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Thomas Farely

Tom has produced privateline.com since 1995. He is now a freelance technology writer who contributes regularly to the site.

His knowledge of telecommunications has served, most notably, the American Heritage Invention and Technology Magazine and The History Channel.
His interview on Alexander Graham Bell will air on the History Channel the end of 2006.

Ken Schmidt

Ken is a licensed attorney who has worked in the tower industry for seven years. He has managed the development of broadcast towers nationwide and developed and built cell towers.

He has been quoted in newspapers and magazines on issues regarding cell towers and has spoke at industry and non-industry conferences on cell tower related issues.

He is recognized as an expert on cell tower leases and due diligence processes for tower acquisitions.

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May 02, 2001

Posted by Tom Farley & Mark van der Hoek at 12:20 AM

MIT's Technology Review; WAP Phones

MIT's Technology Review is an excellent magazine and available nearly everywhere in America, including many large supermarkets. The September/October issue features two good articles, a general piece on coming wireless services and a detailed story on the true inventor of television. Pick up a copy for some enjoyable reading. I have one point in passing, since the wireless article mentions WAP, or wireless applications protocol.

Many people write at length how web masters must code web pages differently, so that their sites are WAP compatible. Not necessarily, WAP is fairly friendly, thanks now to http://www.google.com. As I understand it, if you access a web page through Google.com, first finding it in their search engine, Google will then convert that web page into WAP form once you click on the link to view it. Neat, eh? It may not support every feature of the WAP protocol for web pages but I should think it handles enough. Let me know if you view TelecomWriting.com through a WAP enabled phone, I would love to hear a report.

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