Mobile Computing is very old, but then, it is still a very active and evolving field of research, whose body of knowledge awaits codification. In years past, IBM Researchers made numerous contributions ranging from technology for handheld and notebook computers to Mobile IP. Mobile computing is increasingly becoming more and more popular as people need information (even on the move) in this rapid changing information world. This article will attempt to highlight the concepts and basic issues relating to mobile computing.

Mobile Computing is becoming increasingly relevant due, in no small part, to the rise in the number of portable computers, and as well, in the desire to have continuous network connectivity to the Internet, irrespective of one’s physical location.

Mobile computing is all about providing access to computers and associated computer services while on the move. Ubiquitous computing complements this by surrounding users with very large numbers of computers typically embedded in the physical environment. Mobile computing is concerned with the connection of mobile or portable computers, and with the migration of software from a home platform to a remote one.

In other words, we want (and need) access to computing and communications not only from our home base/ apartment, but also while we’re in transit, and when we reach our respective destinations.

Mobile Computing Around the World

Mobile computing is becoming popular all over the world. Especially, notebook and pocket PCs are playing an important role in mobile computing.

In the typical business environment, mobile computing can be utilized while traveling on an airplane or working in a hotel room. Mobile computing is not a `scaled-down’ version of the established and well-studied field of distributed computing. The nature of wireless communication media and the mobility of computers combine to create fundamentally new problems in networking, operating systems, and information systems.

Mobile computing is rapidly rising to the top of the strategic investment list within many enterprises. These enterprises see the competitive advantage to a mobile computing business that includes mobilizing their existing enterprise applications and implementing new mobile applications.

In many respects, mobile computing has already exploded — but, if you want a peek at its imminent future, check out a smartphone, like the Nokia N95. Mobile Computing is expected to be next major paradigm in the evolution of computing. Technological advances are bringing about two major changes that have the potential to reshape the existing network computing into mobile computing. Mobile computing’s associated with the concept of any-time/ any place access to information and computation resources. Timely information, like what’s provide below:

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Now, if we consider the Web as today’s biggest, distributed information system, it seems only natural to add mobility to the web and a lot of research efforts and developments have been undertaken towards a “mobile web.”

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