Technology Forecast 20012003 2001th Edition Eric M Berg by Eric M. Berg 9781891865046, 1891865048 instant download after payment.

This Technology Forecast emphasizes the emergence of the mobile Internet the use of handheld devices and wireless communications to access a variety of network-based services whose impact during the next five years is expected to be as great as the Web's during the past five years. This Forecast analyzes the characteristics of "killer" applications for the mobile Internet and discusses the mobile applications already in use or likely to become available in the near future. The book covers the devices used to access the mobile Internet both handheld computers with wireless network connectivity and Web-enabled mobile phone handsets as well as other emerging computing platforms, such as consumer Internet access devices and digital set-top boxes for Internet-enhanced access to cable and satellite television.

The Forecast provides extensive coverage of deployments in wireless communications networks, particularly second-and-a-half-generation networks, which provide always-on, packet-switched data communications capabilities, and third-generation networks, which will eventually provide high-bandwidth services to mobile subscribers. Our Forecast also discusses the wide variety of software needed to enable the mobile Internet, including Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) browsers and gateways, as well as alternatives to WAP; markup languages for the mobile Internet; wireless application servers; and software tools for creating location-based services.

This Forecast also covers major developments in semiconductors and traditional computing platforms, including the release of new microprocessors based on Intel's IA-64 architecture and of new versions of Windows and Linux, all of which will allow low-end servers to increase their inroads into the enterprise computing market. The book goes on to consider the continued enhancement of wireline communications over both fiber optic and copper cabling, as well as the ongoing shift of carrier networks from circuit- switching to