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By now, of course, you've heard of WAP, or Wireless Application Protocol. Contrary to what some critics want you to believe, WAP doesn't stand for 'Where Are the Phones?' Some analysts even coined the phrase 'Wait And Participate.' Whether WAP is here to stay is beyond the scope of... Jan. 10, 2001 Reads: 13,647 |
Have you ever wondered what makes a designer tick? Have you ever taken a minute to consider the types of work that make a designer smile? No? Well, luckily, I took a minute to answer these questions. After talking to more designers than you can shake a stick at, some of the answers... Jan. 10, 2001 Reads: 7,705 |
What does it take to make a viable WAP service? Contents that WAP users want, and equipment that enhances the experience and makes use of the service easy. Is that what people find, after they buy a WAP phone or PDA? Jan. 10, 2001 Reads: 7,759 |
Welcome to the inaugural issue of what in our humble opinion will become North America's compulsory reading on what wireless is all about and what it's becoming before you guys and gals overtake us! Through the technological ages, the U.S. has always held the whip hand over Europe. Jan. 10, 2001 Reads: 9,278 |
After any bloated hype comes the wake of a popular backlash. It's a turn of events that's all too familiar with WAP. Half of me isn't at all disappointed, having endured marketing campaigns that promised WAP would allow us to view the Internet in color at fantastic speeds in futuri... Jan. 10, 2001 Reads: 6,228 |
I've always been an adventurous spirit. In some circles that translates to brave; in others the definition leans more toward brainless. This thought crossed my mind most recently while discussing the expanse of wireless Web services with a friend. There had been a recent flurry of ... Jan. 10, 2001 Reads: 7,419 |
Not since the dawn of the industrial revolution has technology disrupted the way the world works. The Internet removed obstacles, practically overnight, that businesses had to work around for hundreds of years: geographical constraints, long transaction times, and large inventory. ... Jan. 10, 2001 Reads: 6,160 |
Interview with Ted Ladd, formerly lead evangelist, Platform Group, Palm, Inc. Jan. 9, 2001 Reads: 7,778 |
Denise Lahey is the chief executive officer of OracleMobile, a wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle Corp. In her five-year tenure at Oracle, Ms. Lahey created Oracle's mobile product strategy and then orchestrated the development of new products to fulfill that strategy. Ms. Lahey als... Jan. 9, 2001 Reads: 7,054 |
You're reading a huge amount about wireless technologies in the press these days. Everywhere you look, somebody, somewhere, is doing something cool with their application and the world of WAP. The very fact that you're reading this magazine attests that you're at least toe dipping ... Jan. 9, 2001 Reads: 6,656 |
Wireless - what a stupid word. When all's said and done, what does it really mean? Is it just another word the computing industry has hijacked for its own ill-gotten gains? After some searching around I came up with a number of definitions for the infamous word. Jan. 9, 2001 Reads: 7,939 Replies: 1 |
It was with great anticipation that I began using the Blackberry. I was at JavaOne in San Francisco, where the device, now with a Java VM, was generating quite a buzz. All that aside, the question remained: Could it live up to its promise of e-mail anywhere? The answer was a resoundin... Jan. 9, 2001 Reads: 9,782 |
WBT's Jeremy Hill compares the first two books on WAP to emerge from the world's technical presses and comes down heavily in favor of one of them. Jan. 9, 2001 Reads: 8,316 |
In 1977 Bruce Scott, now president and CEO of PointBase, cofounded Oracle, where he was coauthor and coarchitect of Oracle 1, 2, and 3. Many in the industry still think of him as 'Scott/Tiger' - the original user name and password for the Oracle database, which still appears throug... Jan. 9, 2001 Reads: 9,202 Replies: 1 |
When we developed the Microsoft Mobile Explorer (MME), a dual-mode browser for use in mobile handsets, we wanted it to work with over-the-air Internet-standard HTTP and HTML protocols, as well as read content delivered via the Wireless Application Protocol. Microbrowser products sh... Jan. 9, 2001 Reads: 6,789 |
One night recently, Masanori Ishii picked up his i-mode phone to read e-mail from his contacts in Houston, only to be told the service was unavailable. 'It was the third time that week this had happened to me, so I knew the problem would be solved in a couple of hours,' Mr Ishii said... Jan. 9, 2001 Reads: 8,510 |
We're on the eve of the 3G rollout. But as network operators and equipment vendors get ready for this billions-of-dollars industry, the public's fear of radiation - real or imagined - is growing. Will this fear put a crimp in wireless plans? Dec. 28, 2000 Reads: 7,626 |
If a week is a long time in politics, imagine how long five years is, in Internet time. It's a lifetime. It's easy to demonstrate. All you have to do is think back just six short years, to 1995. In 1995 the Internet wasn't yet the business, consumer, and social tool it has now become... Dec. 28, 2000 Reads: 10,242 |
Drexel University, a cornerstone of higher education in the northeastern U.S., was once known as the Drexel Institute of Technology. Under the leadership of its current president, Constantine Papadakis, Drexel has launched an energetic strategic agenda with renewed emphasis on its maj... Dec. 28, 2000 Reads: 7,562 |
Luca Passani is an Italian IT professional living in Copenhagen, Denmark, where he works for Phone.com. With extensive experience in client-side and server-side scripting in Web technologies, Luca is the author of several technical articles about WAP and is one of the coauthors of Prof... Dec. 27, 2000 Reads: 12,487 Replies: 1 |
A few weeks ago I went to my local mall to buy a new cell phone. The old one looked as though it had been through some sort of war, so it was well past the time to replace it. I picked out a model I liked and went over to talk to a salesperson to select the monthly plan that was going... Dec. 26, 2000 Reads: 8,367 Replies: 1 |
Computer networks are rapidly becoming the backbone of large- and medium-sized organizations. Increasingly, organizations are depending on their networks for day-to-day operations. To maintain the health of their networks, companies spend large amounts of money acquiring expensive netw... Dec. 26, 2000 Reads: 7,696 |
Six months ago I convinced my father, a committed technophobe, to connect to the Internet; he wasn't impressed. Last month he bought a WAP phone; he still wasn't impressed. What is impressive is his new-found knowledge of HTTP error messages that could shame many a developer. He's now ... Dec. 26, 2000 Reads: 7,223 |
wML 1.1 is my chosen standard and ColdFusion 4.5.1 is my preferred development platform. I'm sure there are pros and cons for other versions and standard figures. Here I'll discuss my reasons for using WML and ColdFusion. Dec. 26, 2000 Reads: 8,240 |
We've come a long, long way since an American by the name of Perry M. Collins first envisioned a world connected by an overland telegraph line. That was back in the 1850s, and it took over a decade - as well as the commercial might of Western Union - to make Perry's vision a reality. U... Dec. 22, 2000 Reads: 10,314 Replies: 4 |
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