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PRE-WORKSHOP

 

Content delivery for Personal Digital Assistants (PDA)

 

P. L. Kubben

Maastricht University, The Netherlands

 

ABSTRACT:

In this pre-workshop we will focus on content delivery for handheld computers or Personal Digital Assistants (PDA). Several techniques will be demonstrated, varying from straight content delivery without any need for programming skills, to some Integrated Development Environments (IDE) with full control. A broad range of tools and software solutions will be shown, and compared to its competitors, with attention to advantages, disadvantages and unique specifications. Both Palm OS and Pocket PC / Windows Mobile 2003 development will be covered, in which cross platform delivery takes an important place.

 

Keywords:

Palm OS, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile 2003, iSilo, AvantGo, Mobipocket, Appforge MobileVB, Appforge Crossfire, NS Basic, CASL, and Microsoft Visual Studio.NET 2003

 

 

BENEFIT TO PARTICIPANTS ATTENDING SESSION: You will have a good overview of current techniques used for content delivery for mobile computing. Whether you are just interested in deploying Office documents to your students, or a programmer looking for a comparison of PDA development platforms, you will find the demonstrations useful.

 

PL Kubben

Erasmusdomein 132F

6229 GE Maastricht

Phone: +31 43 3875001

Email: mailto:pieter@kubben.nl