THEY say many hands make light work. Now many cellphones make fast Wi-Fi.
If a wireless network is lacking, most cellphones can be “tethered” to a laptop and used as a modem, but connection speed is limited.
So a team of researchers at Microsoft Research India in Bangalore and the University of California, Santa Barbara, has designed a system called Cool-Tether, which allows groups of cellphones with Wi-Fi capabilities to pool their connections and create a high-speed wireless network for nearby computers.
Cool-Tether requires software to be installed on the computer and cellphones used in this way.
The system is…
