The implication of advances in wireless data communications on e-commerce

The way we conduct our day to day business has undergone fundamental changes over the past ten years. With the emergence of Internet that links the world together, users have put a lot more emphasis on communicating through the electronics media such as email and fax. We now seldom write to each other through letters but rather we communicate more often through emails or even ICQ! With the imminent changes in the wireless data communications, the erevolution that a lot of us are still trying hard to manage will extend from our desktop on to our hands. Internet connection will no longer be desk bound but will be extended to users who will be connected everywhere, all the time. This paper briefly examines the emerging technologies in the wireless data communications area and their effect on e-Commerce. Its implication to the training and skill development requirements for Hong Kong will also be examined.