Contents
Part A: What is M-Commerce? 2
Part B: Terminologies & Standards 2
Part C: Features & Advantages of M-Commerce 3
Part D: Services 3, 4
Part E: Limitations of M-Commerce 4
Part F: Conclusion 4
Part G: References 5
What is Mobile Commerce?
M-commerce (mobile commerce) is the buying and selling or transaction of goods and services through wireless devices such as cellular phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs).
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Simply, any e-commerce done through wireless devices (e.g. mobile phones) over any network especially the internet.
Some Terminologies & Standards Used in M-Commerce
 GPS:
Global Positioning System
A system of satellites and receiving devices used to locate positions on the Earth
 PDA:
Personal Digital Assistant
It’s a handheld wireless computer.
 SMS:
Short Messaging Service
Enables us to send simple text messages.
 EMS:
Enhanced Messaging Service
Enables us to send simple melodies, images, sounds, animations and formatted text.
 MMS:
Multimedia Messaging Service
Enables us to send multimedia messages.
 WAP:
Wireless Application Protocol
It is an international standard for mobile internet access.
 Smart Phone:
Internet-enabled cell phones
A combination of a mobile phone and a PDA.
 GPRS:
General Packet Radio Service
One of the latest advancements in wireless data. It is used in GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) for transferring data in packets.
Features & Advantages of M-Commerce
Mobility
Users can carry cell phones or other mobile devices anywhere.
Reachability
With a cell phone a user can be contacted anywhere anytime.
Convenience
These devices can store data and have advance features and are easy to use.
Instant Connectivity
Users can connect instantly and easily to the internet through their wireless devices anytime anywhere.
Location-Based Services
By knowing interests of a user sellers can send user-specific or location-specific advertising messages.
Mobile Services
Some services offered in m-commerce are:-
Entertainment
• Music
• Games
• Graphics
• Video
Communications
• Short Messaging
• Multimedia Messaging
• Advertising Messaging
• E-mail
• Video – Conferencing
Transactions
• Banking
• Shopping
• Auctions
• Booking & Reservations
Information
• News
• Sports
• Jokes
• Directory Services
• Maps
• Traffic and Weather
• Stock Exchange
Limitations of M-Commerce
 Limited storage capacity of devices
 Hard to browse sites
 Small size of mobile devices (screens, keypads etc.)
 Insufficient bandwidth
 Power consumption limitations
 Poor reception in some places (like tunnels)
Conclusion
Within a few years, there will be well over a billion mobile phone users worldwide and the majority of mobile phones will be connected to the Internet.
Mobile is the first order priority device for access because people are connecting with others, finding entertainment, and doing business—all with smart phones. The prices of mobile phones are never over $1,000 in today’s world. They are affordable and accessible. As the result of the changes the worldwide and national business environment has undergone, people own 1-2 cell phones on average. However, the mobile markets in US seems to have been saturated.
It has been observed across many studies that members of each rank—oldest, middle, youngest or single children—tend to have similar personalities as members of the same rank (Ernst & Angst, 13-16). It can be presumed that birth order will have an effect on all aspects of life, specifically interpersonal relationships.
You may be asking yourself ' Is birth order an actual thing?'. With a fair chunk of research over ten years old and counting, most of this research done by doctors, psychologists, and professors (Dr. Kevin Leman, Catherine Salman, Dr. Ronald W. Richardson) it is quite obvious that this is an actual thing. With so much hype on this topic, one thing we need to think about is how do we judge differences between children? How do we justify generalizing that the oldest is responsible, the...
Telecommunications gained mainstream attention in the early 90’s; however the initial key market was business men and women, who used their phones whilst being on the move and so allowing them to communicate with their companies with ease. Though in the modern era, telecommunication went through segmentation in the market trends, and now in this day and age it would be difficult to find someone who does not own some form of mobile technology. Many phone providers battle to provide the best service for their customers (Figure 1).
Does being the eldest child make people highly intellectual, people pleasing, perfectionists? Are the middle children always impatiently competing for parental attention by rebelling against the rules? Are all last-born children the spoiled, selfish, favorites? Birth order, a highly controversial topic, is defined as the dynamics of an individual’s place in the family compared to that of their siblings. Birth order has been in a fiery discussion for over one hundred years; some say it’s the very foundation of each one of our personalities, while others claim that the margin of error is just too wide for these coincidental patterns to bear any meaning.
“How Your Birth Order Influences Your Life Adjustment”, an article written by Lucille K. Forer is a nice article which I do really agree with her about birth order. She described nicely through her article about only child, the oldest child, the middle child and the youngest child. I think all her descriptions are very accurate.
The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) uses the Internet as a gateway for the transmission of the protocol. WAP has brought the Internet and the sub-services that it provides right into our lives as we are on the move. WAP brings us information right to the screen of our mobile phone.
The history of computers initially started with humans using tools like pebbles and notches in sticks to count objects. The human aspect of computers is that they wanted a way to do calculations, which includes adding and multiplying multiple numbers. The manual calculator was one of beginning stages of computer history, even though humans were the ones who had to perform the calculations. The manual computer had the abacus, which was a frame that contains beads mounted on rods. This technology was used in Rome, Greece, India, China, and Japan.
Type the first e-commerce that is in between the business and the business involving transactions between two or more businesses or companies where often one party is a supplier to the other party. For example, soy sauce manufacturers will interact with a supermarket in the process of ordering, delivery and pay for the order bottles of soy sauce .Of e-commerce, namely the second between the consumer business involves transactions between the seller of a product such as a supermarket that sells products to final consumers are people who ordered one or two bottles of ketchup through
The history of the computer goes back hundreds of years. From the abacus through the modern era the evolution of computers has involved many innovative individuals. It was out of this desire to innovate many fascinating tabulating machines developed. The modern computer, therefore, evolved from an amalgamation of the genius of many individuals over a long period of history. Many people shaped the world by making the efforts to develop technology.
I am a last born of three sisters and the birth order for the youngest mostly fits me. We learned last week that birth order can affect your personality. Some different traits that birth order states is that youngest children are not smart with money, cheerful, and rebellious. I feel like most of the characteristics of youngest children apply to me but there are definitely some that don't Also the book says that youngest children are more likely to be prostitutes. Obviously I hope not to become a prostitute, that trait was the one that my whole group pretty much disagreed with. As the youngest at times I feel like I’m behind my sisters’ shadows. They succeed and like my parents always said you have big shoes to fill do your best.
E-commerce or electronic commerce is carrying out business communications and transactions through computers and over networks. It involves buying and selling of goods and services through digital communication. E-commerce also includes transactions on the World Wide Web and the Internet and means such as electronic funds transfer, smart cards and digital cash. E-commerce covers outward facing processes that interact with customers, suppliers and external partners such as sales, marketing, delivery, customer service, purchasing of raw materials and supplies for production.
A person’s gender, age, place of birth, accent, manners, etc., are the matters people take into account when describing or evaluating an individual. Birth order appears to be one of these matters as well. Birth order, as used in this paper, indicates a child’s place in the family. Birth order has an advantage of being easier to check than other characteristics. This type of study makes it possible to ask a person about their siblings without offending or taking too much of their time. Some individuals tend to determine the birth order of others simply by observing their behavior. Parents have a tendency of stereotyping their children according to their birth order. Thus, birth order brings up variations in the way the parents treat their children. Differences in parental attitudes and behaviors, in turn, greatly influence a child’s personality. Parental attitudes and behaviors refer to the way parents treat their children with regard to a child’s birth order. Although birth order and parental attitudes and behaviors tend to influence a child’s personality, a child’s place in the family does not explain everything about that child. Whether a child happens to be a firstborn, a lastborn, or somewhere in between, parents need to become aware of stereotyping by looking beyond it, and attempting to treat each child equally and uniquely.
Computers are probably the most important invention of this century if not of all time. Right now people use computers for just about everything in the world and they are becoming a necessity in peoples’ lives just as many other new technologies. To say you cannot use a computer this day and age is almost like saying you are illiterate. In order for computers to function and be accessible to people there must be applications or instructions for the computer. In order to make these applications one must write them by programming in a certain computer language. These languages are usually somewhat hard to learn and many people shy away from them. As technology has progressed there has been the development of new and easier programming languages but it is still hard for children and others without much computer experience to learn. Since there is this dilemma in the world today, the many computer scientists and computer experts have come together to discuss new ways of approaching the problem. One solution to this problem was the development of visual languages such as Visual C++ and Visual Basic. There also new languages being developed and improved on such as XML and Ruby. Many other languages are being developed at this moment and someday there will be languages simple enough for everyone to use.
E-commerce application is a platform where there is buying and selling of products and services which are done by businesses and consumers via an electronic medium, mostly without using any paper documents. “E-Commerce applications support transactions between businesses and their customers. They provide 24/7 customer support, allowing customers to order products, check orders and track shipping, review previous orders, reorder products, and manage their accounts.” (Auburn SeeWolf llc , 2009-2012)