Mobile Price Comparison Services

Author

Brüggemann, Tobias ; Breitner, Michael H.

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Wirtschaftsinformatik, Univ. Hannover

fYear

2005

fDate

19-19 July 2005

Firstpage

193

Lastpage

201

Abstract

Price comparison services are becoming more and more important. Besides their use in electronic commerce today, they will also provide prices for local retail shops in the near future. More than 200 services are online worldwide. But today only few services can be comfortably used on small devices such as PDAs, smart-phones and cellulars via SMS, WAP, iMode, GPRS/UMTS or WLANs. As a result of unique Web pages provided by these services or microbrowsers on small devices full functionality, easy personalization, secure payment and location based services are available. Despite broad mobile supply of German-speaking price comparison services, till now, mobile price comparison could not become widely accepted yet. This paper addresses the state of art concerning Mobile Price Comparison Services. It presents various limiting factors, and outlines what needs to be done to get mass acceptance of mobile price comparison services

Keywords

electronic money; mobile computing; pricing; retailing; GPRS; German-speaking price comparison services; PDA; SMS; UMTS; WAP; WLAN; Web pages; cellular phones; electronic commerce; iMode; location-based services; microbrowsers; mobile price comparison services; secure payment; smart-phones; 3G mobile communication; Art; Banking; Business; Electronic commerce; Ground penetrating radar; Internet; Personal digital assistants; Smart phones; Web pages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Commerce and Services, 2005. WMCS '05. The Second IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2391-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WMCS.2005.15

Filename

1581592