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It’s Griffey’s first time in Canada! Welcome!

• stats…

  • 4.1 billion people have a cell phone

  • 2.4 billion people use cell phones for texting. texting is by far the most used communication method

• trends…

  • most of these phones are currently  “dumb phones”

  • by 2011, most phones will be smart phones

  • Nokia largest global manufacturer of smartphones 2009

  • before the iPad launched in Canada, there were over 6000 already in use in Canada

  • Canada only has a 67% cell phone penetration rate, while Ireland has a 120% cell phone penetration rate. The US is at 91%

  • MIFI from Sprint and Verison. 3 credit cards thick. Be your own portable hot spot. About $100 in US.

  • Notionink (same peops that made XO “One laptop per Child” ) Cool screen technology for use in sun, etc.

  • Verizon is interested in working with Google and leveraging Chrome as a web based operating system

  • 2 million ipads sold in 60 days!

  • new iphone 4 has a gyroscope in it: to tell where in “space” it is.

• future…

  • Gibson quote: “the future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed”

  • in five years, the iphone is going to be “in cereal boxes”, so accessible

  • 4G technology = WiMax & LTE

    • 3G gets about 5MB/sec downloading

    • LTE STARTS at 100MB/sec “like walking around with an ethernet cord in your pocket”

  • flip scanning for books: 200 pages a minute by flipping through the book. researcher was asked where he saw it going, he said “it’s going to be a cell phone”. how does this change the library world? walk in, sit down, rip a book, walk out with it!

  • Google goggles: take a picture of something and Google figures out what it is you’re looking at by object recognition, then search, then results return. leverage this into the Google translation device: take a picture of a different language, and get a translation result. combine THAT with flip scanning! woah.

  • Clay Shirky: “technology doesn’t become socially interesting until it becomes technologically boring”

• issues…

  • privacy, bien sur!

  • DRM (Digital Rights Management)

For more and for slides, etc.: www.delicious.com/griffey/olita

~ by jandawson on June 11, 2010.

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