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Web services over GPRS: MP showcases .Net-based apps

A new generation of mobile business applications, they call it: Mobile Productivity is demonstrating .NET Compact Framework under its new software, here at TechEd in Barcelona.

The boast is that the applications could be rushed out quickly.

One of the apps on show here, SmartCalc, is pretty well known, especially in banking and finance circles. The PocketPC edition on show in Barcelona was developed "in a fraction of the time of a regular development project."

"Almost more important than the speed of development and the power of the application," says the company, "is the ease that web services such as dynamic access to interest rates, account details, and bank account, postcode lookup and so on, were integrated."

I'd give you the URL, but right at this moment it requires an ID and password, which doesn't seem to be available. I'll update the report when I get the chance. The company did announce a mobile Intranet product back in February. That will point you at their site ...