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Wireless Multimedia Services and Applications
Published in K.R. Rao, Zoran S. Bojkovic, Dragorad A. Milovanovic, Wireless Multimedia Communications, 2018
K.R. Rao, Zoran S. Bojkovic, Dragorad A. Milovanovic
MMS is an innovative messaging system, standardized by both the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Forum (now Open Mobile Alliance, OMA) and 3GPP. It is similar to SMS and EMS, but allows one to insert multimedia contents in a message such as music, pictures, video clips, text, and so forth. MMS is independent of the underlying mobile network (e.g., GSM, wideband code-division multiple access or WCDMA, etc.) and allows content delivery to either mobile phones or e-mail addresses. On the basis of these features, it is estimated that this messaging service will increase telecommunication profits, addressing both professionals and personal user markets. Due to its high efficiency, the delivery of MMS to mobile phones through the air interface is based on the WAP protocol stack. Note that here we use MMS to denote both the service and the message itself; the distinction between these two meanings will be evident from the context.
Sharing Information
Published in Kirk Hausman, Sustainable Enterprise Architecture, 2011
Modern SMS solutions can transmit other media content in addition to textual data. SMS connectivity can also be used for monitoring and telemetry between independent devices and is gaining acceptance in vehicle-tracking solutions along with cellular GPS tracking. Although it is not suited to transmission of sensitive information, SMS solutions are gaining widespread acceptance among emergency responders, following the success of their use in New York at the time of the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.
Mobile Music Marketing
Published in Tom Hutchison, Paul Allen, Web Marketing for the Music Business, 2013
Cell phone marketers have begun using push messages to consumers’ cell phones to market products. A push message is a specially formatted SMS text message that provides the recipient with marketing information they have requested or agreed to receive. SMS messages are limited to text only and to 160 characters. Despite the limitations of the media, it has proven to be highly effective generating high brand recall and response rates.
The digital ‘connected’ earth: open technology for providing location-based services on degraded communication environments
Published in International Journal of Digital Earth, 2018
Ramón Piedrafita, Rubén Béjar, Rubén Blasco, Alvaro Marco, F. Javier Zarazaga-Soria
In a more ambitious use of SMS, they have been considered as additional communication channels that can extend the Web to the mobile devices. In this way, Lombera et al. (2013) present the design of peers that form a mobile ad hoc network over SMS and Android phones. It describes a decentralized search and retrieval system that provides resistance against the vulnerabilities of centralized services. The SMS interface and its SMS–HTTP bridge enable SMS-capable mobile phones to communicate with and obtain information from HTTP nodes in the ad hoc network. The system over SMS protocol enables mobile phones to communicate directly with each other and share information in a peer-to-peer fashion bypassing the Internet. In another approach, Wilde and Vaha-Sipila (2010) present a proposal for integrating SMS in the Web standardization processes by the specification of Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme ‘sms’ for specifying one or more recipients for an SMS message. SMS messages are two-way paging messages that can be sent from and received by a mobile phone or a suitably equipped networked device.