Saturday, March 23, 2002
Online Shopping Set to Go Mobile
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 11:55 PM
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,90483,tk,dn032202X,00.asp
So what's this new-fangled "m-commerce" thing I keep hearing about? As I read this PCWORLD.COM article, I wonder if it's just a reprint from two years ago - we'd never know the difference, because the m-commerce ghost train is still off in the distance. Is 2002 the year it finally rolls into the station? And why do train analogies work so well at midnight?
"Electronic commerce conducted via mobile devices such as phones and PDAs will take off over the next few years to become a $25 billion market worldwide by 2006, according to a study released Thursday by Frost & Sullivan. By that time, mobile electronic commerce, or m-commerce, will account for 15 percent of the world's online commerce, according to a summary of the study."
So what's this new-fangled "m-commerce" thing I keep hearing about? As I read this PCWORLD.COM article, I wonder if it's just a reprint from two years ago - we'd never know the difference, because the m-commerce ghost train is still off in the distance. Is 2002 the year it finally rolls into the station? And why do train analogies work so well at midnight?
"Electronic commerce conducted via mobile devices such as phones and PDAs will take off over the next few years to become a $25 billion market worldwide by 2006, according to a study released Thursday by Frost & Sullivan. By that time, mobile electronic commerce, or m-commerce, will account for 15 percent of the world's online commerce, according to a summary of the study."
