Last week, we talked about setting up your wireless network and the options that are available. For the home, home-office, or small office, wireless is a great alternative which offers a lot of benefits and flexibility.
Extend J2ME to Wireless Messaging
The notion of wireless messaging provides a whole new vista to J2ME. J2ME applications powered by wireless messaging have a platform-independent access to wireless communication resources like Short Message Service (SMS) and Cell Broadcast Service (CBS) for Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) Networks, a mobile telephony system permitting inter-country communication.
Before proceeding with the details on how J2ME Wireless Messaging works, I will discuss, in short, the SMS and CBS messaging systems in a GSM Network.
How to Develop a Wireless Advertising Campaign
What’s a wireless advertising plan? Why should you consider wireless advertising? How can you put together a wireless advertising plan? This article addresses why and how to plan and implement an effective wireless ad campaign.
1. Determine your wireless advertising objectives
The number of people who use wireless devices (cell phones, pagers and PDAs) is growing throughout the world. Wireless advertising can allow your company to deliver a variety of different messages to this rocketing population of handheld users.
Wireless advertising is relatively new: the results on the kind of content that will be most effective for wireless advertising is not conclusive. However, content sponsorship, opt-in coupons and directories will likely be the most successful of the various wireless ad methods.
Weaving the Wireless Web
The wireless Internet is taking off. New ISPs as well as existing ISPs are scrambling to provide service to this growing new market. Yet in this service boom, many of these companies are testing the wireless waters for the first time. These pioneers are discovering that the trail to wireless Web success is rocky and fraught with peril. Web designers are finding themselves caught in the middle, trying to serve a vast new market of devices.
Hom RF a Better Wireless Solution?
Wireless networks are growing at an exponential rate. It’s no wonder they’re so popular – there are no wires to trip over, there’s no need to drill holes in walls, and the hardware is cheap enough for home users to afford easily.
Wireless Insecurities
Wireless networks are catching on at an alarming rate. While they solve many problems that can’t be solved with traditional wired LAN (local area network) technology, at the same time wireless LANs (WLANs) raise many troubling security issues.
Point & Shoot: The Future of Wireless Payment Technologies
We are entering a new era of payment technologies that could have you reaching for your mobile phone instead of your wallet at the checkout counter. The Mobile electronic Wallet (MeW) application will enable your mobile phone, PDA, Smartphone (combination PDA and mobile phone) to store and use financial tools (i.e. electronic credit cards, cash, checks, and receipts) at the point of sale, or Local Transactions (LTs). To initiate an electronic payment you simply press a button on your mobile device. Within seconds your transaction is completed and an electronic receipt is stored within your device.
The Wireless Enterprise – Are You Ready?
Building a wireless infrastructure today requires future-proofing and flexible standards. With all of the hype surrounding the wireless Internet and its promises of anytime, anywhere information availability, businesses are beginning to exploit the potential of this great medium.
Wireless LAN
To bring those of you up to date on how WLAN technology works, let me give a brief overview. The version of WLAN that I am referring to is radio wave based and defined by IEEE 802.11b.
Wireless Markup Language 101
If you missed the previous article that led to this one, you can find it here: http://www.devwebpro.com/2001/0720.html
Below are some of the mechanics of the language: