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Pioneer of mobile email goes POPsup, SMPTitsup, bang, gone
by Staff Writer | posted on 19 January 2007
A sad user of YourWAP reports that he "recently got an email" - one of the last. It was telling him that "YourWAP is closing at the end of this month, and that if you've got anything important stored there you need to retrieve it before it goes."
Reporter Bryan Betts describes YourWAP as "a pioneer of mobile email," and laments its passing: "In the days before BlackBerry - or at least, before BlackBerry hit Europe - it was one of the first services to make mobile email a practical proposition, and it was also one of the first to use WAP effectively."
Full death dirge at The Register. "I was sad to hear the news of its imminent death." Mourn...
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