The
Internet Health Library is developing selected services for the WAP
(Wireless Application Protocol) Platform to be launched in October
2000.
The new service will enable fast access to
vital health information for mobile phone users and PDA users.
The WAP health services will include a
national directory of clinics & practitioners, natural first aid
solutions, travel health, jetlag assessment facility, sunscreen monitoring,
health food store directories, and much more.
Wherever you are in the UK, health information
will be instantly accessible...at your fingertips!
Practitioners, clinic and organisations based in
the UK are
invited to submit applications to be included on the new WAP service.
Please contact: wap@internethealthlibrary.com
About WAP
WAP is a technical approach enabling fast wireless data transfer. The
next stage growth in the internet is wireless transfer of data.
Technologies will enable extremely fast data transfer which will even
enable real time video links.
The number of mobile telephone users
increased by 5000% between 1998 - 1999 and the rate is set to continue.
There are currently over 600 million mobile telephone users and by the end
of 2000 it is estimated that there will be over 12.2 million who will be
using WAP-enabled devices and this will grow to 56 million by the end of
2001. Internet access and mobile data services are high on the
communications companies' agenda with plans in place for the introduction
of voting services, e-commerce and information access. Experts believe
that mobile data transfer will overtake landlines in the near future.
Whilst many companies have overlooked the importance of WAP technologies,
according to Internet.Works magazine (January 2000) "to start selling
via WAP's secure WTLS protocols take some re-engineering of your web site,
but building WAP sites from scratch is a far easier proposition". For
this reason we have ensured that HTML coding is developed alongside of WML
(Wireless Markup Language).
