Archive for June 2009

MCG Mobile App

In today’s Chronicle of Higher Education, Medical College of Georgia is noted for their own iPhone apps, including medical ones just for their students and faculty. The advantage to having their mobile resources packaged in an app, as opposed UVa HSL’s mobile-optimized web page, is that the app is available even when no internet or [...]

iPhone 3.0 Update also works for iPod Touch

It came out last week, and could be coming to an iPhone or iPod Touch near you. Free for iPhones, $9.99 for iPod Touches. Read a review (MacWorld) to see if this update is worth it!

iPhone price drops, faster speed

Apple announced yesterday that the iPhone 3G will now be $99. Want the newest, faster 3G S just announced? $199. See details from the Washington Post.

Palm Pre

Palm’s newest entry into the smartphone market premiered Saturday. Talk is it is a good competitor for the iPhone market. Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal has an extensive review here:
http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20090603/palms-new-pre-takes-on-iphone/

RefMobile

RefWorks announced the launch of RefMobile, a new interface that enables students and researchers to use the RefWorks web-based research management service from anywhere, via web-enabled mobile phones, smart phones, and personal data assistants (PDAs).

The RefMobile interface gives users immediate access to the most commonly used RefWorks functions, including searching their entire RefWorks databases, [...]