Wednesday, March 7, 2007

New Stuff on the Horizon

New technology announcements from Microsoft are a nice tie-in to some of the themes/trends at this year's GDC -

This eSchool News article: http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStoryts.cfm?ArticleID=6934
Discusses recent initatives by research teams at Microsoft to deliver the next great technologies and applications for education. Among those discussed are a programming game for the xbox that allows children to program a robot named Boku, New location-based push and pull advertising strategies (ads that can be delivered to mobile devices of people wandering through an area as well as content that can be called up by sending a photo of a CD or DVD lable), as well as new information organizing/sharing tools.

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