Wireless PC-Based Services (Essential Series for Web Professionals) [Paperback]

Scott Lewis (Author)

Book Description

Series: Essential Series for Web Professionals | Publication Date: March 15, 2001

Wireless PC-Based Services is the complete briefing on Wireless Web technologies for every technical professional. IBM architect and leading wireless developer R. Scott Lewis covers every aspect of deploying wireless Internet services, from business plans through software development. Few current wireless books offer comparable breadth and depth. Wireless PC-Based Services covers the design, construction, and programming of systems to support a wide range of wireless Internet services. R. Scott Lewis presents an excellent overview of key protocols and technologies, including WAP, XML, LDAP, IMAP, SMTP, and SNMP; and covers all phases of wireless system deployment. He reviews programmatic interfaces between PCs and a wide range of wireless systems, from analog cellular to 3G, PCS to internodal wireless messaging. Lewis' forward-looking view of wireless Internet services even incorporates advanced topics such as text-to-speech and audio compression. For entrepreneurs, decision-makers, consultants, integrators, developers, investors, marketers, and other technology-savvy professionals interested in with wireless PC-based services.

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Scott clearly takes his place as a leading developer in the wireless space. -- Rajnish Prasad, Senior I/T Achitect at IBM

From the Back Cover

• Developing wireless Web applications: a complete guide for technical decision-makers
• Wireless networks, standards, applications, programming, and business planning
• Defining architectures, building development teams, choosing tools, and more
• Security, fault tolerance, directories, and other key issues
• Endorsed by leading wireless implementers at IBM, Motorola, and Roche

The up-to-the-minute Wireless Web briefing for every technical professional.

Wireless PC-Based Services is a complete briefing on Wireless Web technologies for every entrepreneur, decision-maker, and technical professional. IBM architect and leading wireless developer R. Scott Lewis covers every aspect of deploying wireless Internet services, from business plans through application design, standards through development tools.

Lewis presents in-depth coverage of state-of-the-art applications such as unified wireless inboxes, S.100-based wireless call processing, wireless message storage, wireless metering services, and wireless network management. The book also includes state-of-the-art coverage of wireless media conversion applications: language translation, text-to-audio, OCR, and handwriting-to-text. Coverage includes:

• Wireless Web services: consumer, producer, and enterprise perspectives
• Making sense of today's multiple wireless standards: analog to 3G, WAP to LDAP, SS7 to digital TV
• Developing wireless services: building a team -- and an organization
• Vendor-neutral frameworks and architectures for advanced wireless services
• Comparing languages and class libraries for wireless development
• Ensuring security and fault tolerance in wireless applications
• Distributed batch processing, queuing, and other techniques for maximizing application performance
• The role of directory services in wireless applications
• Internet, Global Positioning Systems, paging, and messaging technologies

If you're responsible for next-generation wireless Internet services, this book will increase your effectiveness — and reduce your risks — at every stage of the project lifecycle.

"Mr. Lewis' book is always the first wireless book that I pick up when I need a thorough treatment of all phases of wireless systems." —Rajnish Prasad, Senior IT Architect, IBM

"With these brilliant descriptions of possible service available to the wireless industry, Scott clearly takes his place as a leading developer in the wireless space." Nathalie Plaziac, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Motorola

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Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 1st edition (March 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130416649
• ISBN-13: 978-0130416643
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.9 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,585,207 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommend!, October 30, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Wireless PC-Based Services (Essential Series for Web Professionals) (Paperback)

Highly recommend for anyone trying to untangle the multifaceted topic of wireless data solutions.

An extremely well written and well organized book on a complex subject. Provided a straightforward and detailed overview of the various technologies required for wireless data implementation.

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of money, October 6, 2002

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This review is from: Wireless PC-Based Services : How to Design, Build, and Program Systems Using the Latest Internet Standards and Organizational Techniques (Paperback)

I bought this book because of the plethora of endorsements reprinted inside the book. I was stunned at how superficial the content is. The most generous comment that I can make is that the breadth of this book exceeds its depth by several orders of magnitude. For example, it attempts to cover about 40 wireless protocols in 80 pages, wireless security in 10, and queuing theory in 12!!!