Tag: WAP

In an online tech blogosphere dominated by news of the latest iThis or DroidThat, where mentions of '4G' have started to show up long before any international organization actually defined the term, it's easy to forget that the majority of people in the world use featurephones. Phones that, more often than not, don't come with full-fledged mobile web browsers. They do, however, have WAP browsers. ...

By harnessing the power of the cloud, HP Labs India has just revolutionized Internet access for some 300 million mobile phone users. It's called SiteonMobile, and as the name suggests, it's all about compressing the Web experience into simple SMS- and voice-driven interaction. It works by 'packaging' popular interaction on websites into 'tasklets' that can be executed via SMS or interactive ...

Its 2007, and we don't have flying cars yet, but we do now have the abilities to buy items via our mobile devices. Ok, so it's not totally futuristic, but nonetheless it's a step towards the future. Google has announced that Google Checkout buyers can now make fast, secure purchases using mobile devices straight from any WAP enabled Checkout merchant. The process involved in purchasing is a little ...