Rischpater's second edition has new coverage of HTML, WAP 2.0, XML, Palm's WCA and iMode in detail and improves the text of the first edition with time-tested information.

The first guide to developing user location applications You are walking down a street and suddenly, your cell phone display flashes the news that you are 70 feet from a Starbuck's and that you are entitled to a dollar off your next purchase. You have just witnessed an example of user location services, one of the exciting new generations of cell phone and handheld services. This book describes the architecture and operation of this technology. It also familiarizes readers with the new location services development standard, shows how to programming with GIS, provides GUI design guidelines, and uses real-world examples to teach valuable lessons on how to successfully develop and deploy user location applications for the wireless Web. CD-ROM contains a host of tools for developing positioning and location services.

As web accessibility through wireless devices becomes increasingly popular, developers are challenged to maintain the high level of interactivity and flexibility that users are accustomed to on their PCs. Fortunately, the language tools used to create conventional web pages can also be implemented in the wireless arena. Rischpater's Wireless Web Development with PHP and WAP is a comprehensive guide to doing exactly this. It illustrates how one of the web's most popular scripting languages, PHP, can be used alongside the wireless web's standard languages, namely WML and WMLScript, to create truly dynamic and powerful wireless applications.

Microsoft's .NET strategy embraces a vision for integrating diverse elements of computing technology and data services. The wireless Internet and mobile devices are core components of that strategy. Visual Studio .NET includes a powerful set of toolsthe Mobile Internet Toolkitfor developing websites and applications that can be accessed from all kinds of mobile devices .NET Wireless Programming provides the technical details you need to master to develop end-to-end wireless solutions based on .NET technology. You'll learn to take advantage of the Mobile Internet Toolkit's automated deployment capabilities, which enable a single site or application to work with nearly any mobile device. Freed from the task of writing code to accommodate various devices, you'll be able to apply other skills to build a more powerful application: Work with styles and templates. Create custom controls. Read from and write to databases. And use Microsoft's Web Services in support of a distributed architecture. Five case studies, including a mobile intranet, a contacts database, and an online game, illustrate solutions to real problems and techniques for maximizing application flexibility. A set of appendices provide detailed information on the WML language and the Toolkit's classes. This book presents its many code examples in Visual Basic .NET, but the greater emphasis is on Visual Studio .NET and the flexibility it gives developers in choosing the language they want to use.

This book provides a comprehensive explanation of the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) so that developers can achieve mastery in the creation of wireless applications/services. This book is vendor, programming language, and carrier and service operator agnostic. It discusses principles of wireless application design and best practices in the development of WAP services. Emerging WAP technologies such as location-based services, XML push technology, end-to-end security and XHTML are also discussed. The book also contains a complete description of wireless handhelds, competing WAP gateways and the inter-operability concerns for developing in worldwide markets.

Wireless application development is a dynamic and ever-changing field. In this book, readers will learn about the latest components available to develop wireless applications. This is an introductory book, intended for students who are familiar with the Internet but who do not have prior programming experience. Students will explore programming languages, tools, technologies, and devices that enable wireless Internet access. By the end of the book, readers will have learned how to set up a Tomcat Apache Web Server capable of launching wireless applications developed with WAP (Wireless Application Protocol), WML (Wireless Markup Language), WMLScript, and XHTML.