Information processing by computer Systems and data communications have become an everyday feature of offices in recent years, increasing the efficiency of office work. The dream of using such an environment outside the office has now becomepossible through the progress of wireless communications. First, wireless telephone systems and their compact telephones are providing this environment regardless of the location or the means of data communications, followed by the development of variouscommunication terminals and systems, then realization of the stage of practical use. Multimedia communications containing a video stream will also become possible through wireless communications. This is referred to as "multimedia mobile computing."This paper provides an outline of multimedia mobile computing, and describes Toshiba's efforts in this field.
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