Paper Issues - Mobile Ecommerce

S30057544 Christopher Navarro Atarama
S30057544 Christopher Navarro Atarama

Mobile E-Commerce
ITECH 3212 E-commerce 2 - Assignment 1
Mobile E-Commerce
ITECH 3212 E-commerce 2 - Assignment 1

Table of Contents 1 Abstract 2 2 Introduction 2 3 Definitions 2 4 Mobile E-commerce infrastructure 3 5 Privacy issues 4 6 Security issues 4 7 Mobile Client Device Technologies and Issues 5 8 Mobile devices applications issues 6 9 Bibliography 7

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Abstract
The following report is a document made with the intention of accomplishes the first assignment of E-Commerce 2 course of the University of Ballarat at IIBIT Sydney.
The aim of this report is give a general overview about Mobile E-Commerce or M-Commerce and its different issues in the actuality.
Introduction
Day by day, new technologies come up bringing new ways of communication and interconnection, using the great network: Internet. This network, in addition, opens a wide door of electronic business opportunities known as E-Commerce (Roehl-Anderson, 2010).
In the actuality, and with the development of new technologies in mobile devices area, make electronic commerce is more accessible, fast and mobile (Antovski & Gusev, 2009). This new E-business model is known as Mobile E-commerce or M-Ecommerce.
According with Antovski & Gusev (2009), M-Commerce is defined as any transaction with monetary value that is conducted via a mobile telecommunications network. M-Commerce like Ecommerce can be B2B (business to business), P2P (person to person) or B2C (business to customer) oriented. The framework divides into couple sub areas based on user’s distribution criterion. Mobile Ecommerce addresses electronic commerce via mobile devices, where the consumer is not in physical or eye contact with the goods that are being purchased.
Definitions
Mobile Devices: Also referred to as handheld devices, are generally poket-sized devices with computing capabilities (including

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