Topic: Standards
O'Reilly Network articles about this topic:
Wireless LAN Security: A Short History
(Wireless DevCenter)
Matthew Gast, author of O'Reilly's 802.11: The Definitive Guide, explains the security flaws in 802.11 wireless networks and looks ahead to the remedies.
An Interview with Simon Phipps
(ONJava.com)
Sun Microsystems' chief technology evangelist talks about smart web services, the evolution of standards bodies, and why he wants a Bluetooth headset.
Personal Area Network: A Bluetooth Primer
(Wireless DevCenter)
Bluetooth is emerging as the de facto standard for wireless communication at short range between mobile phones, PDAs, laptops, and other devices and appliances. This short primer explains how and where it works and suggests some of the first applications we might see.
Standards Update: The Voice Browser
(Wireless DevCenter)
Five new markup languages aim to let us speak to the Web and retrieve information from online databases.
Other documents about this topic:
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W* Effect Considered Harmful
In this essay, Rohit Khare (formerly of the W3C and now a computer science grad student at UC Irvine) suggests that alternative wireless protocols, such as WAP, are unnecessary and in fact a play by companies like Phone.com to enforce proprietary ideas.
[Source: IEEE Computer Society]
W3C on Mobile Access
This is the World Wide Web Consortium's home page for mobile access issues, including pointers to documents on the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), Wireless Markup Language (WML) and the Handheld Device Markup Language (HDML).
[Source: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)]
HTML 4.0 Guidelines for Mobile Access
This document describes guidelines for content authors on how to create HTML 4.0 contents, which will be as accessible as possible to mobile devices.
[Source: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)]
