Norwegians Speed up Mobile Internet Access
Norwegian company bMenu has launched a mobile portal called bMenu.mobi, which uses its own technology to pare down the navigation of Web sites to just an iPod-like hierarchical menu, it said on Monday. The goal is to speed up downloads and reduce data downloads, according to the company.
The company has spent about three years developing a system called Automatic Menu Generator, which has been patented, according to bMenu CEO Bjørn Holte.
Automatic Menu Generator is a smart crawler that uses artificial learning to find the structure of the menus on the site, according to Holte. It can index a new site in approximately two seconds, and when it is done analyzing the page it produces a new menu file that can be shown on, for example, a mobile phone, he said.
For the user it means that he or she uses between 50 percent and 80 percent less data, and it also speeds up access by a factor of five, according to Holte.
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