July 24, 2003
Wireless Peer to Peer technology
Mobilmag has an article today on Apeera, Inc, a French company which has developed a solution for mobile network operators, enabling mobile phone users to share applications such as mobile games, pictures, cartoons or personal files with their friends and colleagues via their mobile phones.
This company got a quite a few write-ups in the French press last year and there's a good article in English in the BBC.
-- For more on peer-to-peer wireless technology, there is an interesting essay in the TheFeature.com entitled «Monster Mesh: Decentralized Wireless Broadband» by By Kevin Werbach, published January 21, 2002
-- Swiss University EPFL has an ongoing government funded project on this subject called terminodes.org.
-- Howard Rheingold in «Smart Mobs» has a related chapter "Mobile Ad Hoc Social Networks" on pages 169 through 174.
-- And here is a desktop application called PocketPeer, allowing users to share, search and download files between computer to computer and from computer to mobile phone or PDA."
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