See Full StoryBack in early 2000, mobile commerce seemed to have sky-high potential. A global survey found that 61 percent of respondents imagined they soon would be using wireless devices as universal payment tools, and the analysts who compiled the survey predicted that overall revenue generated by m-commerce would total $100 billion in 2003. Needless to say, almost none of the hype surrounding this technology bore fruit in reality. Is m-commerce dead -- or is it just a sleeping giant whose time has yet to come?
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