This appendix lists a number of mobile commerce services running or announced at the time of writing. Each entry contains a brief description and a URL where further information can be found on the Web.

This is not an exhaustive guide to mobile commerce services, but a selection of leading service providers and useful demonstrations. Some of the resources listed in the directory are themselves directories, and these give wider coverage of the growing population of available services.

The directory is regularly updated on this book&s Web site at http://www.verista.com/mobile/

Service Directories and Search Engines

Awooga http://www.awooga.com/

Directory of rated WAP sites, also email and bookmark services

Gixom http://www.gixom.com/

Catalogue of WAP sites

Mopilot http://www.mopilot.com/

Searchable directory of wap sites; company also offers WinWAP, a WAP microbrowser for Windows; Web site also shows statistics of the mobile browser types being used to access the site

Orktopas http://www.orktopas.com

Search engine for WAP sites

VoiceXMLCentral http://www.voicexmlcentral.com

VoiceXML search engine and community

wapaw.com http://www.wapaw.com/

WAP site directory

Mobile Portals and Community Services

CNN http://www.cnn.com/mobile/demo/

Web-based demonstration of CNN Mobile with a mobile phone

Genie http://www.genie.co.uk/

Mobile portal for U.K. digital cell phones. Web site includes free text messaging to any U.K. phone.