Mobile Commerce Is Coming
The iPhone and iTouch are the fastest-growing technology platforms in history. That is according to Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker, who also predicts that mobile commerce will dramatically grow in the U.S. M-commerce Around the World Japan and some Scandinavian countries are ahead of the United States in the use of mobile commerce, and mobile payments in these countries have already become commonplace. As of March 2009, Japan had 50 percent more 3G subscribers than the United States, according to a report from communications research firm TeleGeography. The use of the mobile technology as a payment gateway first started in Helsinki, Finland in 1997, when a company owned by Coca-Cola installed two mobile-optimized vending machin...