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Peer-to-Peer Cellular

Posted by michael on from the RIAA-already-alerted dept.

Phos writes: "A cool article over at the O'Reilly Network outlines a possible solution to cellular network outages in the event of an emergency. A P2P SMS technique where individual handsets act as autonomous SMS relays."

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  1. Re:NEW TERRORIST ATTACK by MouseR · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Mod parent back up. He may be a troll, but a plane DID go down in the black sea. Here's the CNN New Alert excerpt I got in my morning e-mail:
    1. BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com


    2. -- Russian news agency Interfax reports flight from Israel to Russia crashes in Black Sea. Details to come.