The developing of E-commerce

Description

Electronic Commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. The amount of trade conducted electronically has grown extraordinarily since the spread of the Internet.

Some common applications related to electronic commerce are:

• E-mail and messaging
• Documents, spreadsheets, database
• Accounting and finance systems
• Orders and shipment information
• Enterprise and client information reporting
• Domestic and international payment systems
• Newsgroup
• On-line Shopping
• Messaging
• Conferencing

(from wikipedia)

The developing of E-commerce accelerates our ecomomy, changes our way of doing business and lifestyle. Nowadays everything is online, in order to have much more convenient life, people need a way of connecting them online whenever and wherever. But people travel everywhere, it's not that convenient if you carry your laptop everywhere even if there's wireless network everywhere. The better solution is to use a smaller mobile devices, like a mobile phone with internet connection. With those devices, people can also do nearly everything they want. Order tickets for Weekend's movie, check their email with customers, find the status of the goods they ordered, pay their bills with mobile banking.

The developing of E-commerce leads people's need and attitude towards mobile devices. Just because of e-commerce, people have new needs now: they wanna do everything they can with mobile device just as whey do in front of computers. Where there's a need, there's a market, so mobile devices nowadays are designed according to people's new needs. We can say e-commerce actually enriched mobile devices' functions.

Timing

(see also: 3G mobile history, History of Mobile Phone)

Web Resources

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