The Ubiquitous Office:A Nomadic Search and Access Solution (PDF 524 KB)
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There is an unprecedented amount of information available at our fingertips when we are at our desks. However, typical employees spend less time at their desks than ever before. In this article, we present our vision of the Ubiquitous Office, which offers mobile workers nomadic access to the key information and services that they need. By nomadic, we mean that they can travel light, taking nothing more than their mobile phone with them, and are still able to use network-connected peripherals around them. We have developed a prototype mobile solution including printers and mobile phones that tackles two important technical issues for the Ubiquitous Office: ergonomic search and browsing of documents on small appliances and secure transmission of documents to nearby peripherals.

Interesting number

IDC predicts that 66% of US workers (105 million) will be mobile by the end of 2006. In Europe, 100 million workers will be mobile by the end of 2007 [2].

Via Technical Journal No. 21 (August 2004)

BuddyBuzz is a mobile phone application that does two things:

1. BuddyBuzz helps you find the most interesting articles to read.
2. BuddyBuzz allows you to read 300 to 800 words per minute from your mobile phone.

Created by the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, BuddyBuzz combines the power of a reading club (people who rate content) with the convenience of mobility (you read text from the screen of your mobile phone).

Instructions

Via Many2Many and Textually