nGOmobile winners awarded

Mobile technology organisation kiwanja.net has announced the winners of nGOmobile, a competition aimed at encouraging grassroots non-profits in the developing world think about how they could benefit from text messaging in their work, says Fox Business.

The inaugural nGOmobile competition ran for three months from October 2007, and grassroots NGOs around the world were invited to submit short project ideas explaining how greater access to mobile technology - and SMS text messaging in particular - would benefit them and their work.

The winning projects, selected from a pool of over 70 entries, come from Kenya, Uganda, Mexico and Azerbaijan.

St Pius X School in Loudonville recently received a $33 965 grant to buy a mobile technology lab, reports timesunion.com.

The funds from the John E Sackett Foundation allowed the school to buy a mobile lab featuring 30 Dell laptop computers with wireless Internet access, an interactive whiteboard, a laptop cart for docking and recharging the laptops, an LCD projector and a stylus pen and printers.

"I was thrilled when I learned we had received such a generous grant," St Pius X School principal Dennis Mullahy said in a prepared release. "Although our 600 students already have access to an outstanding technology department, this donation is a beautiful addition for both students and teachers, and enables technology to be integrated into all subjects in all grade levels on a daily basis."

A new Strategy Analytics report, "Automotive Wireless: Applications Demand Must Drive Technology Choices for the Vehicle", covers the implications of growing consumer demand for infotainment, voice communications, navigation and mobile media content for vehicular wireless technologies, states Auto Industry.

The automotive market is under increasing pressure to introduce both wireless links into vehicles for portable electronic devices - such as cellphones and portable media devices - and automotive systems which provide wireless Internet connectivity.

Strategy Analytics says short-term solutions will be dominated by Bluetooth systems, such as the Ford/Microsoft/Continental Sync system that allows hands-free cellphone calls and wireless audio streaming from portable electronic devices.