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To: Boplicity who wrote (6137)	3/5/2000 6:51:00 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35685

G: How about 'M-Commerce'....I mean Mobile Commerce <G>...FYI.... ragingbull.com Some key phrases... <<...The real point is that m-commerce-enabled smart phones are going to be ubiquitous. For many people, five years from now, a smart phone is going to be the primary means of communicating over the Net. For many people, three years from now, a smart phone is going to be the primary tool for what we today call "e-commerce." Sure, that means a lot of retooling of today's e-commerce sites. Successful e-commerce companies will split their customer access between more conventional pages and smaller pages, organized very differently, with better and sharper searching, optimized for m-commerce machines. The whole role of these pocketable smart phones is going to change. We'll use them constantly -- for everything from checking stock prices and making trades to buying movie tickets and Cokes from vending machines (already commonplace in some parts of Europe), as well as for sending short messages to one another. As the Net spreads its tentacles, we'll use them to trigger events in Net-controlled environments -- turning on the heat at home, for example, so it's warm by the time we get there from the airport, and getting intrusion alerts from vacation homes when the alarm system there goes off. M-commerce will be only a part of this, of course, and in fact, I'm convinced that in maybe three years, as the number of truly smart, Net-enabled 3G phones reaches critical mass and the number of services we can easily access through them has exploded, all this will seem unremarkable -- utterly evolutionary, utterly predictable.>> Regards, Scott