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To: JGoren who wrote (37452)	7/31/1999 8:43:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

Q & Wireless Knowledge Mentioned> From the August 2, 1999, issue of Wireless Week Waiting For The Blushing Bride By Brad Smith SAN JOSE, Calif.--Attending the Unwired Universe conference here last week was like sitting in a church before a large wedding. The groom is waiting, all dressed up with a nervous grin on his face, but the bride still hasn't arrived. An air of expectancy was building among the more than 1,100 content and application developers, wireless carriers and handset manufacturers attending. After a long engagement, the reality of the vows to the Wireless Applications Protocol was near at hand. This was the first Unwired Universe conference since November 1997, which drew about one-fourth the size of this crowd. It also was the first one since the main sponsor, Unwired Planet Inc., changed its name to Phone.com Inc. and held its successful initial public offering of stock. The bride at this wedding is the Wireless Application Protocol, the industry data standard originally postulated by Phone.com and now recognized by 25 handset manufacturers and 17 wireless carriers. The marketing research firm Strategy Analytics released a study at the conference forecasting that 525 million WAP phones will be sold worldwide by 2003. Among the celebrants were the Palm Computing Co. and Wireless Knowledge LLC, which lent their considerable presence by joining the 125-member WAP Forum. The bride is still in the wings, though, as the WAP handsets will start appearing on the market in the next few months. Among them is one announced at the show by Motorola Inc. that likely will be the first to market with the latest WAP version 1.1 microbrowser from Phone.com. Motorola's tri-band Timeport P7389 global system for mobile communications phone should be commercially available by the end of the year, first in Europe but later in the United States. The handset will work on 900 MHz, 1800 MHz and 1900 MHz GSM networks so it can be used globally. For the first time Nokia Corp. showed off its 6185 handset for code division multiple access networks. Sprint PCS and Canada's Bell Mobility will use that model, which has an earlier version of the WAP browser. Excitement over the Internet is driving the anticipation for the WAP browser, a software built into handsets that enables them to access specially written content on the Web. About one-third of those at Unwired Universe were content and application developers looking for a way to cash in on the rising expectations of a wireless Web. They were courted by carriers with similar aspirations. Konstantin Zsigo, president of Zsigo Wireless Data Consultants Inc., said the applications developers his company has been training are in high demand because of the expectations for WAP. "Clearly it's going to happen; there's too much momentum for it to stop," Zsigo said. "People are trying to react quickly to what they know is coming. They're in a little bit of a panic mode." Besides the new handsets coming out, Phone.com Vice President Ben Linder said carriers are starting to recognize WAP as a network-enhancing infrastructure tool. Bell Atlantic Mobile Inc. recently licensed the Phone.com server to help the carrier dynamically manage which networks its customers roam on. Phone.com also announced its Mobile Management Architecture to allow operators to use WAP for over-the-air provisioning of handsets and network elements. The addition to the WAP Forum of Palm Computing, Wireless Knowledge LLC, Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hitachi Inc. has only added to the technology's momentum. Wireless Knowledge is a joint venture of Microsoft Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. to provide wireless access to enterprise data. Palm's membership represents a coup for WAP because the recent wirelessly enabled Palm VII uses a "Web clipping" form of Internet access that differs from the WAP model. Palm Computing joined the WAP Forum to help promote widespread mobile Internet access, said Mark Bercow, a vice president. He said Palm has pledged to support WAP in future releases of the Palm platform. As the conference ended, the anticipation continued to build in the crowd. It was as if the wedding march had just started and the bride was about to walk down the aisle.

To: JGoren who wrote (37452)	8/1/1999 6:38:00 AM
From: Jack Bridges	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

SHS stands for shoulder-head-shoulder, and can be tilted to either side. In the old textbooks, volume had to rise during the left shoulder and head phases, falling off as the right shoulder failed in its attempt at a new high. The neck line simply connects the low points from the completion of the left shoulder and the completion of the head, extending to the right. When the right shoulder, having failed in its mission to keep the advance going by making a new high, retreats to the neck line, the stage is set for a downside breakout. It doesn't have to happen, of course, but it is ominous. If you had been long since before the pattern developed, and had now witnessed three retreats to the same level, you might be inclined to bail out if "support" at the neck line fails to materialize. You and a lot of others. When a breakout occurs, it tends to move rapidly as the disillusioned jump ship. One way to measure the potential of the down draft is to count the price range from the neck line to the top and subtract that amount from the line. One more point. After the breakout, there will generally be a rally carrying back to the neck line, which now acts as resistance. Those who did not jump ship earlier, do so now. The decline then continues until it finds a new level of equilibrium. Take a look at Maurice's INX chart in this context and you should see both the completed SHS and the pending buildup to a larger one. Jack Bridges