vMail - Video E-mail
Technology is always changing our lives and shrinking the relative size of the planet. Forbes reports on the BBC's deployment of video cell phones by staff reporters to get that extra edge:
"Typically in TV news we end up talking to people on the phone [on the air] about what they see while we wait for satellite trucks to arrive where the news is breaking," says the BBC's head of newsgathering Adrian Van Klaveren. Thanks to the new camera phones, the BBC has been able to broadcast the first images on several stories.
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The BBC isn't using the camera phones found at your local wireless shop. It has souped-up consumer handsets with picture resolution good enough to broadcast, and over an hour of recorded video, instead of the ten seconds to 15 seconds that's standard for an off-the-shelf phone.
How's that for some Portable Internet?