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On 05/01/11 15:17, Roland Tarver wrote:
http://telecomyatra.afaqs.com/news/?sid=2698_Software+to+turn+every+phone+into+a+cell-tower+ "Peep Wireless Technology (PWT), a Delaware-based company, has revealed a software app that turns a phone into a small cell tower (client/server viral transmitter/receiver). The application will be revealed at the Consumer Electronics Show or CES in Las Vegas later this week. It is called PeepApp and will initially be available only for the iPhone. Later it will be made for other mobile operating systems as well." Interesting....
Eric Raymond wrote about that idea last summer: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2115
It appears that the company that he was writing about is developing software for Android phones: http://www.servalproject.org/
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