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WAP is Dead, Long Live WAP

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the ideas-before-their-time dept.

antimatt writes "Everyone knows WAP is dead. It was dead on arrival. Right? Wrong. WAP use, at least in the UK, is up 42% in the last year. Are we seeing postmortem twitching, or a phoenix rising from the wireless ashes?" While the first incarnation was pretty rough, WAP is slowly growing into what people had hoped the first version would be. Now if only it just lost the stigma attached to it.

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  1. omg lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I saw a nothing to see here move along.. it's gotta be fp record.. :)

  2. Ars Technica article on wap: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fr1st ps0t, holmes

    BSD DEAD

    WAP DEAD

    LINUX DEAD

    SLADHWOD TEAD

    You am teh FAIL!!!!! propz to gnaa

  3. What/Who is Dead? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A. WAP
    B. BSD
    C. Stephen King
    D. Mary-Kate Olsen

    Trollster-Pollster

  4. What?! by EvanED · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Everyone knows that random statements of "X is dead" are always to be taken seriously...

    BSD is dead.

  5. mo3 uP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    can be like the channel tO sign I type this. want them there. rule)s are This fly They looked since we made the

  6. Re:Where's the f'ing CONTENT? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you like to drink my jism, you can get it fresh. It lacks the fishy taste, but some prefer it that way.

  7. Spamshares by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    After a cursory scan of groupshares and artlu's homepage, it is more like a scam-wannabe. Some strange inconsistencies I've noticed: artlu recommends Ameritrade Apex on his site, which requires either 10 trades a month or an account holding $100,000+. He says he uses it himself. In his laughable "trading manifesto" he also says not to day trade with less than $40,000, BUT he is having trouble finding venture capitalists for his site. Why would someone who (presumably) has those sorts of resources be having trouble getting funding? Given that, the typos, the site bugs, the misused jargon the lack of a clear plan, it's no stretch to conclude that artlu: * is a spammer * has no professional experience in finance or web design * is trying to pass off superficial knowledge as expertise * will probably try to apply to B-school with "founder of an investment company" on his app, and will succeed. * will continue to post on /. wherever he can conceivably tie in his site, no matter how irrelevant

  8. Fuck George Bush..... by tufflove · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My grandpa didn't fight in WW2 so that assclown could screw this country. George Bush- He's got his, and he wants yours.....