Our own roving media person, Dr Paul, appeared on the ABC’s New Inventors show, and managed to win the round he was in! Please, vote for us (if so inclined) on the website, or just enjoy the clip:) And congrats to Dr Paul! We here are starting to call him a media darling, but he never […]
Red Symons is an extraordinary man, who became aware of our project*, and conducted an interview with our Dr Paul about the cost of mobile phone technology – and how it doesn’t have to be that way. He has written an extremely witty and clever article about it. ABC The Drum – Calling owners of […]
Image via Wikipedia Our own Dr Paul has been interviews on the ABC‘s Bush Telegraph rogram about how regional and rural communities in Australia could benefit from the technological future offered by Serval – all at an incredibly low cost compared to current technologies… Batphone targets blackspots – 25/08/2010. It would be fantastic if we […]
Dr Paul has just, with some excitement and discovery, I think, upgraded his old basic flip phone to his first smartphone – the Google Nexus One. I, on the other hand, have also, oddly, changed phones. In a sideways leap of faith, one could say. On my personal blog, I have begun an ongoing series on how […]
New project enables mobile phone use in areas with no reception.
At the moment, all of our stock testing equipment has been HTC Dream handsets. With some donations from team members, we have managed to acquire a couple of Google Nexus One phones, which seriously ups our processing power. If anyone knows an ear at Google, or HTC, or where we can acquire cheap unlocked Android handsets, please, let us know! Related […]
There has been some really encouraging coverage, this is definitely one of the best in details : New Cell Network Doesn’t Depend on Towers
The DNA source code is now available under GPLv2 at: http://code.google.com/p/serval-dna/ We are proud about our use of Open Source technology as a backbone to all our endeavours to help people globally in times of need – whether they be temporary, due to disaster, or more permanent issues, due to geographic issues, or socio economic constraints. We […]
The Awesome Foundation, like Flinders University, has been an incredibly enthusiastic supporter of ours since almost day 1 – and they have really helped us progress, in both practical and encouragement terms. They have done a lovely write up of us at their site. They also remind us of a remote presentation our own Dr Paul Gardner-Stephen […]
The first of many to come:)