One WAP issue which will increasingly attract the attention of the
e-commerce/e-business community is that not only is it about mobility but
also about LOCALITY. Route and travel guidance and allerting you to your
proximity to a shop or other service, will become important. Thus GIS meta
data could be a big issue,(possibly relevant to DC), possibly tied into
shopping information (perhaps not rel. to DC).
Mobile terminals in general will increasingly interact with their local
environment, using hort-range radio protocols such as Bluetooth. 'Guided
tours' of museums, libraries etc become possible.
A lot of this is context-dependent, so may be not DC but very relevant for
meta info in general.
Bill Whyte
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