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Articles tagged with: W3c
Open Mobile Terminal group sponsors W3C Mobile Web Initiative
The mobile phone trade group, the OMTP says that it has become a sponsor of the w3c Mobile Web Initiative (MWI), to further bolster the joint goal of boosting browsing the web from mobile devices. OMTP, the organisation behind the BONDI initiative, will use this sponsorship to drive standards and best practices. more
Open Mobile Terminal Platform Joins the W3C
OMTP, the mobile operator sponsored organisation developing open standards for mobile phones announced that it has joined the w3c in order to further the work of its BONDI project, an initiative aimed at opening up access to mobile device functions securely, to web based services. more
New Standards for Mobile Internet Sites Published
The w3c, which develops guidelines for website standards has published the details of new standards that will make it easier for people to browse the Web on mobile devices. Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0, published as a w3c Recommendation, condenses the experience of many mobile Web stakeholders into practical advice on creating mobile-friendly content. more
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Web Standards Body to Promote Mobile Internet Services
The body which develops guidelines for the internet, the w3c has issued invitations to participate in a new group chartered to explore the potential of mobile technology to help bridge the digital divide. The Mobile Web For Social Development (MW4D) Interest Group will study the issues that rural communities and underprivileged populations face in accessing information and communication technology. more
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New Tool Verifies if Websites Work on Mobile Phones
The World Wide Web Consortium (w3c), a group which promotes internet standards has launched the alpha release of a web page validator which checks pages for compatibility with mobile phones. more
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Chinese 3G Handset Using Japanese Software
As China prepares to roll-out its third-generation digital phone service, Japan's ACCESS Co. has announced that Hisense Communication, a major handset manufacturer in China has selected ACCESS' NetFront Mobile Client Suite for deployment in its Hisense HT28, a trial handset for TD-SCDMA networks. HT28 is a dual-mode (TD-SCDMA/GPRS) handset which has deployed NetFront Mobile Client Suite including ACCESS' NetFront browser, MMS client, JV-Lite2 Java virtual machine and POP3/SMTP client. more
Related Tags: td-scdma, mms, java, netfront
Help Shape the Web on Mobile Devices
The World Wide Web Consortium (w3c) is calling for participants to take part in a field trial that will help shape the future of the Web on mobile phones. The w3c standards body launched the Mobile Web Initiative to show users that it is serious about improving the quality of Web access on handhelds, wireless pagers and smart phones. The effort is being overseen by w3c Director and Web creator Tim Berners-Lee, who said that mobile access to the Web "...has been a second class experience for far too long." Berners-Lee discussed the MWI in his keynote speech at the World Wide Web 2005 Conference in Chiba, Japan. more
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Moves to ease web site display on mobile phones
The World Wide Web Consortium (w3c) has announced the launch of the Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) - an endeavor to make Web access from a mobile device as simple, easy, and convenient as Web access from a desktop device. more
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View Word and Excel documents on a cell phone
Sharp Corporation and Canada's BitFlash have developed an Electronic Document Display System for mobile phones that enables business documents and graphics from Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat, used on the PC desktop to be displayed with zoom-in/zoom-out viewing on mobile phones by converting the files to the international standard SVG-Tiny format. more
New graphics format for cell phone screens
The internet "governing body" the w3c has formally issued a new graphics standard, Mobile SVG. The new format is vector graphic based, so that unlike normal graphics that cannot scale easily to larger screens - vector graphics loose none of their detail regardless of the screen size. This should make it a lot easier for designers to work with handsets of varying screen sizes. more
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