Chapter 1. Introduction to “Mobility”

This book provides insight into techniques for building mobility into the Internet, so perhaps a good place to start would be with a definition of mobility. As is often the case, you could look to Google to provide some inspiration about the definition of mobility. Having entered Oxford English Dictionary and mobility into the search engine, you might be interested to find that one of PageRank’s highest-priority results is associated, not with the Oxford English Dictionary’s (OED’s) definition of mobility, but with a news report describing the new iPhone application for the OED1.

As you are surely aware, mobility is becoming a truly pervasive quality associated with nearly all advances in Information and ...

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