IEEE PERVASIVE COMPUTING: NEWS
Thin Clients Get Second Chance in Emerging Markets
Jan Krikke
The thin client remains a niche market. Some industry insiders, however, believe thin clients will still have a major impact on emerging markets, especially in developing areas such as India and China.
IEEE PERVASIVE COMPUTING: WEARABLE COMPUTING
Mobile Phones as Computing Devices:
The Viruses are Coming!
David Dagon, Tom Martin, and Thad Starner
Mobile phones have become powerful and sophisticated computing devices and are now also at risk for a new class of malware, including viruses, worms, and trojans specifically designed for a mobile environment.
DISTRIBUTED WISDOM
On Distributed Systems and Social Engineering
Steven Willmott
Distributed applications are increasingly going global and crossing organization boundaries, raising serious questions about how to manage the responsibilities of individual components and the organizations that own them.
NEWS
What’s Next in Web Search?
Laurianne McLaughlin
Take a peek at future plans for search engines such as Ask Jeeves and Google, and you’ll see a vision for Web search’s future that’s more sophisticated, individual, and portable.
IN BRIEF
Utilities Look to the Skies for Monitoring the Power Grid
Bernard Cole
Early next year, power utilities across the United States could be looking to the skies to help them collect meter information about electricity use. They’ll use satellites to acquire data on a near real-time basis so they can provide users with accurate usage data and model and predict power grid status more accurately.
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