Questions of protocol
13 September 2012
Wireless application protocol (Wap) technology can bring the news headlines to a mobile phone but, asks Malcolm Wheatley, how will the latest advance in telecommunications really affect purchasers?
The hype surrounding wireless application protocol (Wap) is growing by the day. Soon, runs the argument, we’ll be surfing the Internet from wherever we happen to be, using mobile phones and organisers similar to today’s palm-held ones. There’s even a trendy buzzword: “m-commerce”, where the m stands for mobile. Overall, observers reckon, the impact of Wap will be as...