From the historical perspective, commerce has always been affected by improvements in communications and vice versa. The desire of ancient merchants, to reach more and varied customers, propelled them to undertake major hazardous journeys across the oceans and mountains. This desire resulted in heavy investments in transport and communications industries. The continuing interplay of commercial success and communications technology is going to push the new means of communicating for rich content and on multiple media.
Mobile Computing is the new communications technology that is driving the commercial world into new, hitherto unexplored, arena of anywhere, all time, anyway and anyhow reach to the potential customers. This new technology and unexplored business arena, is giving all businessmen a feeling that the potential of this computing, communications and commerce marriage is going to affect the ways the business is conducted in multiple dimensions. These dimensions are uncertain, unknown and unpredictable as of now. This uncertainty gives the potential to come up with applications, business models, personalized customer care systems, and multitude of new business systems that would amplify the business revenues.
We define mobile computing to be seamless provisioning of existing networked or distributed computing system through non-wired connections to a user who is mobile.
