WAP and SMS applications use Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), which is a group of protocols that enables mobile phones and other mobile devices to run Web enabled applications and services.

We have already witnessed the rise and penetration of Web based services in almost all models of businesses during the last decade. And now we are all set to witness the marriage of wireless devices with the Web. Though the market has crossed it’s nascent stage, it’s still very young and standards for a seamless wireless devices to Web integration are still being formulated.

We provide solutions and application development for wireless devices like mobile phones and Web ready PDAs. We integrate our applications with such devices through gateways such as mBlox  and with majority of mobile service providers like Vodafone, O2, Orange and so on.

SMS (Short Message Service) has been a hit among wireless device users and in terms of utility it enjoys the same status as email if not more. Wireless services providers find it as a major contributor to their revenue and various services and applications are emerging that are based on SMS technology.

We have joined the band and have expanded our development services to cater to this segment of the market. Here are a few examples of how a SMS enabled Website can benefit you and how we have applied them to sites representing different businesses.

This involves enabling a Website so it sends SMS alerts on the mobile phone of the Website owner, each time a site visitor buys or avails of what the site has to offer.

This can benefit your business as follows

If you run an online store then receiving an alert on every order made on the site could your customer service level significantly. Your order delivery time would improve and you would have instantaneous updates on the sales that you make through your site.

A Website could host a quiz or a voting session and results could be broadcast to the users on their mobile phones.

You could SMS out promotional messages or any news regarding your business to the entire database of your registered users / customers. For example a SMS newsletter system. The users could receive information about the latest discounts and products of the company through SMS text messages. Any questions or comments at the user’s end could be text messaged back.

Any data that is in binary / digital format can be transmitted from your Website to any user’s or buyer’s wireless device through SMS.
This means any Website that offers products in the shape of data files like audio, video, images, ringtones, wall papers etc. could deliver these products directly to a customer’s mobile for him to download.

These services are utilized where input is required from a very large audience. The users SMS their messages to a given number known as ‘Shortcode’ and data received at this number is collected for further processing.

For example, a TV channel that needs it’s viewers’ comments on a given program could set up a shortcode for the users to SMS their views / opinions to.

We develop applications that collect and process the data collected through a shortcode service.

We use XHTML Mobile Profile  & WAP CSS to build wap sites and .NET or PHP to implement SMS based applications.

We use the following tools/technologies to build WAP and SMS applications: