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This link: http://www.4k-associates.com/4K-Associates/IEEE-L7 -WAP-BIG.html may be useful.

Hahahaha, exactly what I thought! It was a total sales pitch. I feel as if the 3-4 minutes spent reading that article were stolen from my life. The author's history on his site reflects his phone company bias.

Perhaps he should have read the article by 4k Associates a little more closely and he wouldn't have cofounded a company on a dying "standard" and have a need to create self-promoting propaganda.

Jayson

• Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox -- WAP Backlash
  
• The Harm of the Wireless Application Protocol (patents inhibiting WAP and some good anti-WAP links)
  
  • The WAP Trap
    
  • WAP - The Patent Problem
    
  • W* Effect Considered Harmful
    
  • Attacks Against The WAP WTLS Protocol
    
  • Underwhelmed by WAP - Impressions from the coalface
    
  • WAP Lash
    
• It really stands for 'What a Pain'
  

  
  
  The issues raised include:

  • WAP isn't patent free
  • Not an open standard ($27000 entrance fee)
  • WAP reinvents a large part of open internet standards, resulting in immature protocols with the associated security problems
  • WAP aims for the lowest common denominator rather than allowing for growth in mobile web browsing

These patent claims may simply be speeding up WAP's demise.

Wap is like Windoze, the demo is nice but it can't deliver on it's promise ... Read this for further details.