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Posts Tagged Connectivity

Wireless ad-hoc mesh in development

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, [...]


Nearness: a non-contact sport

Nearness from timo on Vimeo. Getting liked all over the internet: *Just cut to the chase and give them the Nobel, that’s what I say. Bruce Sterling


Aaaaaand … we’re back.

Sequence of events: Something broke and caused a 500 I tried to fix it and broke more things I decided to upgrade to WP 2.7.1 (booosh!) I didn’t really read all the instructions I did an import of the sql db I backed up through phpMyAdmin (gnarly) Something magickally fixed What an epic. This was [...]


3 Australia To Launch Facebook Phone next week

From the Washington Post: The ultimate goal for these cheaper 3G smartphones is to drive more consumers to use mobile data, or a INQ Mobile CEO Frank Meehan told Unstrung, “You need to drive data usage higher right across all the handset segments. You want the majority of customers, not the top-end of the community [...]


Gmail mobile client gets offline support

A 2.0 release that includes offline support for J2ME and Blackberry. Includes email account switching between Gmail and Google Apps accounts. Introducing Gmail for mobile 2.0


BigPond’s first tweets not music to all ears

After becoming the first Australian telco to launch a customer service site last Thursday, Telstra has come under fire from countless bloggers who have dismissed its attempts to engage customers and create a community of technical support as a blatant marketing ploy. Bigpond bitten by blogosphere You just can’t please some people.


Google’s New Patent

Google’s New Patent. Its called Flexible Communication Systems And Methods and would ultimately create an auction type marketplace for all of your wireless services. The concept is that consumers should have a right to easily choose who their provider is in different locations. One at home, one at work, one in your car, one here, [...]


Visual Interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web (VISSW 2009)

This looks interesting – a workshop exploring interface developments that respond to the shift of the web from a predominantly read-only medium to a read/write. …the need for intelligent and visual human interfaces to this evolving Web is not limited simply to the modalities of searching and browsing (important as these are). As the Web [...]


@God – tweet me back

I don’t think God is on Gospelr, but there seem to be some devoted Gospelrs. I notice that @gatesofhell has disappeared though. Hope they’re ok. via @mpesce.


Own Your Failure

Own Your Failure is a response to Obama’s call: “It’s time for them to own their failure. It’s time for us to change America.” However: Barack Obama is right: the Republicans should own the failure of the last 8 years… but we all know the chances of that happening are slim! That leaves a lot [...]


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