Goodbye YourWAP, I'm glad I knew you  Pioneer of mobile email
bites the dust  Security for virtualized datacentres  Comment I
recently got an email telling me that YourWAP is closing at the
end of this month, and that if I've got anything important
stored there I need to retrieve it before it goes.  YourWAP was
a pioneer of mobile email. 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. It was
also one of the first to use WAP effectively.  The proposition
was simple - it was an email aggregator that polled your
existing POP3 accounts, but as well as Webmail it also offered
access to the aggregated email via WAP. This gave you a
lightweight and surprisingly fast view of your in-box, plus the
ability to read text email on even a fairly basic mobile phone.
Its designers at German mobile app developer O3sis had realised
- as did several other unsung heroes of WAP, such as those at
Kizoom who were behind the o