbian emerges: "Symbian, the operating system on nearly half the world's smartphones, is to become involved in the development of mobile applications, or apps. Symbian will be a one-stop location for app developers, standardising and testing software and then making it [...]

SSRN-Patents and the Regress of Useful Arts by Andrew Torrance, Bill Tomlinson "Patent systems are often justified by an assumption that innovation will be spurred by the prospect of patent protection, leading to the accrual of greater societal benefits than would be possible under non-patent systems. However, little empirical evidence exists to support this [...]

Handheld Learning – The End of the mLearning Revolution "The excitement about how portable and ubiquitous technologies might change traditional teaching methods should have centred around the widening opportunities to inspire and capture learning as it occurs rather than looking at it as an opportunity to deliver a vague notion of ‘personalised learning’ through [...]