Product Description

Make mobile applications that work. Just what you need to get mobile messaging going on virtually any platform, in virtually any language, this guide provides a thorough tutorial in the SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) programming environment, today's most-used mobile applications technology. Smart card expert Scott Guthery teams with information management specialist Mary Cronin to show seasoned developers how to: design, build, and integrate SMS messaging into your applications environment; create code that harnesses the power of the SIM; use the micro-browsers and micro-Web servers in 3G phones; construct leading-edge mobile commerce applications on today's networks; send and receive SMS messages from your server or your laptop; enable interfaces and other needed components; and, create secure wireless applications for corporate networks and VPNs.This book is for you if - you're building applications for GSM or 3G networks; you know that today's 2 billion SMS messages per month are not enough; you wish you had sample code for reality-based applications; you want to add mobile extensions to your software products and corporate network; you manufacture smart cards or create smart card applications; you seek reliable answers on 3G programming interfaces and toolkits; you want guidance on SIM application design, integration, or management for any platform; you prefer to avoid others' mistakes. Other books offer application overviews. "Mobile Application Development Using SMS and the SIM Toolkit" gets you writing code.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #323660 in Books
• Published on: 2001-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

From the Back Cover
MAKE MOBILE APPLICATIONS THAT WORK

Just what you need to get mobile messaging going on virtually any platform, in virtually any language, this guide provides a thorough tutorial in the SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) programming environment, today's most-used mobile applications technology. Smart card expert Scott Guthery teams with information management specialist Mary Cronin to show seasoned developers how to:

* Design, build, and integrate SMS messaging into your applications environment
* Create code that harnesses the power of the SIM
* Use the micro-browsers and micro-Web servers in 3G phones
* Construct leading-edge mobile commerce applications on today's networks
* Send and receive SMS messages from your server or your laptop
* Enable interfaces and other needed components
* Create secure wireless applications for corporate networks and VPNs

This book is for you if--

* You're building applications for GSM or 3G networks
* You know that today's 2 billion SMS messages per month are not enough
* You wish you had sample code for reality-based applications
* You want to add mobile extensions to your software products and corporate network
* You manufacture smart cards or create smart card applications
* You seek reliable answers on 3G programming interfaces and toolkits
* You want guidance on SIM application design, integration, or management for any platform
* You prefer to avoid others' mistakes

Other books offer application overviews. Mobile Application Development Using SMS and the SIM Toolkit gets you writing code.

About the Author
SCOTT B. GUTHERY is one of the best-known names in the technical aspects of smart cards. As Chief Technology Officer of Mobile-Mind, a provider of wireless consulting services and SIM applications, he was the lead designer of Microsoft's Smart Card for Windows. He also led the team that developed the first Java Card. A regular contributor to GSM and 3G standards, he holds 3 patents for smart card applications and real-time systems. He is the convener of the Architecture Working Group of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Smart Card Platform (SCP) project.

MARY J. CRONIN, Mobile-Mind President, is the author of five books on technology and business strategy, including Doing Business on the Internet, a groundbreaking work that has been translated into 10 languages. As a Professor of Management at Boston College, Dr. Cronin specializes in Electronic Commerce, International Telecommunications, and Wireless Information Management.

Customer Reviews

Fascinating, helpful, unique book but could go further
Guthery and Cronin have set out to explain a fascinating and useful area of mobile phone technology, which has the potential to make the phone in our pockets a much richer source of information and fun (without waiting for 3G which may never come). If you want to develop applications that run on phones, you should read this book. The book's code fragments and "hex" dumps of what should be going on inside the phone are invaluable, but they are incomplete -- it would be great if the authors' source code was available for download from a website.

I useful (but brief) introduction
This is a fairly well written introduction. But it is only that, an introduction. Better suited to managers than developers.

Don't expect this book to allow you to decode or create messages; you need the (freely downloaded) GSM specs for that. Check the 11.14 SAT spec before buying as that's relatively readable for a GSM spec and if you can understand it then this books not worth it. If you can't, it is.

The SMS Standard
A useful book on this scarcely written about topic, but a lot of it is filled with just reguritation of the international SMS standard, although he does explain it well.