Ray Rischpater Wireless Web Development

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THE WIRELEss WEB is here to stay. More than a billion people now use wireless devices, up from a paltry 200 million devices when I wrote the first edition of Wireless Web Development (Apress, 2000) a mere three years ago. The World Wide Web, and more recently the wireless World Wide Web, has made the dream of handheld devices for information access a reality. Wireless providers have activated the third-generation cellular systems to bring voice and high-speed data services to subscribers around the world. Data transfer rates for mobile handsets are often better than that of a conventional dialup modem, and in the future with fourth-and fifth-generation systems, wire- less networks rival today's Digital Subscriber Loop (DSL) data rates. It's time to stop and ask yourself: What are you doing on the wireless Web, and what can it do for you? Who Needs to Read This Book If you're interested in developing a Web site for use with wireless devices in a mobile environment, then this book is definitely for you. If you're a software developer, Webmaster, or intranet administrator, you can use the techniques and tools described in this book to deliver information to your customers, wherever they maybe. This book not only details the use of traditional Web technologies for the wireless market, but it gives you all the knowledge you need to create for emerg- ing environments including Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) 2.