Mobile Commerce and Applications: An Exploratory Study and Review

Mobile commerce is enabling the development of additional revenue streams for organizations through the delivery of chargeable mobile services. According to the European Information Technology Observatory, the total amount of revenue generated by mobile commerce was reported to be less than {\pounds}9 million in the United Kingdom in 2001. By 2005 this had, at least, doubled and more recent industry forecasts project significant global growth in this area. Mobile commerce creates a range of business opportunities and new revenue streams for businesses across industry sectors via the deployment of innovative services, applications and associated information content. This paper presents a review of mobile commerce business models and their importance for the creation of mobile commerce solutions.Comment: Journal of Computing online at https://sites.google.com/site/journalofcomputing

Ubiquitous Computing Based Mobile Commerce : Toward the Ubiquitous Commerce

Mobile commerce is heading for advanced fourth generation (4G) mobile systems. However, rapid development of ubiquitous computing technology can implement and complement the 4G mobile systems. It enables anticipation that ubiquitous computing technology creates the new commerce, so called ubiquitous commerce. This paper analyzes the characteristics of mobile commerce service and ubiquitous computing service, and then extracts the core requirements for ubiquitous commerce. Moreover, this paper suggests technical requirements for the ubiquitous commerce. These requirements can lead the development of technology for the future and suggest the milestone that mobile commerce in present heads for

Mobile banking as business strategy: Impact of mobile technologies on customer behaviour and its implications for banks

Mobile Commerce is gaining increasing acceptance amongst various sections of the society. This growth can be partly traced back to technological and demographical developments that have been influencing important aspects of the socio-cultural behaviour in today's world. The need/wish for mobility seems to be the driving force behind Mobile Commerce in general. Mobile Banking, availment of bank-related financial services via mobile devices, builds a cornerstone of Mobile Commerce. An empirical survey of customer acceptance conducted within the frame of our research clearly reveals a major, growing interest in Mobile Banking. However, since the degree of interest and the willingness to pay vary for individual services, it seems to be necessary to design specific services taking the needs and wishes of relevant target groups into consideration. Banks ought to therefore employ mobile channels with a clear business-focus. This paper examines the opportunities for banks to generate revenues by offering value-added, innovative mobile financial services while retaining and even extending their base of technology-savvy customers. --Mobile Commerce,Mobile Banking,Mobile Financial Services,Multi-channel Strategy

The mobile commerce technologies: Generations, standards and protocols

Mobile Commerce has staged a remarkable come-back. Driven by the technological innovations in the field of telecommunications, it is showing signs of a healthy recovery. The collapse of the dot-com boom in 2001/2002 had dealt a severe blow not only to Electronic Commerce but also to Mobile Commerce, which was just about developing at that time. In addition to a general lack of customer demand for mobile, location-based, services, it suffered heavily under the technical deficiencies of end-devices, slow data transmission and unripe technological standards. These factors in turn had a negative impact on the customer acceptance of mobile services and whatever little demand was available, was rendered useless. Many of the environmental conditions have changed since then. Technology innovations have reduced many barriers to acceptance. Increasing globalization has led to more mobility and therefore to greater demand for mobile, ubiquitios services that can be consumed anytime, anywher. This paper examines different telecommunication technologies regarding their suitablilty and deficiencies. It provides an overview over the historical development of mobile technologies while pointing towards the expected future scenario. --Mobile Commerce,M-Commerce,UMTS,WLAN,3G

Mobile Commerce: A Rising Wave of Consumer Purchase Intention

Because of the commonness and extensive usage of online technology these days, mobile commerce is an emerging area of attraction for marketing research. Although there is a dearth of studies exploring the factors that influence on mobile commerce embracement and adoption through mobile applications in general, particularly the effect of mobile commerce adoption attitude using Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) remains uncharted. The exploration of the technology acceptance factors is quite challenging and demanding primarily due to the reason that online population is widely dispersed and diversified in terms of their dynamics. Still this area remains a venture of curiosity to the marketers due to magnetism in its potential. Current research assist marketers by providing an insight into the factors that explains this scenario and the results could be used to capitalize the fast growing online market. Three hypothesis strongly validated the effect of perceived trust, perceived value and social influence on mobile commerce adoption while perceived self-efficacy was found to have a little effect on mobile commerce adoption. Predominantly, it was found that Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) remains most effective predictor to mobile commerce adoption. Current research could be used to comprehend and take advantage of key psychological attributes mentioned in the study to upsurge the volume of existing mobile commerce market

Enhancing Consumer Experience through Mobile Commerce: Challenges and Opportunities

During this information technology era, mobile commerce is succeeding very easily especially Covid-19 pandemic timings. This article is mentioned about commerce, mobile, mobile commerce, users of e-commerce, Users of Mobile Commerce, Holistic Points, Classification of Mobile Commerce, Mobile Commerce Applications, Five Stages in Systems Development Life Cycle for mobile commerce applications, Data Flow Diagrams - Some general guidelines for developing DFDs, Why documentation is important for mobile development?.Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing models, Advantages of Cloud Computing, Disadvantage of Cloud Computing, Influence of cloud computing upon E-commerce, Advantage of cloud computing in E-commerce, All about The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Online Learning, Challenges of Mobile Commerce, E-Commerce will change in the next 5 years in India, Opportunities in (or applications of) M-Commerce, Application of M-Commerce, Opportunities for M-Commerce and Conclusion

Exploring Determinants in Deploying Mobile Commerce Technology: Amman Stock Exchange

The purpose of this research is to explore the critical determinants that affect the intention of the users to deploy mobile commerce technology in Amman Stock Exchange. This research applied TAM model using the following variables: perceived trust, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, social and cultural values, and economic issues. The result of the distributed 210 questionnaires to mobile commerce users in Amman Stock Exchange (Brokers and Investors), and 179 were returned correct and studied, reveal that perceived trust, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, social and cultural values have significant association with intention to deploy mobile commerce technology while economical issue is not significant. The results of the research indicate that TAM have capability in exploring critical determinants that affecting the intention to deploy mobile commerce technology in Jordanian marketplace, therefore ,further studies are recommended to explore the critical determinants of deploying mobile commerce technology in other economic sectors

Extending Knowledge Management to Mobile Workplaces

Knowledge and Knowledge Management (KM) are evolving into an increasingly eminent source of competitive advantage. However,for the time being, the potential of KM is usually limited to stationary workplaces. This excludes a multiplicity of mobile workers, many of them in charge of knowledge-intensive activities.This paper examines the capabilities and limitations of mobile technology usage in order to support KM. After a general overview of KM, the relevant mobile technology is introduced.Subsequently, the theory of mobile added values is employed to analyze the contributions of mobile technology for supporting KM in the different phases of the KM process. Especially the process of knowledge distribution is qualified to be supported through mobile technology.Knowledge Management; Mobile Commerce; Mobile Knowledge; Management; Mobile Business Processes; Mobile Added Values

Design and evaluation of M-Commerce applications.

yesRecent advances in wireless technology have increased the number of mobile device users and given pace to the rapid development and deployment of e-commerce to the mobile user. This new type of e-commerce, conducting transactions via mobile terminals, is called mobile commerce (mcommerce). Due to its inherent characteristics such as ubiquity, personalization, flexibility, and dissemination, mobile commerce promises business unprecedented market potential, greater productivity and higher profitability. With this in mind, it is perhaps not surprising that mobile commerce is growing much faster than its fixed counterpart. Unlike e-commerce, m-commerce is more personalized and there is a need for a novel approach to evaluating m-commerce applications. This paper examines the issues in designing mcommerce applications not only from a technical viewpoint but also from the end users¿ perspective

Mobile Apparel Shopping: Application to Innovation Theory

Our mobile devices have changed the way we think about apparel shopping. Today you can flip on your phone and buy a pair of jeans in under a minute. Mobile technology is becoming increasingly attractive as it converts traditional electronic commerce (e-commerce) into mobile commerce (m-commerce) (Min, Dong, & Chin, 2012) allowing consumers to conduct online transactions via devices such as smart phones and tablets