HP Labs India has urbanized a cloud-based technology, called SiteonMobile that make simpler admission substance and doing transactions on the Web. Quite than need the user to navigate the Web in a number of steps to attain a task, the series of steps required to entire the task are summarize in a cloud application that HP calls TaskLet, Sudhir Dixit, the director of lab told reporters.

Mobile phones users can admission exact information on Web or whole a transaction online by transfer an SMS or calling up a number that appeal to the applicable TaskLet on the cloud, said Geetha Manjunath, senior research scientist at lab.

PC users can run a TaskLet by pressing on the equivalent icon on their computer screens, she added. In India, where there are above 600 million mobile connections in country, nearly all people are probable to access the Web by mobile phones, Dixit said.

HP Labs India first reveals it was operational on the technology in 2008, as a means to make the Web available on mobile phones to the ample in emerging markets. The confront in emerging markets is that, since of the high charge of mobile bandwidth and comparatively low tech literacy, many users desire instinctive and rapid access to the information they require, quite than having to discuss the Web for it, Dixit said.

The Site on Mobile technology permits people with small or no programming experience to make the TaskLets for a diversity of online services as well as booking airline tickets online, or an everyday horoscope, Dixit said.