M-commerce

VentureBlog analyzes the rise and fall of m-commerce-- or rather, explains why it hasn't taken off in America, but has in Asia and Europe. The conclusion:

The US carriers have tried to control mobile services and mobile commerce, and all they have succeeded in doing is killing it. The barriers to providing applications are so high that the content is just uninteresting and expensive. However, the manufacturers and content providers are finding ways around them to reach the consumer anyway. This is forcing change in the US market, and within 5 years we will finally have the services Europe and Asia has today.

Now that the hype has played out, in other words, we can get serious.