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Outstanding Must Read for Business Execs in Mobile Space, June 5, 2010
This review is from: The Fabric of Mobile Services: Software Paradigms and Business Demands (Information and Communication Technology Series,) (Hardcover)
This is an outstanding, must-read for any business development and marketing professionals in the mobile and media space. It provides an in-depth, comprehensive overview of the Mobile internet infrastructure and application ecosystem. For anyone who is engaged in creating new mobile services over the next few years, this book is an invaluable resource.
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many exciting future services, October 16, 2009
This review is from: The Fabric of Mobile Services: Software Paradigms and Business Demands (Information and Communication Technology Series,) (Hardcover)
In a very readable approach, the authors downplay specialised technical matters. Instead, they speculate about many possible future services for mobile devices, where the latter will typically be cellphones, as these are and are expected to be more prevalent [cheaper!] than laptops or PDAs.
A common idea is that position information about the cellphone will be used by many services. This would often be derived using GPS, possibly aGPS. Related to this is the development of large databases of maps, that show the road grid and businesses at many locations. One example of a service might be to provide directions to the nearest restaurant of a given type.
Augmented reality also makes an appearance; where the phone has GPS, accelerometers and a compass to give location and velocity or orientation. From which a service can deduce if the phone is pointed at some building, say, and then download to the phone data about that building, which is then shown on the phone's display, overlaying an image of the building as seen through the phone's camera.
Peer to peer usages are looked at. Here a phone might make a direct query to a nearby phone, bypassing the phone provider's basestation. Hence a phone is expected to have at least 2 wireless protocols, one for the regular provider and a second that might be WiFi, WiMax, Jini, Bluetooth etc.
The book can be useful not just to computer scientists and engineers, but to business people trying to scope out a future product.
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