Thursday, August 8, 2002
TV in a pocket
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 07:00 AM
http://computertimes.asiaone.com.sg/v2/updt01.shtml
Pocket PCs are popping up in more and more educational settings lately - it's cool to see students being able to take advantage of the technology available to them. Back in my day, the best I had was a Velo 1 - but it still made everyone jealous.
"Hundreds of PocketPC device owners at the National University of Singapore (NUS) can now watch network television wirelessly anywhere on the campus. Programmes from 14 current affairs and educational TV channels, including BBC, CNN, Discovery and MediaWorks channels U and i, are being streamed live to the handheld devices as well as to desktops and notebooks across the campus. About half of the university's total student strength of 30,000 use notebooks...
...Mr Soh Hock Heng, senior systems engineer at CIT, said: "With the service available on PocketPC-based devices, our students can enjoy the programmes anywhere, anytime." That's exactly what Ms Ma Seow Lin, 23, a student at the School of Computing, has been doing. "We often have breaks between our various classes, lasting between one and three hours," she said. "Watching TV on my iPaq handheld is an ideal way for me to spend the time." Ms Ma felt that students would benefit if class lectures could be beamed to their PDAs (personal digital assistants). The university says videos of class lectures will be available on the PDAs soon." Source: RSKT
Pocket PCs are popping up in more and more educational settings lately - it's cool to see students being able to take advantage of the technology available to them. Back in my day, the best I had was a Velo 1 - but it still made everyone jealous.
"Hundreds of PocketPC device owners at the National University of Singapore (NUS) can now watch network television wirelessly anywhere on the campus. Programmes from 14 current affairs and educational TV channels, including BBC, CNN, Discovery and MediaWorks channels U and i, are being streamed live to the handheld devices as well as to desktops and notebooks across the campus. About half of the university's total student strength of 30,000 use notebooks...
...Mr Soh Hock Heng, senior systems engineer at CIT, said: "With the service available on PocketPC-based devices, our students can enjoy the programmes anywhere, anytime." That's exactly what Ms Ma Seow Lin, 23, a student at the School of Computing, has been doing. "We often have breaks between our various classes, lasting between one and three hours," she said. "Watching TV on my iPaq handheld is an ideal way for me to spend the time." Ms Ma felt that students would benefit if class lectures could be beamed to their PDAs (personal digital assistants). The university says videos of class lectures will be available on the PDAs soon." Source: RSKT
