Net Access From Mobile Phones
Martin Burns
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User since: 26 Apr 1999
Articles written: 143
Worried about having to format pages for PDAs? It's getting worse. @Motion have announced a system which will allow mobile phones to access email, fax
and the Web.
The system will use text and text-to-voice for output, and HTML, XML and
HDML for composition. @Motion are working on future developments including location-specific services such as restaurant reviews and directions to the nearest ATM.
See the full story at
TechWeb.
Martin Burns has been doing this stuff since Netscape 1.0 days. Starting with the communication ends that online media support, he moved back through design, HTML and server-side code. Then he got into running the whole show. These days he's working for these people as a Project Manager, and still thinks (nearly 6 years on) it's a hell of a lot better than working for a dot-com. In his Copious Free Time™, he helps out running a Cloth Nappies online store.
Amongst his favourite things is ZopeDrupal, which he uses to run his personal site. He's starting to (re)gain a sneaking regard for ECMAscript since the arrival of unobtrusive scripting.
He's been a member of evolt.org since the very early days, a board member, a president, a writer and even contributed a modest amount of template code for the current site. Above all, he likes evolt.org to do things because it knowingly chooses to do so, rather than randomly stumbling into them. He's also one of the boys and girls who beervolts in the UK, although the arrival of small children in his life have knocked the frequency for 6.
Most likely to ask: Why would a client pay you to do that?
Least likely to ask: Why isn't that navigation frame in Flash?