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To: Srivaths Srinivasan who wrote (6955)	1/9/1998 11:42:00 AM
From: Sawtooth	Respond to of 152472

Srivaths: Thanks for posting the article; certainly "food for thought". I'll have to leave the next course in the meal to the resident experts who know a heck of a lot more than I do about what this likely means to Q. ...Tim

To: Srivaths Srinivasan who wrote (6955)	1/9/1998 11:51:00 AM
From: waitwatchwander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Srivaths, I am familiar, although uneducated, with this initiative. I posted the following to the Unwired Planet thread in the middle of the SEA crisis. Message 2988151 Dissappointedly, it got lost in the shuffle. Qualcomm is working with Unwired Planet. My posting refers to a Nortel-Cellnet innitiative to take a different approach. The interesting part of the posting is: " Nortel's approach is not simply to port the Web onto a handheld. Terrett says the Web's largely text-led approach amounts to providing a new computer that relies on old-style command-line user interface. For this reason, he believes the Wireless Application Protocol, an effort by Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and US browser maker Unwired Planet to design a way of translating the HTML code which makes up Web pages so they can appear on small-screen portable machines, is doomed to failure - even though instant access to the billions of bytes of existing Web data, without having to rework them for a new medium - must have its attractions." Given the Q's strategic relationship with Nortel, it looks like they could be playing both sides of the fence. However, IMO, this is out of character.