Mobile Computing Applications
Mobile computing
 is human–computer interaction by which a computer is expected to be 
transported during normal usage. Mobile computing involves mobile 
communication, mobile hardware, and mobile software. Communication 
issues include ad hoc and infrastructure networks as well as 
communication properties, protocols, data formats and concrete 
technologies. Hardware includes mobile devices or device components. 
Mobile software deals with the characteristics and requirements of 
mobile applications. - Wikipedia
Examples of applications such as mobile banking :
Push Email
Push
 email is an email system that provides an always-on capability, in 
which new email is actively transferred (pushed) as it arrives by the 
mail delivery agent (MDA) (commonly called mail server) to the mail user
 agent (MUA), also called the email client. Email clients include 
smartphones and, less strictly, IMAP personal computer mail 
applications.
In
 Blackberry, BlackBerry uses wireless mail user agent devices and a 
BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) attached to a traditional email 
system. The BES monitors the email server, and when it sees new email 
for a BlackBerry user, it retrieves (pulls) a copy and then pushes it to
 the BlackBerry handheld device over the wireless network.
BlackBerry
 became very popular, in part because it offers remote users "instant" 
email; new emails appear on the device as soon as they arrive, without 
the need for any user intervention. The handheld becomes a mobile, 
dynamically updating, copy of the user's mailbox. As a result of the 
success of BlackBerry, other manufacturers have developed push email 
systems for other handheld devices, such as Symbian- and Windows 
Mobile-based mobile phones. However, they only support push email for 
some email services.
With
 the release of the BlackBerry 10 operating system for its new 
generation of mobile device, BES is no longer available for 
non-corporate client email delivery. Instead, BlackBerry 10 offers POP, 
IMAP, or ActiveSync for transferring email to and from a device. Of 
these, the latter two can provide push email delivery if the server 
supports it.
Mobile Banking
Mobile
 banking is a system that allows customers of a financial institution to
 conduct a number of financial transactions through a mobile device such
 as a mobile phone or personal digital assistant.
Mobile
 banking differs from mobile payments, which involve the use of a mobile
 device to pay for goods or services either at the point of sale or 
remotely,analogously to the use of a debit or credit card to effect an 
EFTPOS payment.
The
 earliest mobile banking services were offered over SMS, a service known
 as SMS banking. With the introduction of smart phones with WAP support 
enabling the use of the mobile web in 1999, the first European banks 
started to offer mobile banking on this platform to their customers.
Mobile
 banking has until recently (2010) most often been performed via SMS or 
the mobile web. Apple's initial success with iPhone and the rapid growth
 of phones based on Google's Android (operating system) have led to 
increasing use of special client programs, called apps, downloaded to 
the mobile device. With that said, advancements in web technologies such
 as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript have seen more banks launching mobile web
 based services to complement native applications. A recent study (May 
2012) by Mapa Research suggests that over a third of banks have mobile 
device detection upon visiting the banks' main website. A number of 
things can happen on mobile detection such as redirecting to an app 
store, redirection to a mobile banking specific website or providing a 
menu of mobile banking options for the user to choose from.
From
 the above explanation, we can conclude that Mobile computing 
applications are required to inform a news or information in the state 
of moving (mobile).
From
 Mobile computing applications make us easy  to do something more fast. 
 We just need install the application what we need on our mobile 
computing.  There are free and paid.  This is mobile computing 
appliation that many people use :
- Database queries over the static network for information such as weather,or trac conditions, and performing share transactions, or home shopping.
- Client{server applications, such as World Wide Web (WWW) browsing, electronic mail, Usenet news, and remote sessions on static computers.
- Multimedia applications, such as a video phone, television broadcasts, video mail, and video on demand.
- Collaborative working, requiring a group protocol for distributed transactions and floor control.
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