M-Business: A Global Perspective

Abstract

This chapter discusses the use of mobile, handheld computer devices that are connected wirelessly to a network for business and personal use across people, projects, tasks or organizational units to infer a trend of general acceptance of m-business in the market place. It describes the state of the mobile commerce industry from a worldwide perspective and the barriers to implementation of m-commerce, discusses the issues and challenges followed by the the conclusions and directions for future research.