1) Amazon.com - offers online shopping, electronic payments, database access and the main URL is at http://Amazon.com with the the mobile wap URL is at http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/lp.html
2) eToys.com is another website which offers also online shopping, electronic payments, database access and its WAP site has been downsized since 2002. eToys.com has filed for Ch. 11
since last year and its assets is now being acquired by possibly ToysRus.
3) Expedia.com - is a online travel website that offers booking services for discounted or last minute airticket, hotels and car rentals. The mobile wap site in US is already shut down. The UK WAP site is still accessible (http://www.expedia.co.uk/daily/wml/default.asp?tpid=1)
4) ebay is obviously supporting e-commerce, electronic payments, with various database, but its mobile website is one of very few that is still operational with this URL http://m.ebay.com
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Sidenote: WAP Sites - WAP is really old tech (Circa 1999-2001). Even for major content aggregator or search enginers like http://wap.google.com and http://mobile.nytimes.com all used to work well but why are we still studying WAP sites anyway. It's hard to get working WAP sites in 2009 (ebay is very exceptional). WML is so shortsighted that at one stage every venture capital company place one of their eggs in a company that somehow "sells" or "had" a mobile gateway that handles WML.
In addition to the 4 business options, I beg to differ. Shouldn't perhaps we should investigate instant messaging or some form or store-n-forward messaging. There are a lot of websites that now offers "outsourced" interactive chat as a pre-sales or post-sales support. What about ICQ the good old ("Oook Oooh") .. the predecessor of MSN or AOL AIM or Yahoo Messenger or Skype or Google Talk or Facebook Chat.
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