Luca Passani, a Technical Advisory Board Member of of WBT, is Tools Development Manager for Openwave Systems, where he has led the OUI project. Luca has a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Pisa and several years of experience in Web development in Scandinavia. Over the past few years Luca has been working almonst exclusively with WAP. He is the author of several technical articles about WAP and WAP-related programming techniques and is a coauthor of "Professional WAP" (Wrox Press, 2001).
Last year, I was telling Wireless Business & Technology (volume 1, issue 1)
readers that poor usability was keeping a great technology (WAP) from taking
off. At the same time, things were changing, so I encouraged developers to
keep treading that WAP path. One year later, it's time to look at the WAP
landscape again, draw some conclusions, and show you a new product that will
blow your mind.
Let's start with a rundown on what's happened since last year: Openwave has
released and licensed its new GUI browser (mobile browser 5.0; internally we
call it V5). Phones with the new browser provide a superior user-experience
when compared to their mostly textual predecessors. Siemens S45 is the first
device running V5 available on the market. M-Services is here. GSMA is
backing... (more)
Creating a wireless application that works on as many devices as possible is
not difficult, it's useless! If you invest a huge amount of resources today,
chances are that a new device will ship tomorrow and you'll need to tweak
your application again...unless you use WURFL and its framework.
Fragmentation of the Wireless Platform
Each and every wireless technology (with the possible excepti... (more)
With the advent of Phoneware and with V7 in particular, there is now a much
richer mobile phone platform to deploy content for. What does this mean for
handset manufacturers, carriers, and developers?
When friends and acquaintances ask who I work for, I say Openwave and observe
the perplexed look on their faces. I am then quick to mention that our
business is all about WAP, MMS, and wirel... (more)
Luca Passani, a Technical Advisory Board Member of of WBT, is Tools Development Manager for Openwave Systems, where he has led the OUI project. Luca has a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Pisa and several years of experience in Web development in Scandinavia. Over the past few years Luca has been working almonst exclusively with WAP. He is the author of several technical articles about WAP and WAP-related programming techniques and is a coauthor of "Professional WAP" (Wrox Press, 2001).
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