AGENCY.COM's Asian Affiliate Launches Wireless Innovation; The EDGE Releases First Browser for Mobile Devices.SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 1999-- The EDGE Consultants, the Singapore-based affiliate of AGENCY.COM, today announced the release of a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. ) browser for the Palm Computing and Windows Platform called the WAPman(TM). The EDGE Consultants are the first to globally release such a WAP browser for the Palm Computing Platform See platform. . WAP is a worldwide standard for providing Internet communication and advanced telephony services to mobile phones, two-way pagers, personal digital assistants and other wireless devices. "WAP provides a powerful medium to access information and services from mobile handheld devices like PDAs, cellular handphones and other two-way mobile messaging devices. Since WAP is independent of any underlying standard and is scaleable to different devices, developers can now gain access to the entire wireless user community," said Dinesh Singh Dinesh Singh was an Indian politician. He served as a Member of Parliament on several occasions and twice served as the foreign minister of India. Birth and Early Life He was born to Raja Avadesh Singh of Kalakankar, an erstwhile Indian Princely State on 19 July 1925. Bhatia, managing director of The EDGE Consultants. "WAP will enable the development of content, terminals and infrastructure for the second Internet, which we term the 'MobiNet'." "With the WAPman(TM), there is a potential of making services like mobile banking, trading and commerce for mobile wireless devices available at the tip of your fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. ," said Chan Suh, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of AGENCY.COM. "We are very proud of the work that our team in Singapore has provided not only for the company, but more importantly for the further development of communication in this era." The EDGE has already begun to collaborate with the AGENCY.COM London and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of teams to offer this software to their clients. To assist developers in producing WAP applications and services, The EDGE has also released a WAPman(TM) for Windows that provides an environment for developers to run applications on a PC-based simulator. The beta release See beta version. of the WAPman(TM) is available for download free-of-charge at www.virtuacom.com/wap for a limited time, after which the software will be released as shareware and licensed to wireless device manufacturers, telecommunication companies and WML (Wireless Markup Language) A tag-based language used in the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). WML is an XML document type allowing standard XML and HTML tools to be used to develop WML applications. It evolved from Openwave's HDML, but WML is not a superset of HDML. content providers. About the EDGE Consultants: The EDGE Consultants is Singapore's leading online e-business service provider, offering strategic, creative and technology services to clients. Its core businesses include Internet services, broadband and e-commerce applications and wireless/mobile value-added services. Clients include local companies, government-linked organizations and multinational corporations
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