Live information update services over GPRS

This paper presents a novel live information update service for mobile phones working over GPRS C. Anderson (2001). The design presented deals with the delivery of updates to the phone with least possible delay, from the time of event and keeps the amount of data transferred, and thus cost, to a minimum. Therefore, the application created not only costs far less then the traditional update services working over SMS, its end-to-end timing is much more predictable. Further, since the application is created in J2me [V. Piroumian (2002), W. John (2002)] it is able to run on any Java enabled phone-supporting GPRS.