mobile communities
Five weird ways to bridge the digital divide
News A few years back, UK-based company SkyLinc was touting its Low-Cost Integrated Broadband Radio Access communications platform - a delivery method that proposed to use inflatable base stations, tethered to fibre-optic poles, to bring the benefits... [06 Mar 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Protestors clueless on wireless health risks
Comment These groups include those preventing base station towers being erected close to their schools or in the middle of their communities. In the mean time I'm off to install my own mobile base station so I can increase the power level to my handset and... [04 Mar 2008]
Satellite comms to bridge digital divide?
News Dr Hamadoun Touré, the International Telecommunications Union's (ITU) secretary-general, said satellite comms technology can play a vital role in connecting remote and isolated communities around the world. [28 Feb 2008]
Microsoft to embrace open-source and says won't sue
News Microsoft has announced changes in its business practices to work better with software from other providers, including open-source communities. Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008 Photo stories [22 Feb 2008]
Government admits to 200 more laptop thefts
News Department for Communities and Local Government: 28 laptops stolen and four mobiles stolen and one lost. The figures for phone, laptop and PDA loss and theft across government departments reveal the MoJ has had 135 laptops and 56 mobile phones... [19 Feb 2008]
Photos: Behind the scenes at Mobile World Congress 2008
Photo It will be based upon the ability of people and communities and information to be shared together. The world's biggest mobile phone trade show - Mobile World Congress 2008 - kicked off in Barcelona on 11 February. [18 Feb 2008]
Accelerating 3G Mobile Video Communications
White Paper Mobility, multimedia and the explosion of communities are three major trends in communications today. With the adoption of 3G phones, capturing and sharing video will be an increasingly important part of the personal and business communications in... [15 Feb 2008]
Tech to cut red tape and leave police to police
News Home Secretary Jacqui Smith accepted his recommendations saying his review will "cut unnecessary red tape and free up police officers to focus on protecting their communities". Various time saving, crime-fighting devices are also being used... [08 Feb 2008]
BlackBerry's Lotus helps businesses get connected
News The software features web 2.0-based components including blogs, communities, profiles, and 'Dogear' - a function which allows users to access others' research bookmarks. Business users will now be able to engage in mobile social networking with IBM... [24 Jan 2008]
Unified Communications Delivers 'Convergence Innovation' and the Foundation for Success
White Paper The MaRS Discovery District is a 700,000-square-foot next-generation research facility, bringing together academic, business, capital and scientific research communities to collaborate on and commercialize new scientific discoveries. [11 Jan 2008]
Yahoo! pockets Zimbra for $350m
News s $300m purchase earlier this month of display ad provider Blue Lithium are an indication of the future direction of the company as it redefines its place in the market, says Brad Garlinghouse, senior vice president for communications and... [18 Sep 2007]
Developer Expands Mobile Productivity Solution for Greater Efficiency and Sale
White Paper In the highly transactional-based home-building industry, Pinnacle Communities, already an early adopter of technology, was seeking to enhance its ability to transact business away from the office. The company settled on a combination of software... [30 Aug 2007]
Mobile Devices and Users - Keep mobile working safe, secure and under control
White Paper Use of laptops has grown from limited user communities to widespread desktop replacement and broad deployment. Remote connection has extended from fixed location dial-in to wireless on the move, and smart handheld devices such as PDAs have become... [19 Aug 2007]
Learning With Wireless Mobile Devices and Social Software
White Paper The paper outlines the beginning of research into the synthesis of mobile personal technologies, social technologies, and constructivist pedagogies, and briefly explores the potential for creating student-centred collaborative learning communities... [01 Aug 2007]
A Secure Ad-Hoc Routing Approach Using Localized Self-Healing Communities
White Paper Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) are vulnerable to routing attacks, especially attacks launched by non-cooperative (selfish or compromised) network members and appear to be protocol compliant. For instance, since packet loss is common in mobile... [01 Aug 2007]
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