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Mobile

Term often used to describe an NPC. A mobile is an autonomous creature within a world. Mobiles are the monsters, and townsfolk that populate the world, yet are not player controlled.

A bot controlled player might technically be a mobile.

See also: Mob

Below, we offer a selection of links from our resource databases which may match this term.



Related Dictionary Entries for Mobile:

Approximeeting

BAN

Body Area Network

Context Aware Service

Differential GPS

General Packet Radio Service

GPRS

Location Based Service

M-Commerce

mHealth

MMMPG

Mob

Mobile

Mobot

New Bedouins

Room

Sexting

Technological Bedouins

Technological Nomad

Thought Transfer









 

Resources in our database matching the Term Mobile:

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Dealing With A Fragmented Java Landscape For Mobile Game Development
The J2ME java codebase isn't as great a fix as was thought. Each mobile phone system uses its own interpretation, with a wide difference in specification in-between. This short resource looks at the experiences of one development company, and how they overcame the hurdles laid out for them.



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Japanese Telecomm Predicts Fully Immersive Mainstream VR by 2020
With the expansion rate of Japan's wireless networks in terms of both bandwidth and decreasing cost, coupled with the rate of development of mobile phones into computing platforms in their own right, NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile phone carrier service believe that this estimate is about right.



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An Introduction to Developing for Mobile Devices Using J2ME/MIDP (Part 1)
The first of a two-part introduction to mobile game development via J2ME and MIDP - two anacronyms you'll get to know by heart. Good, thorough, and includes a lot of source code.



Linked resource
Mobile AI
A basic, yet very good outline for a needs-specific NPC that responds to the environment around them. An excellent base from which to design your own system.



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A Wheelchair With Ears and Brain
At MIT, researchers are working on an artificially intelligent electric wheelchair, designed to aid the least mobile individuals with navigation.



Linked resource
$250,000 Ambulance
Better help is on the way for the 30-odd million people who call on EMS every year. Shrinking electronics, wireless proliferation and ?smart? materials from the likes of NASA are set to transform the ambulance into a virtually mobile emergency room.



    
The development centre for J2ME, one of the latest, and brightest of Mobile Phone development systems.



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The Tech Lab: Lesley Gavin
BT futurologist Lesley Gavin looks ahead to a time when real and virtual worlds mix as easily as making a mobile phone call.



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Wi-fi? Why worry?
In the wake of an increasing number of scare stories about the use of Wi-Fi, claiming they alter the brain, and should be banned from schools and public areas, this article from the BBC looks at the actual science - which shows them as safe - a thousand computer wi-fi network puts out less than a single mobile phone.



One of the first mobile clinical assistants to hit the market, was the Philips MCA in 2006. Created as a partnership between Philips and Intel, this relatively primitive wireless data input unit, was designed to be held in one hand, and interacted with by a stylus in the other.





 

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(29/01/2007)
According to the Mobile Data Association, mobile phone users in the UK accessed the internet via their handsets about 15.9 million times throughout December 2006. This is a massive increase over one million unique sessions over November 200...


(27/11/2008)
In the UK, mobile internet use is growing while the number of people going online via a PC is slowing, analyst firm Nielsen Online has found.

Some 7.3m people accessed the net via their mobile phones, during the second and th...


(12/11/2011)
Africa is the fastest-growing mobile market in the world, and is the biggest after Asia, an association of worldwide mobile phone operators has said. The number of subscribers on the continent has grown almost 20% each year for the past fiv...


(10/03/2009)
A worm targeting Symbian mobile phones shows mobile botnets may be here soon, says the latest threat report by security firm Fortinet. Sexy View can spread through malicious links in text messages, creating a bridge between mobile phones an...


(05/10/2009)
Researchers predict that more than one billion people around the world will be using mobile broadband by 2012. However some European mobile operators claim that current levels of use are already crippling their networks.

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