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News Item Dated:
20 August 2002
From:
Wireless Newsfactor
(08/20/02); Lyman, Jay
Until recently, viewing Web pages on mobile devices such as phones and PDAs was
not an enjoyable task. But more capable devices, emerging standards, and 2.5G
networks have made the wireless Web more appealing for both users and Web
content providers.
Gartner vice president Ken Dulaney says
that the wireless Web is becoming a more standard part of Web architecture in
many enterprises, which is helping make viewing Web pages on mobile phones, for
example, less troublesome.
AvantGo is one
company focusing solely on tailoring sites for viewing on mobile devices. Using
HTML and Javascript, AvantGo is also helping companies figure out how to create
pages that can be cached on a phone's internal memory, as well as customizing
bitmap images that do not need resizing.
Air2Web focuses more on making
Web pages viewable on the broadest number of mobile device screens as possible.
Air2Web wireless architect Mike Starr says his company's technology allows for
flexible wireless Web pages that are correctly displayed on a number of mobile
devices.
Interested? For further reading, check out this link:
http://wirelessnewsfactor.com/perl/story/19081.html
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