Chapter 10. Mobile and Wireless

Mobile and wireless devices are fast becoming first class citizens of the Internet as well as of corporate enterprises. The device landscape, once dominated by personal computers (PCs), is becoming littered with a variety of different form factors, user interface (UI) paradigms, and vertical market use cases. This is not surprising as we have always shared our homes and offices with a multitude of “things”—alarm clocks, boom boxes, stereo systems, telephones, printers, televisions, and many more.

What is changing, however, is that these “things” are becoming digital and digital platforms that are capable of receiving renewable software, content, and services, which can then be delivered to the user through the ...

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