Submission + - Virtual sticky notes make cell phones more useful (networkworld.com)
BobB-nw writes: Engineers at Duke University have come up with a system for one day exploiting cell phones worldwide so that mobile users can easily learn from each other about everything from art exhibits to traffic jams. "Every mobile phone can act as a telescope lens providing real-time information about its environment to any of the 3 billion mobile phones worldwide," said Romit Roy Choudhury, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering in Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, in a statement. The engineers have created an application that they call micro-blogging that enables cell phone users to enter site-specific information ("virtual sticky notes"), such as comments or photos or videos to a central server that other cell phone users can tap. Time and location can be logged as well, and attached to the other information.