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WAP & WML

Notes 5. Explain why the support of pushes on the client side depends on the capabilities of the
handsets to handle pushed content.
6. The WAP will allow customers to easily reply to incoming information on the phone by
allowing new menus to access mobile services. Discuss.
7. Banks offering services over WAP include Deutsche Bank and Visa International. Explain.
8. The SMS is ideal for sending GPS information such as longitude, latitude, bearing and
altitude. Give reasons.
9. PhonEMail enables you to read your email from a handheld Web-browser, like a cell
phone. Explain.
10. WapReader supports base64 and quoted-printable mail encodings and all charsets
supported by iconv(). Explain with reasons.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. network protocols 2. less memory

3. WWW 4. push operation
5. “endpoint” 6. MMI (Man Machine Interface)
7. mobile banking 8. Unified messaging

9. Affinity 10. Factual
11. PHP application 12. SB Timmy
13. WapReader 14. Web-based gateway
15. WAP 1.1 protocol

10.6 Further Readings

Books Demon Hougland, Essential WAP for Professional, 2001, Prentice Hall PTR.

Jennifer Niederst Robbins, Web Design in a Nutshell, 2006, O’Reilly.
Jon Orwant, Web Graphics & Perl/TK: Best of the Perl Journal 2003 O’ Reilly.
Paul Wallace Andrea Hoffmann, Mika Tuppola, I – Mode Developer Guide, 2002.

Books http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol
http://www.sitepoint.com/markup-language-introduction/

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