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Developing Software for a Mobile Service in India
July-Aug. 2012 (vol. 29 no. 4)
pp. 34-39
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Balachandran Seetharam, "Developing Software for a Mobile Service in India," IEEE Software, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 34-39, July-Aug., 2012.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MS.2012.53,
author = {Balachandran Seetharam},
title = {Developing Software for a Mobile Service in India},
journal ={IEEE Software},
volume = {29},
number = {4},
issn = {0740-7459},
year = {2012},
pages = {34-39},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2012.53},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Index Terms:
software engineering,mobile Internet,offline Internet access,handheld devices
Citation:
Balachandran Seetharam, "Developing Software for a Mobile Service in India," IEEE Software, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 34-39, July-Aug. 2012, doi:10.1109/MS.2012.53
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