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Howard Rheingold’s blog (http://www.smartmobs.com/) has many

insightful comments on the development of mobile commu-

nication technologies, pervasive computing, and their social

implications.

G. Abowd and L. Iftode, The smart phone - a first platform for per-

vasive computing, IEEE Pervasive Computing, April-June 2005

(Vol. 4, No. 2). This issues features several papers on a vari-

ety of pervasive computing applications using smart phones,

such as “Social Serendipity: Mobilizing Social Software” by

N. Eagle and A. Pentland, and “ContextPhone: A Prototyping

Platform for Context-Aware Mobile Applications” by M. Raento,

A. Oulasvirta, R. Petit, and H. Toivonen.

Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the Web in early ’90s, talked about ...