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WebTV: PrimeTime for Developers
Documentation on writing web pages for viewing on WebTV. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader to view many files.
ARTICLES
Africa's Wireless Solution
Analysts expect the number of cellular phone subscribers in Africa to top 5.5 million in 2000. Local and foreign corporations are scrambling to provide connectivity to the burgeoning market. (1/10/2000 at Wired News)
Cell-ebration at SXSW
PacketVideo is developing technology which they say will turn cell phones into 2-way video phones, capable of downloading multimedia content from the Internet. (3/14/2000 at Wired News)
Cingular Launches Wireless Small-Payment Service
Cingular Wireless is unveiling Cingular DirectBill, a program in which customers can buy goods through their wireless phones and be billed for their purchases on their monthly phone bill. (6/4/2001 at MSNBC)
The Constraints of the Wireless Web
Wireless access will develop differently from the rest of the Internet because the ability of amateurs to produce content and users to find what they want will be controlled by the large patent-wielding companies. (2/3/2000 at Feed)
Designing for Net Devices
An overview of developing your web site to work well with WebTV. Includes information on detecting WebTV, and dealing with WebTV's resolution and javascript problems. (11/22/1999 at WDVL)
Designing Web Sites for PDAs
Basic information on designing web pages for viewing on PDAs. No code examples, but just a general overview. (5/12/1999 at WebMonkey)
Digital Slide Shows on Your Palm
Using AlbumToGo to transfer jpeg images to your Palm Pilot or Handspring Visor. (9/8/2000 at O'Reilly Network)
E Ink: Your Hands Will Thank You
An update on electronic ink: E Ink and Philips Components plan to work together to develop electronic ink displays for PDAs and ebooks. (3/1/2001 at Wired News)
Finland: Where the Wireless Are
As the rest of the world waits for standardization of WAP (Wireless Access Protocol), companies in Finland are already developing advanced wireless services. (1/7/2000 at The Industry Standard)
Flexible Displays for Electronic Ink
Scientists working with electronic ink have come up with a flexible display system; it can bend with without breaking, and continue to accept electronic signals telling it what words or patterns to display. (11/30/2000 at The New York Times)
Geoworks Soars on Wireless Licensing Plans
Geoworks, declaring that it owns patents on technology underpinning WAP (the Wireless Access Protocol), has decided to start charging companies royalties for using WAP; as a result, its stock jumped more than 110 percent in one day. (1/19/2000 at News.com)
Getting Your Site Ready for WebTV
A look at the WebTV platform, and the problems developers will face in creating sites that work well with it. (10/6/1998 at WebMonkey)
Hold the Phone
An interview with Robert Tercek, president of Packet Video networks, exploring how wireless mobile devices - and video on such devices - will change the world. (12/20/1999 at Salon.com)
Introduction to Wireless Access Protocol
A brief, non-technical look at WAP - the Wireless Access Protocol. (2/18/2000 at DevShed)
Is That An Ad in Your Pocket
Advertisers expect to send coupons and advertisements through PDAs and cell phones to consumers who opt-in to marketing. (2/7/2000 at internet.com)
Linux Internet Kiosks
A security-focused article on setting up public Internet access terminals using Linux. (12/13/2000 at SecurityFocus)
Make Your Web Site a TV Star
How to design web pages for WebTV users - with hints on resolution and layout, colors and graphics, and extra interactive features. (10/12/1999 at builder.com)
The Many Paths to Mobile Net Access
At a conference on The Future of Pervasive Computing, technologists debated how pervasive Web applications could become on the tiny-screened mobile devices people carry around these days. (12/10/1999 at PC World)
Piloting Your Palm With Linux
Information on coordinating information and communication between Palm Pilots and Linux machines. (3/17/2000 at Web Review)
Quartz: The Palm-killing PDA?
The Symbian consortium's Quartz device, which includes cell-phone capabilities, streaming multimedia, and Palm-like abilities, will most likely be given away to consumers, as part of cell-phone contracts. (2/24/2000 at ZDNet)
Service Providers' Profit Motives Rule Content at Wireless Customers' Expense
An examination of how (and why) wireless phone service providers control what their customers see. (7/28/2000 at InfoWorld)
Speak Up, Will Ya?
Reviews of three phone-based information portals - Tellme, BeVocal, and Audiopoint. (7/31/2000 at Time Magazine Online)
Survival of the Fittest Jini Services, Part 1
How the recording of increasingly large amounts of information, and software-to-software interaction, will eliminate lackluster software services and increase survival of useful components. (4/13/2001 at Java World)
Video Calls on Your Cell Phone by '02
Ericsson Australia plans to roll out Wideband CDMA in 2002 (18 months before the U.S. will get it), over which people will have access to video, MP3 files and other high-bandwidth content. (8/30/2000 at 15 Seconds)
WAP or I-Mode: Which Is Better?
Developers are divided on whether WAP or i-mode will triumph. WAP has the support of 500 major companies, and is used on many mobile phones already; while i-mode downloads faster and works with more sites. (8/30/2000 at Wired News)
The WAP Vision
A look at the future of web access, especially in terms of providing access to both mobile device users and the disabled. The same types of solutions - XML, alternative content streams - will probably serve both sets of users. (2/11/2000 at Web Review)
The Web Phone Evangelist
Yasumitsu Shigeta, president of Japan's hottest wireless phone vendor, is forging an empire out of wireless Net connectivity. (12/13/1999 at Forbes)
Webheads, Lend Me Your Ears
Tellme Networks Inc. plans to bring Internet data to people by telephone. Not by telephones with text screens; but by voice - users talk, and the service responds, out loud. (12/20/1999 at Business Week)
Wireless Web Fight Gets Catty
There was obvious conflict between World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) technologists and phone.com/WAP Forum representatives about the future direction of wireless web access and display. (5/17/2000 at Wired News)
Wireless Web Privacy Hole Still Wide Open
5 months after mobile phone Web surfers discovered that some service providers were sending their phone numbers to Web sites they visited, the providers still haven't fixed the problem. (8/17/2000 at News.com)
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