Dell, S 2006, ‘ New School’, Telephony, vol. 247, iss. 6, pp. 26, (online ProQuest)
The author, researchers, and the faculty at the Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, N.C., believe that the use of technology is crucial and critical to help their students go through the academics effectively and help them keeping in touch with it even in the time they are at work. So, they hired a carrier network to keep on posting the documents, PowerPoint presentations and other course material over mobile phones. Researchers and programmers named it as MobileU which uses windows operated smartphones. In the process of research, over 100 people are chosen and are given all the facilities. MobileU features include transport information from current place to campus (using GPS), browsing library information and so on.
This technology of providing students with transport information and Wireless network services to obtain course material, updates and other technical information on their smartphones and laptops would be of great advantage to the students.
