The convergence of the Internet, electronic commerce, and wireless technology has created the basis for the rapid global diffusion of mobile commerce. We believe that one approach to understand mobile commerce diffusion is to study the diffusion of digital mobile devices required in mobile commerce activities. Although prior research in technology diffusion has identified a set of variables tha...

Recent development of wireless technologies, networking infrastructure, and mobile devices has contributed to the rapid growth of mobile commerce (m-commerce). While e-commerce continues to impact the global business environment, the focus has been directed towards wireless mobile computing. Given this trend, telecommunications is perhaps the key to all interconnection, information systems, and...

The internet and the wireless technology have become more than just communication media. They are important business supporting tools, if not the business drivers. E-commerce and wireless e-commerce (or mobile commerce) have become the features in the global economy. They enable free flow of information among business players, increasing the speed and accuracy with which businesses exchange inf...

Companies are not going to invest into the development of innovative applications or services unless these can be charged for appropriately. Thus, the existence of standardized and widely accepted mobile payment procedures is crucial for successful business-to-customer mobile commerce. The acceptance of mobile payment procedures depends on costs, security and convenience issues. For the latter,...

M-commerce entails transactions conducted via mobile telecommunications networks using communication, information, and payment devices such as mobile phones or palmtop units. Geographic positioning and location capabilities are also being added to such networks and devices. Rather than using general-purpose browsers, customers accessing mobile commerce applications often rely on specific mobile...

The potential of the Internet has been expanded substantially by a new generation of mobile devices, opening the door for rapid growth of m-commerce. While the traditional PC access to the Internet continues to be vital for exploiting the advantages of the Internet, the mobile access appears to attract more people because of flexible accesses to the Internet in a ubiquitous manner. Accordingly,...

Users’ similarity mining in mobile e-commerce systems is an important field with wide applications, such as personalized recommendation and accurate advertising. Moving trajectories of e-commerce users contain much useful information, providing a very good opportunity for understanding the users’ interesting and discovering the similarity between mobile-device-holders. In this paper, we explore...

Mobile phones adoption and diffusion is a practical issue that has significant implications for e-commerce and m-commerce development. Examining the adoption of mobile phones from the well-developed theoretical foundation of innovation diffusion theory may clarify some significant factors that affect the adoption decision. Moreover, with the understanding of the influence sources of mobile phon...

The rapid growth of mobile telephony has fueled the expansion of the mo bile Internet as a foundation for mobile commerce. Proponents claim that mobile com merce will surpass electronic commerce in growth and scope, but there is as yet no commonly accepted framework for the study of interface design for mobile commerce. Using Rayport and Jaworski's 7C's?the seven design elements of a customer i...

INTRODUCTION M-commerce applications have evolved out of e-commerce applications, riding on the rapid advancement in mobile communication technologies in the past decade. The diffusion of applications on the Internet into the mobile computing environment has taken an accelerating pace ever since. Virtually all e-commerce and m-commerce applications rely on the provision of information retrieval...