Wireless apps: product screenshots

Click for larger image	Air2Web Over the Internet, you use Air2Web's DevCenter tools to store your XML-based application dialog components.
Click for larger image	Aligo Aligo's new Application Builder arrived just as we finished the review. It's a welcome addition to M-1 Mobile Application Server.
Click for larger image	AnyDevice AnyDevice Studio offers drag-and-drop assembly of application dialog components.
Click for larger image	iConverse iConverse Mobile Studio's graphical simulations of wireless devices show exactly how the application dialog will appear in actual use.
Click for larger image	MobileQ MobileQ's XMLEdge pops up dialog boxes to collect an application's wireless attributes and characteristics.
Click for larger image	ViaFone The ViaFone OneBridge Application Builder offers a tree view of wireless dialog elements, an XML text editor and a preview pane for animating the application dialog.
Click for larger image	Wireless Knowledge According to rules you specify, Wireless Knowledge's Echo filters IIS-emitted Web page material to produce a separate data stream for wireless devices.

Nance, a software developer and consultant for 29 years, is the author of Introduction to Networking, 4th Edition and Client/Server LAN Programming. He can be reached at barryn@erols.com.

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