Mobile Document Application Lanugage (IBM research)

Dan Connolly (connolly@w3.org)
Tue, 29 Dec 1998 21:02:01 +0000


I broke another psion. Surfing for a replacement, I
found this tidbit. Juicy? Stale?

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http://www.21store.co.uk/pdantic/

ALL ABOARD - DEC 25

As a subset of IBM's Almaden Research Centers 'Grand Central Station'
(GCS) project, engineers are working on a Bluetooth & IrDA-aware
universal remote control protocol called MODAL.

The MObile Document Application Language (MODAL) will allow for example,
you to walk into a room and for all the modal-aware devices within range
to
come up on your PDA or SmartPhones LCD display as a smart buttons with
appropriate control options, and for you to be able to control those
devices
be they a TV, VCR, Printer, Fax etc.

Grand Central Station is a web oriented searching system using
Extensible
Markup Language, also known simply as XML.
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-- 
Dan Connolly
http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/