| |
Exploring WAP Business Opportunities: Putting the Internet in Your Pocket
Monica
Hamilton
Global Director, Strategic Partnerships
Nokia
Description:
As a global director of Nokias WAP strategic partnership program,
Monica Hamilton is one of Nokias 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.coms
"WAP" and true WAP?
- Developing WAP Applications Successful applications and
case studies
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?
- 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?)
Go to Agenda Page
|