The Fabric of Mobile Services Software Paradigms and Business Demands [Hardcover]

In order for mobile services to achieve the scale, scope, and agility required to keep them relevant and successful, a number of fundamental technical and business challenges need to be addressed. The Fabric of Mobile Services provides readers with a solid understanding of the subject, covering short-and long-term considerations and future trends that will shape thistechnological evolution.

Beginning with an introduction that brings readers up to speed on the mobile services environment, the book covers:

• The business of mobile services
• Mobile user location as a service enabler
• Simplicity and user experience
• The always-on infrastructure challenge
• Underpinnings of mobile opportunism
• Design patterns for mobile services
• Advanced services of today and tomorrow

Complemented with case studies and end-of-chapter summaries that help facilitate readers' comprehension, The Fabric of Mobile Services is essential reading for researchers, engineers, software engineers, students, and anyone working in the mobile services industry.

1 Introduction.

1.1 Introduction.

1.2 Ubiquitous Computing and Next Generation Mobile Services.

1.3 The Mobile Web.

1.4 Emerging Mobile Services Environments - Network View.

1.5 The Mobile Device Environment.

1.6. The Personal Assistant Example.

1.7 The FSocial Rules of Mobile Services.

1.8 The Focus of This Book.

2 The Business of Mobile Services.

2.1 The Ecosystem alã!