ABSTRACT
M-commerce (mobile commerce) is the buying and selling of goods and services through wireless hand-held devices such as cellular telephones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and wireless computers. 3G has opened up the wireless world because of its portability and bandwidth, making computers the one of the most popular devices for data transfer. Known as next-generation e-commerce, m-commerce enables users to access the Internet without needing to find a place to plug in. The emerging technology behind m-commerce, which is based on the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), has made far greater strides in Europe, where mobile devices equipped with web-ready micro-browsers are much more common than in the United States.
