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WAP Popularity Breaks Records
News Some mobile phones can also browse conventional HTML Web pages, but WAP browsers are built into even the least expensive handsets. Mobile phone browser pages using the WAP standard hit record numbers in January, with 1.2 billion page impressions...
[March 8, 2004, 12:45]
WAP 2.0: Fearsome Features
News In an ideal situation, the Web server dishes out WML content solely to be displayed on WAP browsers. WAP's primary objective is to provide an open standard for optimised access via a mobile device to the Internet or intranet.
[July 3, 2002, 15:29]
WAP Forum CEO: Eye2Eye - Part 2
News But the new versions of Sprint phones that are being sold have dual-mode browsers in them that will work with HDML and with WML [WAP Markup Language], because what we're moving towards is a standards world.
[May 31, 2000, 11:55]
Handheld Programming: A Hot Ticket To Success
News Some of the popular wireless browsers include Pocket Internet Explorer for the Microsoft Pocket PC operating system; WAP (wireless application protocol), used by most of the major cell phone manufacturers; UP, developed by Phone.com; I-mode...
[January 29, 2001, 16:22]
Palm WAP Browser Hits The Net
News Declan Lonergan, director of wireless services at Strategy Analytics, believes that the large installed base of the Palm organisers could mean that WAP browsers adapted for the Palm "should have a role to play" in driving the uptake of WAP services.
[January 6, 2000, 10:53]
Building 'Usable' WAP Applications
White Papers Building usable WAP applications is not simple. Wireless devices have many limitations, and the average user of a WAP application is not technically oriented (and possibly not even used to the Internet).
[December 1, 2004, 2:00]
Siemens S45 review
Reviews The S45 uses Openwave's WAP 1.2 browser, which features improved security and a slightly enhanced interface compared to the 1.1 browsers seen on most WAP phones. Pressing any of the numeric keys acts as a shortcut to the relevant WAP page bookmark...
[October 2, 2001, 0:00]
Opera Mini Racks Up One Billion Page Views
News It shows that people don't want expensive WAP content or to be limited in walled gardens, which will be an eye-opener for the mobile industry," Sivertsen added. Sivertsen said that slow download speeds could be caused by mobile operators using the...
[August 8, 2006, 17:30]
Opera Heads For Wireless Mainstream
News Users, the industry, everybody wants the the full Web, not WAP. Opera Software may control only a tiny fraction of the market for desktop Web browsers, but it is making steady headway with its wireless browsers, which use a technology called Small...
[October 29, 2003, 16:30]
Handspring VisorPhone review
Reviews Only the Blazer browser is worthy of mention because it allows you to view Web sites while connected through a WAP gateway. However, given that most users will only have 9.6Kbit/s of bandwidth, you are advised to stick to WAP sites (which Blazer is...
[August 30, 2001, 0:00]
Startup Spotlight: QAZ.com
News I'm currently in discussions with one of the digital TV systems, and am also talking to one of the major WAP players about a WAP linkage to QAZ. Registered users will also have a cookie in their browsers, so that we can detect how people are coming...
[May 12, 2000, 13:58]
Channels And Feeds
Downloads You can publish all of your channels in html, rss and wml (wap) format for normal and mobile Internet browsers. This program is browser add-in for IE (browser plug-in for Internet Explorer 5.x,6.x,7.x versions).
[October 9, 2005, 19:46]
A Year Ago: Palm Still Handheld King
News The Novatel and Omnisky announcements were the biggest news for the Handspring Visor platform but communications devices, such as cell phones and WAP browsers should be out by the end of the year. Handspring has generated a lot of buzz around its...
[June 28, 2001, 6:05]
Palm Still Handheld King
News The Novatel and Omnisky announcements were the biggest news for the Handspring Visor platform but communications devices, such as cell phones and WAP browsers should be out by the end of the year. Handspring has generated a lot of buzz around its...
[June 28, 2000, 8:26]
Opera's Stock Market Debut Goes Like A Song
News The WAP browsers built into most handsets are only capable of displaying pages specifically built for mobile phones. Norwegian browser maker Opera made its debut on the Oslo Stock Exchange on Thursday, with shares rising slightly in morning trading.
[March 11, 2004, 10:40]
Europe To Get Microsoft Smartphone Before US
News Among its PDA-like features are Web and WAP browsers, digital music player, USB, IrDA and serial connectivity and a Multimedia Card/Secure Digital Card slot for memory expansion. Microsoft's Smartphone 2002 software will make its debut in a matter...
[March 19, 2002, 12:58]
Microsoft Smartphone Deals Out A Pack Of Games
News Among its PDA-like features are Web and WAP browsers, digital music player, USB, IrDA and serial connectivity and a Multimedia Card/Secure Digital Card slot for memory expansion. Microsoft is giving the first glimpse of the applications for its...
[April 18, 2002, 15:14]
Microsoft Smartphone Ships To Developers
News Among its PDA-like features are Web and WAP browsers, digital music player, Java support USB, IrDA and serial connectivity and a Multimedia Card/Secure Digital Card slot for memory expansion. Sendo has begun offering developers an early version of...
[June 5, 2002, 16:32]
Eye2Eye: Wireless Hero Tunes In To The Future
News What we're trying to do with Symbian is connect all of those users to the Internet through WAP, small browsers and a whole lot of other technology. In fact, if the analysts and observers of this industry have any foresight at all, this South...
[February 22, 2000, 13:10]
Comdex: Tracking The Product Trends
News Most digital phones are now Internet-enabled and you can count on any mobile phone shown at Comdex being Web-ready -- look for early talk about dual-mode browsers that can handle WAP and HTML content and convergent phone/PDA modules.
[November 13, 2000, 8:49]
