THE MOBILE COMMERCE TECHNOLOGIES:GENERATIONS, STANDARDS AND PROTOCOLS

Mobile Commerce has staged a remarkable come-back. Driven by the technologicalinnovations in the field of telecommunications, it is showing signs of a healthy recovery. Thecollapse of the dot-com boom in 2001/2002 had dealt a severe blow not only to ElectronicCommerce but also to Mobile Commerce, which was just about developing at that time. Inaddition to a general lack of customer demand for mobile, location-based, services, it sufferedheavily under the technical deficiencies of end-devices, slow data transmission and unripetechnological standards. These factors in turn had a negative impact on the customeracceptance of mobile services and whatever little demand was available, was rendereduseless. Many of the environmental conditions have changed since...