CityU '08-'09 310KM Mobile Commerce Applications

Lab/Tutorial 1

Assessment weight : 2%

 Due : Week 2
Part 1 Review Questions

Using any search engine of your choice find answer for the following:

  1. Define synchronization and give a business example of its use.
  2. List the major software components of mobile computing.
  3. Distinguish between WML, cHTML, xHTML, SMS, EMS, and MMS.
  4. Three mobile portals, their URL and the types of information they provide.
  5. Define contextual computing.
  6. Discuss the benefits of telemetry-based systems.
Write up your answers using MicroSoft NotePad, and save in a file named "ex1.txt".

Part 2 Create and publish your own Web page using xhtml

  1. Use the simple Notepad editor in Windows (do not use tools that provide xHTML authoring features), using the following file as a reference, write your web page and save in a file named "index.html". 
    
                <?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "utf-8"?>
                <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
                        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

                <html xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
                <head>
                       <title>CityU 2008-09 310KM Lab1 Part2
                </head>
                <body>
			your name
                        your student id
                        <a href="ex1.txt">Part 1 Answers
                </body>
		</html>
  2. Uploading both "index.html" and "ex1.txt" files to your Personal Web Folder under Content Collection in our Blackboard eLearning portal.
  3. Publish your pages by giving permission to the "Public" user.
  4. Check if your page is available on the Web.

Part 3 Team Assignment

  1. Within a tutorial session, form a team of 2-3 student. Each team should examine a major vendor of mobile devices (Nokia, Kyocera, Motorola, Palm, BlackBerry, GL, etc.). Each team will research the capabilities and prices of the devices offered by each company and then make a class presentation, the objective of which is to convince the rest of the class why one should buy that companyˇ¦s products.
  2. Publish your answers after you finished.