M-Commerce

Hoping to elevate mobile Web browsing from its current status as a "second class experience," a massive technology consortium has promised to turn its focus to making Internet browsing from a hand-held device more convenient. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a group of some 350 technologies comp...

One of the first widespread mobile phone viruses has now been spotted in 20 countries worldwide, further proof to some that security issues threaten to stall the adoption of the types of robust wireless handsets and mobile services that will enable a mobile commerce industry to emerge. Finland-based...

Staking its claim to leadership in the converging worlds of mobile computing, Web browsing and cellular communications, Samsung has become the latest handset vendor to roll out a WiFi-enabled phone. Samsung said it will make its SPH-M4300 available in its home market of Korea later this month. In ad...

The mobile adult services market is set to reach US$5 billion by 2010, according to a new wireless Internet applications service report from Strategy Analytics. Analysts said fear of consumer backlash and government regulation is stalling wireless adult content growth stateside. Jupiter Research ana...

Mobile phone makers and carriers are capturing the lion's share of the buzz at the annual CeBIT trade show this week, with vendors rolling out new products aimed at accommodating the next generation of wireless services and the rise of mobile commerce. A slew of new and upgraded technology has been ...

Vodafone's Japanese unit plans to release a mobile phone next month that answers to motion commands, just the latest development in what analysts say will be an explosion of features for phones as carriers and cell phone makers look to push the envelope. The new phones, made by Sharp and distributed...

Back in early 2000, mobile commerce seemed to have sky-high potential. A global survey found that 61 percent of respondents imagined they soon would be using wireless devices as universal payment tools, and the analysts who compiled the survey predicted that overall revenue generated by m-commerce w...

WiFi, a technology that enables wireless Web access at speeds many times faster than a standard dial-up connection, is cropping up in coffee shops, airports and hotels. But despite WiFi's increasing convenience, m-commerce, once seen as a promising way to sell goods, is unlikely to be a boon for ret...

Trends are often difficult to get a handle on, especially those that gauge consumer sentiment. But I put a lot of stock in survey-driven news that consumers' interest in shopping via cell phone has plummeted. Such findings are disheartening, but they are not the end of the world for wireless commerc...

As wireless providers search for the right mix of services to spawn a boom in mobile commerce, they also must develop a data pricing strategy that clicks with customers. According to Yankee Group research director Adam Zawel, the practice of charging based on bytes or kilobytes of data baffles many ...

Few segments of e-commerce have been more over-hyped, and more disappointing, than mobile commerce. Yankee Group mobile analyst Adam Zawel told the E-Commerce Times that companies have failed to convince consumers of the worth of m-commerce. "There needs to be a reason to make a purchase using yo...