Mobile Computing and Wireless Standards 

Need for Standards in a Complex Industry Like Mobile Computing

Our industry that is so complex and is based on integrating components fro a number of diverse fields needs standards more than anything else. We are highlighting the importance of those standards.

Various Standards

• Wireless Wide Area Network Standards like IS41, IS95, IS-2000, etc, 

• Wireless LAN standards

• Wireless Bluetooth Standards

• Wireless Application Standards -  WAP standard

• Mobile Device Standards - "Hardly any exist today  - we need these desperately" - a Mobileinfo comment

• Mobile User Interface Standards - See Localization Standards - overlap there

• Mobile Localization Standards

• Mobile Commerce Standards - Several efforts with Nokia as one of the leaders 

• Mobile Payment Standards - 

• SyncML - an Information  Synchronization Standard between handheld devices, PCs and Servers

• Mobile Computing Asset Management Standards - No standard exists here, as far as we know.

• Wireless Application Development Standards - several exist- See Application development section

• Mobile Data Synchronization Standards

• Mobile Content Management Standards

• Mobile Messaging Standard - based on an initiative started by Ericsson, Nokia & Motorola in April 2000

• Mobile Marketing Standards - issued by Windwire

• VoiceXML standard - Voice-enablement of mobile applications

• Wireless Advertising Standards - Go to Wireless Marketing Association site