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To: Mark Oliver who wrote (691)	11/2/1999 5:38:00 PM
From: Mark Oliver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1080

Push coming to WAP-enabled mobile phones By Ephraim Schwartz InfoWorld Electric infoworld.com Posted at 1:38 PM PT, Nov 1, 1999 Push technology, a concept that has been with us since Alexander Graham Bell invented the ringing telephone, will get a significant upgrade for mobile phones early next year. The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) Forum will introduce in the first quarter the next version of WAP, which will add a push specification to the protocol according to Chuck Parrish, vice chairman of the WAP Forum. Currently version 1.1 is shipping. Push technology on mobile phones is expected to be used for real-time alerts, accessing purchasing price information, airline schedule and meeting changes, among other things, according to Phil Hester, chief technology officer at IBM's Personal Systems Group, in Raleigh, N.C., and a member of the WAP Forum. Instant messaging will also be on mobile phones within the year, said Parrish. As WAP-enabled phones scale beyond voice access, corporate IT organizations and industry analysts believe mobile phones will in some cases replace handheld devices. "Eventually we would love to see cell phone, handheld, and messaging in one device," said John Weaver, vice president of information technology at Electra Entertainment Group, in New York. According to David Hayden, senior industry analyst at Mobile Insights, in Mountain View, Calif., by 2003 there will be 500 million mobile phones, half of which will have access to the Internet. "WAP-enabled mobile phones will be ten times the volume of handhelds," said Hayden. Parrish, who is also an executive vice president at Phone.com, in Redwood City, Calif., said his company is licensing its WAP-compliant browser to 26 mobile phone manufacturers. "What is clear, and generally accepted is that the number of people accessing the Internet from phones will be larger than those accessing from PCs," Parrish said. Reaching those numbers on mobile phones will get even easier due to a recent Microsoft announcement that the next version of its microbrowser architecture for mobile phones will be WAP-compliant. "Microsoft will make sure our implementation [of a microbrowser] works with WAP gateways," said Kevin Dallas, group product manager for the Wireless Telephony business unit at Microsoft. According to Dallas the big challenge for the industry is interoperabilty. Although Microsoft's browser will be compatible with WAP gateways, Dallas said that he did not rule out extending the microbrowser's capabilities beyond the standard WAP features. The WAP Forum can be reached at www.wapforum.org. InfoWorld Editor at Large Ephraim Schwartz is based in San Francisco.

To: Mark Oliver who wrote (691)	11/3/1999 1:24:00 AM
From: ynot	Respond to of 1080

mark, as i told you by pm a long time ago, we make our own decisions how does one 'spam' a single thread? if you think that this thing hasn't been profitable for longs and shorts and equally disasterous for both, then you are mistaken you can buy, you can sell please, it's your choice you can also voice your opinion, no questions asked no permission necessary i hope you feel better no one told you to buy or sell, didn't you buy some land with profits here? well done did you miss the fish that got away? tell that story to the folks who paid for the land because it wasn't pump.com profits, that is a fact take care and good luck ynot :)

To: Mark Oliver who wrote (691)	11/5/1999 1:20:00 PM
From: Jenna	Respond to of 1080

Mark, I only wish I had been on this thread a while back, but as one who 'discovered' at least for myself PHCM at 43 when it was trading 17,000 shares a day, and enjoyed it until about 225 when I opted to go to more affordable stocks, but never shorting PHCM after 2 failed shorts exited in time, and 2 shorty shorts (24 hours)in the interim. Recognizing an error and correcting is not in the reportoire of the shorter's philosophy. They are stalwart in their positions and any 'proof' of the flaws is like water washing over a ducks back, totally ignored. Their mysterious 'events' will be nothing more than a natural corrective phase of the stock just like QCOM, nothing more than a pause in a strong stock. QCOM was 'supposedly' overbought 300% ago, as was JDSU. Having been involved with hi flyers for the last 3 years I don't forsee anything more in PHCM than a natural correction, basing and returned to higher highs. I was 'ridiculed' at buying NSOL at 21 as buying an 'overpriced' net stock with no earnings, same thing with BVSN at 13. Of course I didn't hold it since then, but they have been traded and held as intermediate positions dozens of times. I'm not sure if the shorters did harm to the long positions, I think by now traders are used to the 'sky is falling' rhetoric of the shorts and have learned that it is part of the 'short strategy', should be ignored, and its not associated in any way shape and form with the actual quality of the stock itself. The 'short' strategy is to destroy the 'faith' of the knowledgeable and to bring over those 'sitting on the fence' to their side solely in the promotion of their own agenda, getting the stock to fall. They failed with QCOM, CMRC, and again with PHCM.