Definitions for "WAP - Wireless Application Protocol"
A technology designed to provide users of mobile terminal with rapid and efficient access to the Internet.
It is a widely used set of protocols used on wireless devices such as mobile phones and PDAs. It operates much like the hypertext transfer protocol and standardizes the manner in which wireless devices are able to access parts of the Internet, such as e-mail and the Web.
A standard designed to allow the content of the Internet to be viewed on the screen of a mobile device such as mobile phones, personal organisers and pagers. WAP also overcomes the processing limitation of such devices. The information and services available are stripped down to their basic text format.