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13 May 08

MIT students show power of open cell phone systems (MIT Technology Review)

Fascinating report on MIT class project to design software programs for Android (Google) mobile operating system. Upshot? Location, location, location. All but one of the projects involved location-based applications.

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What do you want your cell phone to be able to do?

Massachusetts Industry of Technology professor Hal Abelson put that question to about 20 computer science students this semester when he gave them one assignment: Design a software program for cell phones that use Google Inc.'s upcoming Android mobile operating system.
If the brainstorms of these MIT students are an indication, phones will soon challenge the Internet as a source of innovation.