MOBILE WEBSERVER

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Look who is diggin the idea and contribute your voice as well!

http://digg.com/software/Run_a_web_server_from_your_phone

Why would I want to have a webserver in a cellphone?

Here is a comment I have been thinking a lot during the past few months.
November 2005 some mobile technology specialists discussed Axalto's USIM webserver.
Here are some examples:

"What th’?
A French company called Axalto has released a “sim card on a server”. The idea is that people will (for example) be able to store the text, images and video of their moblogs on their sim cards rather than uploading it to a remote server.
I’m with Carlo who said: “even if you could put a Web server on your SIM card and publish a site from there, via your phone, why would you want to?”
... Am I missing something?"

If you want, read the whole comment here

So. What is this person missing?

Let us here an other point of view. It comes from C. Enrique Ortiz:

"The concept of web server on a smartcard is not new -- I first encoutered it on 1999 applied to eWallets (see http://www.umich.edu/~urecord/9900/Dec13_99/9.htm).

You can see a running web server on a smart card at http://smarty.citi.umich.edu/

In any case, the concept is actually neat and interesting -- don't look at this just for blogs, but as a way to exchange information using HTTP and RSS/Atom. Addint RSS protocol to the equation is huge because it enables for simplified communications/interoperability for things such as micropayments, synchronizing your PIM/contact information, etc, using open/standard protocols. I have given thought to this exact thing before, and I think it is worth researching further."

I agree with Enrique, but I think that there is still something important missing here. Can you see what?
Any opinion?

SIM CARD WEBSERVER

French SIM card-maker Axalto has come up with an interesting solution for mobloggers: a SIM-based web server. According to the company, its new U2 SIM provides TCP/IP connectivity, allowing users to save blog entries and other info directly to the card, making it accessible via the net whenever the phone is on.
This sure is an interesting idea, and the idea of having a web server you can carry in your pocket certainly has its appeal.
This breakthrough was made possible by an innovative implementation of the web server onto the SIM card which supports large memory as well as the USB (Universal Serial Bus) protocol. The card capacity allows to store large amounts of multimedia content while the TCP-IP protocol enables connectivity between the SIM card and the Internet world.
My company XFETCH has something similar on the R&D pipeline. Stay tuned, I hope we will be able to introduce something soon!

NOKIA+AJAX+USIM + ?

Have you read the mobile ajax news?
The head of Forum Nokia said that NOKIA is actively exploring the role that "Mobile AJAX might possibly play in the future." Well, there is no news here, it is part of her job, of course, to explore the role of new technologies. According to the REGISTER story she was unwilling to provide further details of what Nokia has planned with AJAX, but said: "We are in discussions around strategy and what we support." No kidding! ^_~

So what is here so interesting?
A first interesting comment comes here:
Bill Ray, Industry Analyst with ARC Chart comments:
"AJAX could also provide the ideal platform for content hosted on next generation SIM chips, which operators are already deploying with proprietary platforms."

Here are industry news related to that comment:
"the advantages of using a large capacity SIM card with USB interface, from secure file storage of multimedia content, Internet Protocol backed handset-to-SIM browsing, SIM-based application running, through a high speed USB interface..."

PL-Axalto_press_release_13-2-06.pdf


Now, connect all this with the ideas the NOKIA OS-team is working with and you can clearly see what isLee Epting, Nokia's Vice President for Developer Operations really looking at when exploring the "role of mobile AJAX in NOKIA's strategy".