--> BBC Accessibility links Skip to content Skip to local navigation Skip to bbc.co.uk navigation Skip to bbc.co.uk search Help Accessibility Help Technology Home UK Africa Asia-Pac Europe Latin America Mid-East South Asia US & Canada Business Health Sci/Environment Tech Entertainment Video 9 August 2011 Last updated at 10:46 GMT Share this page Delicious Digg Facebook reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Email Print Mobiles become emergency data network Net links were cut by the government during the early days of protests in Egypt. Continue reading the main story Related Stories Egypt quits net to stifle protest Old tech aids Egyptian protests Remote control crisis management Mobile phones could soon be helping in the aftermath of disasters by becoming an ad-hoc message passing network. Computer scientist Thomas Wilhelm has developed software that lets data hop from phone to phone. Messages sent via the application gradually migrates towards its intended target to keep communication going when other routes are closed.[Read more...]