The rapid development of mobile commerce (m-commerce) has profound influence on logistics industry. Firstly, through analysis that combines m-commerce and the logistics industry, the paper draws a conclusion that main m-commerce applications in logistics industry include cargo tracking, mobile inventory management, vehicle positioning and M2M (machine to machine) mobile services. Then, we think...

Advances in e-commerce have resulted in significant progress towards strategies, requirements, and development of e-commerce applications. However, nearly all e-commerce applications envisioned and developed so far assume fixed or stationary users with wired infrastructure. We envision many new e-commerce applications that will be possible and significantly benefit from emerging wireless and mo...

mobile commerce is whatever electronic transfer or transaction via a mobile modem through a mobile net in which the true value or advance payment is done for goods, services or information. a mobile payment system should be beneficial for all related persons. for a payment system to be a successful system, end-user, seller, exporter and operators should see a additional value in it. end-user pr...

Mobile commerce has been a tremendous success regarding individuals' adoption in many developing countries. This paper discusses the realities of m-commerce and the major differences between mobile commerce and Internet-based e-commerce. Based on this understanding, driving critical factors in the adoption of m-commerce applications and services is being discussed. The e paper focuses on factor...

studying the effects of b2b e-commerce adoption on the smes process and structure is crucial for businesses. extant researches have investigated the impacts of adopting e-commerce and provided some findings, but the varied theoretical approaches have produced results that reflect the impacts of either external or internal factors of adopting e-commerce. however, these approaches did not use a c...

This paper describes collaborative commerce (c-commerce); it essentially combines ecommerce, knowledge management and collaboration to carry out transactions and other activities within and across organizations. We first discuss the building blocks for c-commerce. Then, we describe models and federated architectures for c-commerce. Next we analyze the strategic role of knowledge management for ...

TAbstract T—E-commerce and e-business (henceforth referred to e-commerce) has moved to the forefront of technology priorities, and it can help firms to do everything faster, better and cheaper. More and more conventional brick and mortal firms regard e-commerce initiatives as offering strategic opportunities to transcend their normal operations. To take full advantage of e-commerce, firms need ...

Mobile commerce (m-commerce) refers to an ability to conduct wireless commerce transactions using mobile applications in mobile devices. M-commerce applications can range from as simple as an address book synchronization to as complicated as credit card transactions. M-commerce is expected to grow dramatically in the near future supporting simple to complex commerce transactions. Even though th...