The Freedom Economy: Gaining the mCommerce Edge in the Era of the Wireless Internet

From the Book: Foreword We at Nokia are part of the transformation of communication for the human race. Mobile phones and wireless technology are having that profound an impact on society around the world. Soon there will be a billion mobile phones in use and within just a few years the Internet will be fully mobile as well. We are seeing a democratization of technology uses and its impact through mobile communications. Until very recently, technology was meritocratic in that many countries lacked the infrastructures and capital required to put personal computers in schools and homes or to make it practical for businesses to exploit electronic commerce in the same way as in advanced economies. Any country now can enter…