Where we could have helped

Blackouts continue as SA clears storm damage – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). There is a distressing amount of articles that show how much a Serval Batphone system could have helped. Even the Monarto Zoo, mentioned in the final paragraphs, could benefit from our setup. There is also the New Zealand earthquake scenario, in Christchurch. […]

Thanks to everyone

A quick thank you so much to everyone who has contacted us in the last few days. As Dr Paul is leaving to go on holiday to a super secret destination, I will be running things for a few weeks. I am also presenting at the Telstra Innovation Challenge on Tuesday. With all of that, […]

A little rain must fall

It is absolutely bucketing down here in Adelaide, with windy, stormy, and sort of wonderfully wild weather. I believe Victoria is experiencing similar conditions. This means we have had intermittent blackouts – today’s lasting all afternoon and into the dark evening. Ok, Romana, great, what has that to do with Serval? Quite a lot, actually. […]

Calling owners of quite extraordinary mobile phones

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 […]

Batphone targets blackspots

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 on Serval Batphone and travelling…

I am sitting in Changi Airport, Singapore, on my way to the International Summit for Community Wireless Networks, and I have had one of those aha moments about how Serval can help people communicate. You see, I have just finished talking to my wife by telephone, having called our home number as though I were still at home […]

Google Nexus One is changing the way we use our phones here at the project!

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 phone in arsenal!

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 […]