• DocumentCode
    2295362
  • Title

    W4-the Wireless World Wide Web

  • Author

    Bartlett, Joel F.

  • Author_Institution
    Western Res. Lab., Digital Equipment Corp., Palo Alto, CA, USA
  • fYear
    1994
  • fDate
    8-9 Dec 1994
  • Firstpage
    176
  • Lastpage
    178
  • Abstract
    A number of people see personal digital assistants, PDAs, with wireless communication as the next big thing in the computer industry. However, the current PDA´s obvious limitations in computational power, storage, communication bandwidth, and display size pose the questions: can you build anything, and if so, would anyone want to use it? In order to put these dreams in perspective, we decided to build a wireless interactive PDA-based client to access the World Wide Web. The paper describes our design choices and experience with W4, the Wireless World Wide Web
  • Keywords
    Internet; client-server systems; internetworking; notebook computers; wide area networks; Internet; PDAs; W4; Wireless World Wide Web; personal digital assistants; wireless communication; wireless interactive PDA-based client; Bandwidth; Computer displays; Computer industry; Data communication; Mobile communication; Modems; Personal digital assistants; Web sites; Wireless communication; Workstations;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, 1994. Proceedings., Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Santa Cruz, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-6345-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MCSA.1994.513479
  • Filename
    513479