Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:32:25 +0530
From: Farooque Shaheen
Consumers will soon be able to recognise websites specially designed for
use by mobile phones by the new ?.mobi? suffix, which will be introduced
alongside the popular ?.com? and other top-level domain names. The new
suffix was approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN) at a Luxemburg meeting on Monday.
The first websites for mobile devices, which will be fit for a small
screen and limited memory and bandwidth, will be ready in 2006. Mobile Web
services will also use geographic information to take advantage of the
changing location of a mobile device, for instance to find the nearest
hospital, ICANN chairman Vint Cerf said.
The new domain name was requested by a group of powerful mobile phone
operators and handset makers, which set up a joint venture to encourage
companies and Web site designers to create mobile Web pages. Member
companies include Hutchison 3, GSM Association, Ericsson, Microsoft,
Nokia, Samsung, Telefonica Moviles, T-Mobile and Vodafone. If more Web
pages are optimised for handheld devices, rather than desktop or laptop
computers with big screens, these companies hope more consumers will
upgrade their phones.
Source: http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=96200
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Farooque Shaheen,
Caritor India Pvt Ltd.
Tel. 080-26678388 # 4105
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