That relationship moves to a new level on Sunday, when two cars from the Red Bull Cheever Racing team compete in the Indianapolis 500, armed with a cutting-edge Internet Protocol-based wireless system that gives the entire team access to a wealth of real-time information and communications during the race.

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The other big global player in sending mobile data through Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) is Vodafone-Airtouch, which just joined with Mannesmann in the world's biggest-ever merger.

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Integration with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directories and support of single sign-on prevents employees from going rogue with shared logins.

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But access hasn't become as prolific as protocol prophets once preached -- we're at the mercy of pay gates, passwords and bandwidth limitations, even today.

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Through use of a standard data protocol, OData, Microsoft offers a well-defined web interface for data access, including queries.

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The e-commerce platform that UBee plans to launch next month will rely on SOAP, for Simple Object Access Protocol, a technology standard based on using "envelopes" that retailers and uBee use to exchange information quickly enough to make these real-time offers.

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