Exercise 25: M-commerce and the e-wallet and mobile devices

1. What is meant by a location based service?

When doing the e-commerce or m-commerce. The technologies tries to locate the region of the user stay and provide information on the product and shop nearby according to the user need.

For example, when typing the www.yahoo.com to the URL at browser, the system of Yahoo will redirect the user to the local website instead of the global or website of other countries.

When a user purchase a produce through e-commerce or m-commerce. The system will locate the shop nearby the user for product delivery instead of sending from the other countries. This promotes the speed of product delivery, reduce cost by reducing the transportation cost, increase customer satification by better local customer service.