Two applications that make it possible to store an
entire national telephone directory on a mobile phone were launched
at theGSMA
Mobile World Congressthis week.
Swedish software house Oricane showed a
contact database
that can store 200 million names and numbers on a mobile phone, and
a caller ID application that translates an incoming phone number
into a name, enabling the user to always see who is calling.
The applications are built on Oricane's patented technology for
compressing, storing and searching information in mobile phones and
other small devices.
The performance of the mobile applications is as good or better
than an equivalent application on a PC, said Fredrik Kallioniemi,
Oricane's chief marketing officer.
He said Oricane specialises in green software technology that
will make the internet more environmentally friendly. "Internet
today uses more than 5% of the total electric power production in
the world and has a yearly growth of 50% to 60%," he said.
Oricane's technology is based on patented energy-saving
algorithms that make data storage and retrieval as well as decision
processes like packet classification and packet forwarding more
efficient.
Oricane's flagship product,
BioCAM,
solves addressing scalability issues in the Internet core that make
it 75% to 95% more energy-efficient, he said. The mobile edition
doubles as an energy saving firewall, he said.
BioDEX
is a generic, self-learning search engine for applications that
include directory services, datacentres, web indexing, and digital
communities, he said.