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by Ralph Tegtmeier

WAP: "Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is an open, global specification that empowers mobile users with wireless devices to easily access and interact with information and services instantly."

If you want to check existing WML pages in your tread-of-the-mill web browser, you will probably like these WAP emulators and browsers:

YourWap's Wireless Companion < http://www.yourwap.com/ > Ericsson WAP Toolkit < http://www.ericsson.com/developerszone/ > Nokia WAP Toolkit < http://www.forum.nokia.com/developers/wap/wap.html > WinWAP Windows Based WML Browser < http://www.slobtrot.com/winwap/index.htm > Gelon < http://www.gelon.net/ >

Also on Gelon's resources site, read what you will need by way of devices and applications to develop in WML, the markup language for WAP devices: < http://www.gelon.net/dev/ >

More on WAP is available here: < http://www.allwap.com >

For a quick-an-dirty online WAP site generator check out: < http://www.wapdrive.net >

More WAP resources: AllWap/Wapped < http://www.allwap.com > < http://www.wapped.nl/links/ > Wap Service < http://www.wapservice.com/ > WebCab < http://www.webcab.de/ > WAPtastic/AnywhereYouGo < http://www.waptastic.com/application/default.asp > < http://www.anywhereyougo.com/ayg/ayg/Index.po >

Finally, here's a list of WAP search engines. While it doesn't specifically mention WAP, TechWeb reports that Inktomi (the world's largest, albeit least PR credited, search engine) is pushing into the wireless market with a vengeance: < http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000314S0004 > After both Alltheweb/FAST and Google have now joined in the fray, expect more major players to roll in soon.

FAST < http://wap.fast.no/ > GOOGLE < http://wap.google.com/ > WAPAW < http://wapaw.com/ > WAPLY < http://www.waply.com/ > WAPUSEEK < http://www.wapuseek.com/ > WAPWARP < http://wapwarp.com/ >

Last but not least, here's a newly launched search engine portal also featuring WAP engines - this one is updated frequently, so you may wish to bookmark it: < http://searchenginebase.com/ >

Ralph Tegtmeier is the co-founder and principal of fantomaster.com Ltd. (UK) and fantomaster.com GmbH (Belgium), a company specializing in webmasters software development, industrial-strength cloaking and search engine positioning services. He has been a web marketer since 1994 and is editor-in-chief of fantomNews, a free newsletter focusing on search engine optimization, available at: < http://fantomaster.com/fantomnews-sub.html > You can contact him at mailto:fneditor@fantomaster.com (c) copyright 2000 by fantomaster.com

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