What is WAP?
Introduction The wireless telecommunication and the Internet are rapidly growing industries that are gaining more and more customers every day. The WAP intention is to combine these two markets and answer the new demands in this field. These reasons and more driven some of the largest vendors to unite and create the WAP Forum, the standardizing organization of the WAP. (More details at http://www.wapforum.org/) WAP specifies an application framework and network protocols for wireless devices such as mobile phones, pagers and personal digital assistants. WAPs specifications extend existing mobile networking technologies such as wireless networking standards and extend some Internet technologies such as XML, scripting and content formats. Wireless hand-held devices preset a more constrained computing environment and platforms, compared to desktop computers which most of the Internet technology was developed for. The hand-held devices tend to have less powerful CPUs, less memory, very res
