Bringing Internet Services to Wireless Devices

With a phenomenal increase in the number of mobile phone users and due to the fact that internet is an Inescapable part of today's life, the necessity of bringing the internet services to the mobile devices can hardly be overstressed. While the technology for wireless access to the internet is more or less established, the challenge is now on Improving the quality of the multimedia information that is there on the Internet, for the mobile devices, since the hardware support on the mobile devices is limited. Thus, a lot of effort Is being put into adaptation of web contents for the mobile devices. In this paper, we have reviewed the state-of-the-art technology of wireless application protocol (WAP) that Is the current de-facto industry standard for providing internet services to the mobile devices. We have discussed a number of applications, of both commercial and academic interests, and their implementation principles.