M-Commerce: industries converge, potential great but roadblocks remain

[mandy]

Parts 1 and 2 of a 3-part series examing the m-commerce market:

"The number of digital music-enabled mobile phones sold each month eclipses the total user base of iPods," Myk Willis, CTO of mVisible Technologies, told the E-Commerce Times. "There's been a lot of focus on TV and streaming video to mobile devices, but 2006 was an important year in terms of the ability to distribute digital music content to mobile devices via telecoms networks."...

part 1: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/55471.html

"While I am sure that the mobile phone will become a multifunctional communications and entertainment device for many users in developed mobile markets, I am not so convinced that this will be universal, at least for some time," Juniper Research senior consultant Bruce Gibson told the E-Commerce Times. "This will not happen in developing markets very quickly because of the lack of underlying infrastructure."...

part 2: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/Z1Ct...rt-2.xhtml

[mandy]

Part 3 of the article:

For all the promise and potential rewards of m-commerce, there are any number of challenges still to be met and kinks to be worked out. Digital rights management continues to be a divisive issue. Major telecom providers continue to resist and restrict opening up their networks to content from third-party distributors and aggregators, although this is changing.

full article: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/lvax...rt-3.xhtml