Achieving a better rank online is often costly. Is the effect of ranking different for mobile devices and traditional PC? This study empirically examines the ranking effect across different device types in an ecommerce environment. With over 4 million observations from Tweaker.net, the largest shopbot in Netherlands, we estimated the ranking effect between mobile and PC. Surprisingly, and contr...

Mobile agents raise security issues such as the protection of platform/host that runs the mobile agent against attacks which can harm or use its resources without permission, and another is the need for protection to guard mobile agents and their supporting systems against the malicious attacks from a variety of intervening sources that might alter information it carries and processes when it v...

Online word-of-mouth (WOM) has been studied extensively by electronic commerce researchers, particularly in the realm of online product reviews. As mobile computing becomes more and more common, difference in navigation and the ability to foster focus may lead to changes in the way in which consumers read and react to mobile product reviews compared to online reviews. We use research related to...

This paper examines power structures that make E-Commerce adoption amongst Small and Medium Enterprises in least developing countries a daunting task. The study adopts structuration theory as a lens, focusing specifically on structures of domination. The results indicate that at organizational level, lack of management support was the reason. However this was caused by government’s reluctance t...

In recent years, mobile commerce is developing rapidly because of the popularity of mobile devices. However, for the difficulty of the mobile device input, the users of the e-commerce websites usually don’t log on the website when they are browsing, which resulting in a situation that a large number of website visitors are anonymous users. In order to increase sales revenue and expand market sh...

This paper investigates how mobile agents can securely collect information, protect the collected information against untrusted hosts, and how they can digitally sign transactions in an untrusted environment. We present an agent-based scenario for mobile commerce and discuss techniques using multiple agents that have been implemented to provide security in this scenario. The underlying techniqu...

The emergence and popularity of 2G and 3G cellular networks as well as the high market penetration of mobile devices have created strong demands for introducing new applications in the area of mobile commerce (MCommerce). M-Commerce deals with selling goods, services, and content, including related functions like advertising and payment transactions, over a cellular network, and hence follows s...

In this paper, a Shopping Information Agent System (SIAS) is built based on mobile agent technology. It sends out agents to di erent hosts in an electronic marketplace. The agents collect and report information such as prices and availabilities about products speci ed by users. Snapshots of the system in use are shown. Security is a major problem of mobile agent systems, especially when money t...

Mobile Phone has been widely used in the world and adopted in different application areas involved with SMS has been evolved for downloading logo, ring-tones, advertisement, security notes, and location based system. This paper describe a service that further extends the functionality of SMS, a prototype named as “SMS Credit” is developed that allows customers to perform electronic payment usin...