PEOPLE using cellphone networks to connect laptop PCs and PDAs to the internet could vastly increase their access speeds if they are willing to share their connections with those of people nearby.
That’s the latest idea to emerge from Hewlett-Packard’s research lab in Palo Alto, California, where software engineers say such “collaborative mobile networking” could allow groups of people to transform a sluggish link via the cellphone network into one capable of downloading large files in a flash.
Many of the latest mobile computing devices such as laptops, PDAs and smartphones are able to handle two different types of wireless…
