With the internet, that experimentation can be shared and dissected across a huge ad hoc network of educators.

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By creating an ad hoc network, the XDJ-AERO can sync with up to four Wi-Fi enabled devices at once, without the need for any extra equipment.

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The idea was to knit together an ad-hoc network of small, low-powered cells femtocells which would be connected to a telecoms network.

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Network Computing gave the KR1 a try, and found it to be an easy, reliable way to create a quick-and-dirty ad-hoc network.

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Once set up, however, and it works like an absolute dream -- just pair your device to its ad-hoc WiFi network (which kicks in once you've taken your first picture) and images are pushed over in a staggeringly short amount of time.

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The answer is social computing, which views a company not as a static org chart and a number of interconnected process flows but rather as a social network with ad-hoc and ever changing relationships and interactions.

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They rely on ad hoc, people-driven processes to discover assets on the network.

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