Wireless Messaging Demystified: SMS, EMS, MMS, IM, and others

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 335 pages
• Published by: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Edition: 1st Edition October 23, 2002
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0071386297
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0071386296
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.7 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 1 pounds

Book Description
The SMS (Short Message Service) craze has swept Europe and China, and is quickly coming to the U.S.--and U.S. telecom porofessionals need to know about it--and the incredible financial potential it holds.


* Wide-ranging SMS applications from automatic meter-reading to personal messaging to getting a soda from a vending machine
* Development, implementation, and rollout for the general population and the enterprise
* Everything carriers and developers need to assess SMS appeal, uses, integration, and future
* Includes EMS, and open-standards extension of the SMS that supports pictures and sounds

Book Info
With this guide you will be able to understand why wireless messaging is the next communications phenomenon. Great for corporate and individual users alike. Softcover.

Reader Reviews
I was disappointed that this book included practically nothing on the actual SMSC handshaking and protocols, nor about actual SMS, EMS, or MMS specifications, etc.. The book seems geared very much towards management types who are trying to decide whether or not to implement mobile messaging in their business strategy. The history of SMS and case studies of successful text messaging business implementations get focus. It is not a practical reference for an actual developer and provides next to nothing in technical information.