Mobile Phone: Your Future Torchbearer.

           Increasingly, users are working with cell phones and PDAs to access data. Because finding desired information can be a challenge, companies such as America Online, Google and Yahoo developed search services specifically geared to mobile users. With the search engines engaged in fierce competition, mobile search is a lucrative revenue source simply because of a 3 times bigger market pie than the computer market. The task is not easy though due to the tiny screen and the slow data transfer rate.

           A bit of technical snag in the online quiz postings due to the lab pc configurations delayed proceedings and the normal seminar session resumed when the snag was fixed. The excitement of the upcoming assessment hardly allowed me to focus on the proceedings. From the little I could remember we discussed on standardizing all the devices like mp3 players, pdas, mobile phones so that all of them can be integrated together easily. We also looked into a the new technologies that can make it possible. Though sticking to java for the software requirements seemed to solve the task in the programming area.

           In most cases, mobile users search for spur-of-the-moment data, like a local restaurant or directions. Local search capabilities need to be rased for this. Today users can search for weather reports, stock quotes, business addresses, WiFi hotspots, daily horoscopes, dictionary definitions and the locations of various merchants. 4Info, which offers various mobile services, has a deal with Fandango that allows people who call up for movie times to hit "Reply 1" to immediately buy tickets from the online service. So days aren’t far when your mobile will be your torchbearer. Click here for the article in its original form.