i-mode Crash Course (Paperback)

~ John R. Vacca (Conductor) "The teenage girls sit in cafes or postures on the corners of Tokyo's hip Shibuya district, dressed in short skirts and armed with fluorescent phones..." (more)
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Product Description

Insider details on the world's most successful wireless Internet application

The wireless Internet service that dominates the Japanese market is coming to the United States and Europe. i-mode Crash Course helps you prepare, whether your interest is technical or financial…whether you're offering the killer app or competing against it…even if you're simply a consumer who wants to get on top of the latest technology. Author John Vacca's big-picture focus includes installation, deployment and configuration. He provides the insights you need to analyze markets, predict results, and influence outcomes. Learn:

• How i-mode connects cell phones and other handhelds to the Internet for instant messaging, email, online shopping, real-time news, stocks, weather reports, and more
• Why i-mode beat out WAP
• Development secrets behind i-mode applications and the advantages of cHTML
• The Japanese market strategy and plans to take America and Europe this year

From the Back Cover

i-mode CRASH COURSE

i-mode IS COMING

The wireless Internet service that dominates the Japanese market--mushrooming from 3 to 17 million users in a single year--is coming to the United States and Europe. i-mode Crash Course helps you prepare, whether your interest is technical or financial--whether you're offering the killer app or competing against it--even if you're simply a consumer who wants to get on top of the latest technology.

i-mode Crash Course gives you insider details on the most successful wireless Internet application in the world.

Get the big picture on i-mode, the wireless Internet service that took Japan by storm, now targeting the US and Europe Technologies, requirements, and markets
Understand installation, deployment and configuration The international i-mode spectrum i-mode security,
Up-and-coming applications and market directions
Make the right career and corporate decisions

i-mode:

UNQUALIFIED WIRELESS INTERNET SUCCESS

Learn how i-mode connects cell phones and other handhelds to the Internet for instant messaging to friends, email, online shopping, and real-time news, stocks, weather reports, and more
See why i-mode beat out WAP
Discover development secrets behind i-mode applications and the advantages of cHTML
Understand NTT DoCoMo's market strategy in Japan and its plans to take America and Europe--this year
Gain insights to help you analyze markets, predict results, and influence outcomes

GET READY FOR i-mode

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Product Details

• Paperback: 350 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing; 1st edition (October 25, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071381872
• ISBN-13: 978-0071381871
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,756,649 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Average book, December 14, 2003

By	Carlo R. Montoya "Toy photographer" (Cebu City, Cebu Philippines) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I got this book as a present and I'm thankful that I didn't buy it for myself.

I would have given this book 4 stars but I just couldn't. Why?

Well, for one thing, the author repeats himself not just twice but multiple
times. How many times must he remind his readers that i-Mode allows
its users to send and receive e-mail, that i-Mode contents are transported
via a packet switched network, that cHTML stands for compact HTML and
that it's a subset of HTML? There are also numerous spelling errors giving
the impression that either the editor was too lazy, clumsy or inexperienced.

I also get the feeling that this book were written with time gaps or were patched
from different sources from differing years. There's a chapter that says i-Mode
is only available in black and white phones and then later on says it's already
available in colored phones. The same goes for Java or i-appli support. It is
as if he wrote one chapter in 2000, then took a long vacation or gathered
more magazines, clipped i-Mode articles, the wrote other chapters in 2001.

I'm not saying the book is utterly worthless but it just can't seem to decide whether
it wants to be a technical book or a business book. It would have been better for
the author to split the book two ways.

I suggest you scan a copy, read a chapter or two and you'll see what I mean.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars comprehensive i-mode course, February 4, 2003

By	L. E. Smith (Georgetown, TX United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

An excellent 'crash course' in i-mode. After taking Japan by storm, i-mode no doubt is the coming mobile technology in the US. This book is a well-organized walk through that technology from fundamentals through the future outlook.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars [i-mode Crash Course], September 17, 2002

By	Rodney Van Meter III (Half Moon Bay, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This just might be the worst technical book I own. There is some useful material in it, but it is so poorly written that t's hard to tell. There are non-sentences, some sentences that are impossible to understand even after re-reading, non-sequitirs, and more typos than I have seen in any other book. The text repeatedly says things like, "At present (as of this writing)", without telling you when that is -- and the data given will be at odds with data just a few pages away, which begins with the same disclaimer. The text is also highly repetitive -- how many times do I have to be told that cHTML is just like HTML? The material on WAP is internally inconsistent, and, from what I can tell, outright wrong in places. Many of the pictures appear to be low-resolution images.... I feel the publisher should have had someone redraw pie charts so that the fonts are legible. ... There must be a better one on the topic.