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Event Tracking in a Mobile Environment

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Summary: Mobile network operators must continuously monitor their networks in order to improve service. The new Event Tracking API for J2ME, JSR 190, currently in public review, standardizes event relay and collection for mobile networks, enabling application developers to build event tracking into their applications based on that standard. In this interview, JSR 190 spec lead Shai Gotlib shares with Artima the requirements of mobile event collection, how JSR 190 provides reliable event collection in the face of intermittent network failures, and discusses the privacy and security aspects of mobile event collection.

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Frank

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Event Tracking in a Mobile Environment

September 5, 2006 9:00 PM

The new Event Tracking API for J2ME, JSR 190, standardizes event tracking in mobile networks. In this interview with Artima, JSR 190 spec lead Shai Gotlib discusses the need for mobile event collection, how JSR 190 provides reliable events in the face of intermittent network failures, and the privacy aspects of mobile event tracking.

http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/mobile_events.html

Reading this interview with JSR spec lead Shai Gotlib, one cannot help but think of the privacy aspects of such technologies. As event monitoring technologies become widely deployed, how do you think users will respond to service providers' increasingly better ability to monitor user activities on mobile devices?