Mobile Tender (M-Tender) For Public Work Department Within Malaysian Government.

• Main Author: Zahrawi, Ali Ahmad Deeb
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://etd.uum.edu.my/67/1/ali_ahmad_deeb_zahrawi.pdf; http://etd.uum.edu.my/67/
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

Mobile phones play a major role in people life today. Currently, mobile phones are no longer used only for voice communication but they are a convenient way of connecting to the Internet and for transferring data, exchanging e-mails, and doing small scale business transactions. The aim of this study is to enable the public to find out the needed information about tenders in the public work department, through providing an alternative of a new method in which the traditional way of gathering information about the tenders in Malaysian public work department can be expanded. The emergence and fast growing of mobile Internet technology can assist in making this a reality. With the mobile application, information about tenders in the aforementioned department can be accessed via a handheld of mobile devices just about anywhere and anytime as long as the service is available in that particular area. The study followed the phases in the system development life cycle methodology for developing the system .For the purpose of developing the mobile tender, the study has mainly applied the technology of Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) using wireless markup language (WML) as programming language.