Mms: Technologies, Usage and Business Models
"MMS will reshape mobile communication, making it more personal, versatile, and expressive than ever before.
Drawing on the authors’ hands-on experience in developing, billing and delivering Multimedia Messaging Services (MMS), this innovative book addresses how MMS will affect existing network and business infrastructures. It demonstrates how the technologies and standards impact current business models of companies across the value chain, be they mobile operators, service providers, content providers, handset manufacturers or equipment vendors.
Read "MMS – Technologies, Usage and Business Models for: An understanding of the standards and technologies that underpin the delivery of services – both at the application and network layersAn overview of the different players, their contribution to the value chain and the challenges they faceAn insight into the fundamental changes to mail and billing systems for MMSGuidance on regulatory requirementsInformation on the technologies that ensure user uptake (such as security, location information, personalisation and context awareness)A review of interoperability issues and usage scenarios
"… this is not about putting a technology into a pocket, but about delivering a service to customers while mobile.
Fast Families, Virtual Children
The Internet, cell phones, and other technologies have changed the ways in which people conduct their family lives, raise children, and navigate the blurry boundary between work and home. Private life is colonized by employers, teachers, corporations; family time is taken up by work, homework, and shopping. What it means to be parents and children has changed dramatically.
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Programming the .Net Compact Framework
- Microsoft's support for developing applications for mobile devices is greatly expanded with the release of Visual Studio .NET 2003
- Mobile devices and wireless connectivity is expected to soar in 2003
- Terrific cross-selling opportunities with other .
Programming the .Net Compact Framework
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