Monday, October 8, 2007

Mobile Phone Memory Doubled Through Software

Mobile phones are increasingly becoming innovative & cosmopolitan -- sporting such features as cameras, music players, games, video clips, Internet access etc - but these features come at a price: memory.

The other day I was reading stories on latest developments in technology. When I came across this story featured in Science Daily. According to it computer engineers at Northwestern University and NEC Laboratories America, Inc. have done what many thought impossible -- they have developed technology that doubles the usable memory on cell phones and other embedded systems without any changes to hardware or applications. (Embedded systems are computers within devices not generally considered to be computers, such as cell phones, cars, iPods, medical devices and digital cameras.) The improvement was made in the operating system software alone. More....

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Keep up the good work.