Wireless Application Protocol. By Laura Lamb

Introduction Upon the advent of the mobile data marketplace came many limitations with minimal capabilities of handheld devices and wireless networks. In order to realize the vision of providing the same information services available via Internet on wireless terminals such as digital mobile phones, new standards had to be set that could control its dynamics into a suitable format. Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, and Unwired Planet initiated the WAP forum in 1997 in a collaborated effort to …

…www.iec.com). Will everyone rush out and buy a WAP phone, or hook up their personal communicator to the Internet? Not straight away. In my opinion, consumers are going to like and welcome WAP capabilities, provided that it works, and works quickly and reliably enough. References: WAP / WML Tutorial. Retrieved July 17, 2004 from http://www.w3schools.com/wap/default.asp Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). Retrieved July 17, 2004 from http://www.iec.org/online/tutorials/wap/