Technology

Thinking of making your website or blog WAP compliant? It looks like it is easier said than done. Imagine, how will you fit the PC monitor screen to a cell phone screen? Those tiny LCD cellphone screen can’t possibly fit in it, that is, if you will put everything in it. If you are using your cell phone to browse non WAP blogs and websites, you can still view the whole page but you have to zoom-in and zoom-out in order for you to read the contents. It’s not possible to load the whole page in a cell phone’s browser because the letters are too tiny and will not show properly. A WAP compliant or mobile website have slim lined(eliminated the non necessary contents) the webpage and just put the important contents in a small mobile website.

If you own a website (a non blog site) with thousands of pages, for example: static html pages, it will take a long time for you to convert all those pages. But if you own a hosted blog, then lucky for you because it will only take you a few minutes just installing a plug-in. This will only work in a hosted Wordpress blog. I don’t know if the free wordpress blog can use plugins because I haven’t tried it. If you like to make your blog WAP compliant, you can download the plugin here. The plugin is created by Alex King and if you are willing to donate, it’s better so we can help our fellow entrepreneur create more wonderful plugins.

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Do you remember the song of Neil Sedaka “My World is Getting Smaller Everyday”?. Maybe the new generation haven’t heard of that song. I can still remember that song in my childhood years. Technology really makes our world smaller everyday. Since the revolution of the internet there are many smart gadgets in the market being invented year after year. Computers are getting smaller and smaller, smarter and faster. Today, you can see powerful laptops in the fraction of it’s size from it’s predecessors. Remember that 386 computers? today when you see someone still using it, I guess you will laugh and say that it only fits in a museum. Websites too are changing and becoming more and more dynamic. But one area that sparks my interest are the mobile phones that can surf the internet. Before I’m skeptic to the marketing potential of the WAP market since the small screen of those cell phones are inconvenient when surfing. Also, surfing using your computer is cheaper and you can do things better than just pushing your cellphone keypad which will take longer just to type a single word.

But come to think of it. Technology will get better and better and having a website compliant to WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) will give website owners an edge compared to those who does not plan to take advantage of this new technology. Anyway, GPRS/MMS is not really the latest technology because it has been around for years. But before, not many have WAP access and your phone should be postpaid to use it. Now, telcos are providing this service to all packages, be it a prepaid or a postpaid. You can even access some WAP websites for free like the Yahoo! search and Yahoo! mail provided by Globe telecom. And maybe sooner or later many telcos might bring down the cost of using GPRS since they compete with each other and might provide more features and services.

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Have you heard of the words ‘Mobile Entrepreneur’? You see then every where, in coffee shops who access the internet with their laptop while sipping their favorite brew. Those people are also those who are stuck in a traffic jam and send urgent email messages through their cell phones. They have all the modern communication tools at their disposal and they have access to information anytime or anywhere in the world. They can achieve high level of productivity because of the technology.

Since mobile entrepreneurs are on the go, the mobility of those high end gadget have made an attraction to them. Smart phones are getting better and better with regards to network access and storage capacity. They also have many built in application that makes them useful to the mobile worker. One good example is the Nokia E90. It’s no just a cell phone, it can be a mini laptop as you can see in the picture below.
The following features are 3G: HSDPA/ 3.6 Mbps, Camera: 3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels, autofocus, video(VGA 30fps), flash; secondary QCIF videocall camera,Built-in GPS receiver (with preinstalled maps), Push to talk,Video calling,Java MIDP 2.0,MP3/M4A/AAC/eAAC+/WMA player, FM radio, TV out, Voice, command/dial, PIM including calendar, to-do list and printing , Document viewer, Photo/video editor.
Not only will these devices provide entrepreneurs with timely and precise access to information but also with much higher quality of of accessed information with the introduction of 3G networks and rich media by local telecom.

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One of the outstanding discovery of an innovator, Bonifacio Comandante Jr. have contributed much on the fishing industry. Imagine, how can you transport live fish without water? It’s impossible because just taking a fish out of water with only a few hours it will surely be dead. But not to Boni, because he have this technology of making the fish sleep or hibernate for 24 hours without water. Not only will it save on transportation cost but the survival rate is also astounding 95 to 97.5% because the fish is not stressed during transport. Compared to the conventional way, when the fish is awake, it is prone to shock specially in a rough ride. Not only will it increase the shipping cost, it will also have high mortality rate.

This technology is discovered by Boni by accident while experimenting on the sex reversals of groupers (lapu-lapu). He discovered the secret of fish hibernation in 1987 when he unintentionally left some fish in the ice bucket and found them still alive the next day. He then developed this technology and made it the basis of his masteral thesis in coastal resource management at Siliman University in Dumaguete City. The technology is now being used by fish growers in the Philippines to export live edible fish and crustacean like the groupers, prawns, white shrimp and ornamental fishes.

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