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Wireless Web 2000 Conference
    

     Exploring WAP Business Opportunities: Putting the Internet in Your Pocket

Monica Hamilton
Global Director, Strategic Partnerships
Nokia

Description:
As a global director of Nokia’s WAP strategic partnership program, Monica Hamilton is one of Nokia’s leading Wireless Application Protocol experts. At Wireless Web 2000, Ms. Hamilton will address the following subjects in a half day session on Monday, March 27.

Evolving Toward a "Mobile Information Society"

  • Video – "Mobile Information Society"
  • The impact of wireless and the Internet
  • The adoption of mobile technologies – GPRS and EDGE – the Road to 3G
  • Mobile access to all types of information
  • Wide variety of form factors
  • Cool announcements and hot issues in wireless

Building a Bridge: WAP

  • WAP: a non-proprietary open protocol to bring Internet and Intranet information to digital mobile phones and other wireless terminals. WAP background and mission.
  • What is the difference between Phone.com’s "WAP" and true WAP?
  • Developing WAP Applications – Successful applications and case studies
  • WAP for the Enterprise

The New Data Service Market – WAP Business Opportunities

  • Moving into the mainstream with new "killer applications" including electronic postcards, infotainment, electronic payment, multimedia e-mail.
  • Investment requirements- updating radio access to include GPRS packet data. Building a packet-based IP backbone for new services.
  • Security, security, security – do you need it? What is enough? Who should be responsible?
  • Video – "3G Wireless"
  • The evolution of wireless data: On the Road to 3G. High Speed Circuit Switched Data and GPRS and how this technology will affect devices and applications.
  • Advantages of GPRS (does not disturb existing infrastructure, providing "always connected" services, etc.)

WAP Services– What are they really like to use?

  • A variety of WAP demos on Nokia handsets.
  • Perhaps a showing of wireless browser-enabled devices…?
  • What does the future hold? (Wearable computing?)

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