Researchers from Australia and Singapore are developing a wireless ad-hoc mesh networking technology that uses mobile handsets to share and carry information including high quality video.
The mesh network will make use of Bluetooth or Wifi and could be used at a large sporting event, conference, or even a crowded city centre during an emergency, to swap information between handsets – even if the mobile phone network was offline.
“If you think of this as a totally unstructured mesh. It is not pre-planned or pre-organised, there is no authentication of nodes, technically speaking. Even though you have wireless connections between nodes, there is nothing pre-planned and the network just forms. It would work very well in very crowded events,” she said.
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No Comments Yet | Posted 2 October 2009 @ 10am | Connectivity, Mobile
To that end, Moissinac said that, for example, all photos on Facebook Mobile are low-resolution. And when dealing with carriers based in emerging countries with 2G networks, Facebook can make photos smaller or bury them within the app altogether so they’re not displayed when a user first logs on. But going forward, it will likely have to offer additional concessions, since for Facebook, which just released its first official mobile application for Android devices yesterday and is currently developing an app for Palm’s WebOS, accommodating carriers’ concerns will continue to be necessary in order for it to successfully expand across the mobile realm.
via Carriers to Facebook Mobile: Get on a Data Diet .
No Comments Yet | Posted 10 September 2009 @ 11am | Data, Industry, Mobile, Telcos
Jonny says:
However, mobile content doesn’t usually have many similarities with online content. That’s because the context is different. Mobile content might be more concerned with things like location and immediacy. I need something near me, right now. Or perhaps you’re after something specific to a particular device, like a ring tone, application or game. We’ve now got the complexity of non-standard content along with a new context to consider. Here’s an example: if your product is targeted at a geographic region, is it possible to optimise your site content to give a higher rank when someone does a search while physically occupying that geographic region?
Mobilista » Why do I need Mobile SEO?.
No Comments Yet | Posted 3 September 2009 @ 5pm | Mobile, SEO
