Hong Kong 3G Content Management System
7 May, 2004

Hodfords is proud to annouce that AuthorSmith now supports 3G mobile services.

Hodfords believes that AuthorSmith is the only multi-lingual Content Management System (CMS) in Hong Kong that facilitates businesses to seemlessly offer content (e.g. streaming videos, streaming music, text, images, etc.) to 3G users. AuthorSmith can be operated in a multitude of languages by a multitude of users simultaneously- with this faculty- large enterprises with an extensive network of branches can share, manage and promulgate content to all 3G users on a global scale.

AuthorSmith supports the latest WAP 2.0 standard (Wireless Application Protocal), a greatly improved version of WAP 1.0 using XHTML MP (eXtensible HyperText Markup Language Mobile Profile) instead of WML (Wiresless Markup Language).

For the forseeable future, bandwidth usage will be a key concern to end-users, operators and content providers. In view of this, AuthorSmith boasts optimisation and compression features that (i) generate XHTML pages that are optimised to be very bandwidth friendly with no compromise to functionality and (ii) optimise and compress image files to reduce bandwidth consumption with a slight loss of image quality which users will likely tolerate in return for faster download and reduced bandwidth costs.

Hodfords believes that although WAP 2.0 is only supported, as of writing, by newer and higher-end phones, its acceptance and penetration into the Hong Kong markets will be rapid. Hodfords greatly welcomes WAP 2.0, a significantly more scalable and coherent standard from a development standpoint than its predecessor WAP 1.0 which often posed handset-compatibility issues.