| | | | ARTech is currently in the process of researching the design/development of applications for mobile platforms, which will allow wireless access to the Internet. The cellular phones that use WAP technology, the pocket computers and the personal assistants. |
ARTech is studying the possibility of making applications for mobile platforms that allow wireless access to the Internet. The cellular phones that use the WAP technology, the pocket computers and the personal assistants (PDAs) that operate with Windows CE and the Palm operative system, are the devices that position as wireless platforms in the near future. ARTech’s team is investigating the WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) technology and Windows CE in order to evaluate a possible development for these platforms.
An 80% of the 1.234 million of mobile phones that are projected to be in use worldwide in the year 2004 will be able to access the Internet, according to the Spanish group Telefónica. WAP is the technology that currently allows cellular users to access different services via the Internet from the telephone’s screen. As a matter of fact, this technology is being used, quite successfully, in Europe and Japan.
WAP uses a communication protocol IP (Internet Protocol) optimized for wireless connections, in addition to a script language called Wireless Markup Language (WML) for making applications, equivalent to Java Script in HTML.
WAP on the Internet, also referred to as a ‘gateway’, is the entrance or ‘door’, to WAP services in the net that operate as protocol translators for the wireless service (IP) to TCP/IP. In order to start running these services, users need a third generation phone, an application developed specifically for this, and digital cellular nets or the UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) nets’ third generation. The applications for WAP can be built on static pages as well as dynamic ones. GeneXus’ goal would be to develop with dynamic pages, Alejandro Panizza of ARTech’s development team explains. This way, massive services that allow queries to the database on the cellular would be available. In the case of corporate applications that require more processing speed as well as more storage capacity, ARTech is investigating the Windows CE system. They selected this operative system for initial research because it allows development in Java and Visual Basic, languages that are close to GeneXus, although they have not excluded the possibility of considering the development for Palm OS.
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