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To: kech who wrote (648)	10/11/1999 9:30:00 AM
From: kinkblot	Read Replies (1) of 1820

"That's a WAP" Front page article in today's Wall Street Journal is about Phone.com (formerly Unwired Planet) and how Ericsson helped them sell their protocol to the wireless industry. The basic concept here is to modify Internet content so that it can be displayed on a typical small cellular phone display. Therefore the emergence of WAP as a standard for this application reduces the need for virtual displays such as the CyberDisplay. Today, the new technology, known as Wireless Application Protocol, or WAP, is spreading like wildfire in Europe and Japan and is due to hit American stores in earnest next year. Motorola Inc. estimates that half of the 200 million cell phones that will be shipped world-wide in 2000 will be equipped with WAP browsers. And in Britain, Germany and Scandinavia, rarely a day goes by without the announcement of another WAP application. The article goes on to say that companies representing 95% of the world market for cellular handsets now support WAP. Will this enable the cellular phone to become "a first-class citizen of the Internet" as Mr. Parrish of Phone.com predicts? Not by my definition. WT

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