BREW Development Experience: Reflections

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NewsAlert
News on
the Go
UC BERKELEY
SUMMER 2002
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Easier, Faster Access to News Should be a Way of
Lifestyle
Read articles already downloaded to your phone
Dont you ever wish you can utilize your time
while waiting for a bus, stuck in a shopping
line, or riding a subway by reading about whats
going on in world? Dont you wish to be notified
for breaking news, emergencies, or national and
weather alerts?
Dont you ever wish not having to run to a news
stand for papers on your already busy
mornings? Dont you wish you can choose only the
news you care about and jump to the articles of
your interests without flipping through the oily
pages and get your hands all dirty?
Manually update news whenever you want
Keyword search for articles and headlines
Choose only news categories that you want to read
BREW Development Experience Reflections
Afterthoughts
Change frequency of news updates
One problem area we encountered was with finding
a mobile news service provider. You may be able
to write the best mobile news application, but it
wont be successful without a good news provider.
Currently, there are few major news providers
that deliver news in a format that can be easily
interpreted by mobile devices. Mobile news
services are a new and develop-ing field with
exciting possibilities.
Developing with the BREW API has been our
pleasure. With further develop-ment and better
docum-entation, we believe BREW is on its way to
becoming the platform for mobile phones. As more
developers begin to support the platform, we are
excited to see what else is possible with BREW.
The BREW Solution The News Stories You Want on
Your Cellular Phone

• Cool features and simple user interface get two
  thumbs up.
• Get notified only when news you care about
  occurs
• Alert method depends on user priority settings
  for each news category
• Easily search for articles by headlines or
  keywords
• E-mail articles from your cellular phone to
  yourself or your friends
• Manually or automat-ically check for current news

NewsAlert the newspaper for the next generation
Acknowledgements John Canny Professor, UC
Berkeley Dan Greening, Ph.D.CEO, Big Tribe
Developers Seema Moorjani Ting Ting Liu Jesse
Suen