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Rossman is the guy behind WAP, or wireless application protocol. Like packet switching or HTML, it doesn't sound like much, but it's vitally important to the future of the Internet. WAP lays out the rules for squeezing the best of the Net onto that Nokia (or Ericsson or Motorola) in your pocket. Rossman left his native Paris, picked up an M.B.A. at Stanford, worked on the original Apple Macintosh, started three companies and sold one to AT&T before even thinking about WAP. But his best move was attending a 1994 wireless convention in Santa Clara, Calif., where...
...began a fourth company, phone.com and spent the next few years getting wireless providers and firms like Microsoft to sign up to the WAP standard. They had to. WAP was the only game in town at a time when the Net and cell-phone usage were exploding. Last month phone.com exploded too, shelling out $6 billion for mobile-mailbox giant software.com And since every piece of software on the Net will have to be rejiggered to conform to the WAP standard, Rossman still has a lot of work to do if he's going to distract cell-phone users from...
...addition to Symbian, the telecommunications industry has formed two other alliances to improve the usability of wireless devices. One of them, called the WAP Forum (for Wireless Application Protocol), is designing special browsers to bring Internet data to mobile phones, while a group named Bluetooth is trying to set a universal standard for radio communications between smart devices like palm computers and mobile phones. Interestingly, Microsoft has not joined either group...
...first victimized by a cappella music as an innocent high school student. Visits to my school from several campus a cappella groups, from Bowdoin, Columbia, and Yale made me drowsy and nauseous. From the first "doo-wap," I found the music boring and all the songs the same...
Moreover, Willis argues, WAP's tactics confirm traditional and puritanical notions of womanhood that are in themselves degrading and disempowering to women...