Last, but not least, is the technology that combines the best of all the worlds of mobility, Telematics. In one sense, Telematics combines location-based services, wireless portals, CRM, and GPS. Telematics is the use of wireless applications in vehicles, such as cars, buses, trains, and so on. Telematics applications typically provide a wireless connection to…

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Web portals such as Yahoo.com, MSN.com, and so forth require a live Internet connection to provide the door to enter their various services. The wireless Internet ultimately acts as that door. The Web portal can also be a corporate intranet portal that allows the employees of the company access address books or administrative applications such…

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There are really two categories of wireless solutions that need to be defined. As Figure 1.1 illustrates, one type of wireless application is a wireless “public” solution. In other words, it’s the use of a terminal and public networks to conduct transactions and access information that ultimately results in the transaction of some sort of…

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The application of mobile devices and wireless technology to enable communication, information access, and business transactions from any device, from anyone, from anywhere, at anytime. You may have noticed that this definition includes the word wireless. The key pieces of this definition here are that mobility and wireless can go together and are not necessarily…

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Introduction The terms wireless and mobility are quite often confused in the world of mobility. In fact, many mobile technology users consider these two terms as having the same or very similar definitions. However, the two words have very unique meanings, yet are used interchangeably, especially in the mobile business world. What then is the…

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