The Concept Of Mobile & Internet - Wap Mobile Applications Development

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Mobile and internet both are magic sticks of this advanced age of communication and information transfer. Internet is the vast accumulation of knowledge & information and there are millions of internet users spread over the sphere to share and exchange information. Mobiles and other electronic and wireless devices such as PDAs are another miracle for the transmission of information and useful data among users. Wireless application is the mode of bridging up the gap between internet and mobile and other wireless gadgets and popularly they are also known as mobile applications in the mobile world. Using WML (wireless markup language) developers use to create WAP websites which can be accessed via WAP browser.

The WAP browser allow users to avail all the basic services just like computer based web browser, only users compromise with restrictions of mobile set like small view screen. For the Wireless Application Development Developers had started first with the HDML (handheld device markup language), ...
... the second development in this field is use of WML (Wireless markup language) which gained amazing popularity in the wireless world and the third programming language was WMLScript which is client-side scripting language allow wireless application developers to use procedure logic in the WML markup.

As the rising impact of the mobile & internet on the modern masses of the social and business environment in the wireless world there are thousands of companies active for the development of wireless mobile applications to serve their clients. Experts from these companies are involved in producing wireless applications by using their innovative technical expertise such as conversion of HDML documents into WML and Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP) & Java Servlets.

WAP concept gained popularity all over the world after its inception in 1997, until now mobile users are enjoying this concept with regular introduction of standards such as WAP1.0 complete software stack for mobile internet access released in 1998, WAP 1.1 was released in 1999 and WAP 1.2 was released in year 2000. An amazing innovation of “WAP push” as an addition to 1.2 version allows developers to push the WAP content into mobile sets with minimum user intervention.

Presently availability of higher speeds of internet on mobile sets via WAP, mobile users all over the world are getting services such as stock quotes, forecasts, news, horoscopes, etc. large data and information exchange through messaging via services like unified messaging, e-mail, and voicemail. There are several other services like management of personal information such as call management & personal directories, financial services like mobile ecommerce & mobile banking and location based services like vehicle location & mapping.

Hence, WAP has emerged with several opportunities for the modern business world as well as information exchange in social network of people..