Information Aggregation for Tai - lored Mobile Information

Kjell Sorme of Ericcson argues that the “mobile internet is more than making the Internet mobile...it will enable a whole new set of services that can be tailored to the location and individual preferences, needs and circumstances of the mobile user” (Sorme 2001). He describes three phases of mobile Internet development. The first is using the cell phone to provide network connection for laptop computers. The second “more critical wave” is taking the internet to mobile devices. In the mobile phone industry “internet enabled” refers to Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), or ‘WAP enabled’. WAP is a communication protocol specifically designed for wireless devices. It allows web pages to be displayed on mobile devices using a WAP browser that uses a version of Wireless Markup Language (WML). The third wave phase is the development of mobile content and applications centered on mobility: situation centric. ABSTRACT