Startup aims to bring P2P to the mobile phone

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NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE , SAN FRANCISCO
Tuesday, Mar 02, 2004,Page 12

Rich Miller, a wireless industry consultant at Breo Consulting in Palo Alto

The peer-to-peer world of the Internet is taking a step onto the nation's freeways in a cellphone application that aims to offer up-to-the-second traffic information.

Until now peer-to-peer networks have conjured up file-sharing systems like Napster and Kazaa or social networking organizations like Friendster, Orkut and Linked-in.

But Zipdash, a startup in Palo Alto, California, hopes to take advantage of the growing number of mobile telephones with global positioning satellite receivers to gather the travel speeds of thousands or tens of thousands of drivers, displaying highway conditions as maps on cellphone screens.

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