E -Mobile

                          

                                                               
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Mobile E-commerce & Its Advantages

Mobile Commerce is any transaction, engaging the transfer of ownership or rights to use goods and services, which is started and completed by using mobile access to computer-mediated networks with the help of an electronic device. Japan and some European countries are much ahead of the United States in using of mobile commerce and mobile payments, and also these countries have alreadty become commonplace.As of March 2009, Japan had 50 percent more 3G subscribers than the United States. The utilize of the mobile technology as a payment gateway first begin in Helsinki, Finland in 1997, when a company owned by Coca-Cola installed two mobile-optimized transaction machines. And NTT DOCOMO, Japan’s zenith cell phone carrier, launched the first 3G network in 2001. Japanese mobile users are now able to use their phones for mainly daily transactions. Through Mobile Commerce, anyone can purchase a plane ticket and use the e-statement stored on your phone to check into your flight.Mobile Commerce: Ahead of Its Time, mobile phone users think that they would put together more purchases if the procedure was not so burdensome, products were easier to find and their devices supported secure credit card transactions. Web-enabled mobile phone users are much more probable to use their devices to get weather forecasts, read news, find movie times and bank online than to buy products.

Advantages of Mobile E-Commerce

The advantages of m-commerce (Mobile - Commerce) are:

• Providing wider reach

• Reducing transaction cost

• Streamline business processes

• Competitive pricing

• Reducing time to order

• The age of mobile shopping is here to stay, consumers can access millions of products at the palm of their hands and retailers can increase their reach and overall sales

• Use of graphics unlimited
• Unlimited bandwidth
• WAP and SMS unlimited to small number of characters and text.
• More functionality for mobile Internet over mobile phones and existing generation of handhelds than for mobile computers
• Small screens of most devices still unlimited types of file and data transfer
• The good news is that these mobile sites are an addition of your current contribution but they can also locate on their own
• The mobile sites can be foundation from the same database that your are performing now to make their management very straightforward
• New advanced mobile applications characteristically engage high-speed services being accessed by devices distantly, anywhere, at any time
• M-commerce requests to eradicate even further the intelligence of a consumer having to go to the business for products or services, or requiring to be skilled in multiple technologies or having to preparation whenever they want to contact a business using the Internet
• To allow the development of customer use of data options m-commerce applications and technology that have evolved quickly

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What is the mobile computing?
In the traditional computing environment it was necessary to come to the computer to do some work on it. All computers were connected to each other, to networks, servers, etc. via wires.

•Mobile Computing
–The first phase was to make computers small enough so they can be easily carried - Mobile devices–The second solution to the need for mobile computing was to replace wires with wireless communication media.
–The third phase was a combination of the first two, namely to use mobile devices in a wireless environment. Referred to as wireless mobile computing, this combination enables real-time connections between mobile devices and other computing environments.

Mobile computing - characteristics

. Mobile computing has two major characteristics that differentiate it from other forms computing   mobility and broad reach.

•Mobility implies portability based on the fact that users carry a mobile device everywhere they go. Therefore, users can initiate real-time contact with other systems from wherever they happen to be.
•Broad reach is the characteristic that describes the accessibility of people. They can be reached at any time.