Special Edition Using XML, Second Edition

Future Wireless Directions

The evolution of mobile phones and especially of the online services available to wireless devices was probably not as fast as expected during the last several years.

The main reason is that it usually takes more time to prepare people's mentality to accept something new than to create new devices with powerful features.

However, it now seems that people are starting to accept the possibility of performing online transactions using the cell phone. That is why e-commerce service providers started their fight for mobile customers. There are certain implications of using mobile services for conducting complex commercial transactions, such as high operational costs, lack of trust, and so on, but m-commerce has already become ...