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The Standard Shopping With Your Cell Phone
"Motorola (MOT) , Symbol Technologies (SBL) , AirClic and Connect Things are pooling $500 million to form a new company that will facilitate e-commerce from wireless devices. The company will allow consumers to make purchases simply by pushing a button or scanning a bar code."

"The participants share an ambitious vision: They want to embed minuscule scanners into high-tech mobile devices, and billions of sophisticated bar codes on ads in publications, and then distribute millions of the mobile devices to customers. The participants hope that people would use the gadgets to scan bar codes (or, as the participants call them, "Web codes") of a product they want and purchase it instantly."

ComputerWorld Report debunks early potential of wireless e-commerce
"Anyone planning to make a fortune in mobile e-commerce � the new-millennium version of last year's dot-com frenzy � should think twice about where to invest their money, according to a hype-busting report from Ovum Inc., a Boston-based consulting firm."

"The report discounts consumer interest in new mobile wireless services, warning wireless-wannabes to focus on business users and "genuinely unique" consumer services. Dennis Brown, co-author of the Ovum report, said that even business users "won't pay a premium for existing (wireless) services, which are easier and cheaper to access using their phone or PC . . . if suppliers are to survive and prosper in the long term, their early offerings will have to be very targeted and very compelling.""

Infoworld Oh the horror, the horror: The new world of wireless commerce runs amok
"Stop and ask yourself: "Just because we're developing the capability of purchasing via mobile systems, does that really mean people are going to develop a sudden and inexplicable Pavlovian desire to buy all the time?" Do we really expect the world to be gripped by the same fever that drives the Home Shopping Network? My bank account just happens to be a few orders of magnitude smaller than Bill Gates', so I actually don't want to spend money all the time."

"M-commerce -- no, make that successful m-commerce -- will not be about purchases. M-commerce will be about providing information which facilitates a purchase. Don't think commerce, think communication. There's a Grand Canyon-sized gap between those two ideas. It's the difference between offering a gadget for sale via handheld and giving access to information about that gadget -- the reviews, who's put it on their Christmas list, etc. -- and the ability to make a note to one's self: "Check this out, I might want it.""

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