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Mobile Commerce Applications (Cont.)

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Proactive Service Management
Applications collect information on user needs and then signal vendors to provide services. For example, smart sensors on an automobile relay information on component conditions to appropriate parties. A central access point (gateway) lets such information travel over wireless networks to a single location, from which it goes to specific parties.

For example, manufacturers can alert customers about levels of wear and tear in components and improve the quality of future products.

Ubiquitous Gaming The $30 billion video game market continues to produce more energy, money, and interest than does the film industry. In Japan, Nintendo's Game Boy Advance connects to the Internet via KDDI's mobile phone service.
Analysys, Ltd. projects mobile games revenue will reach three billion in 2008.
NTT DoCoMo found that mobile entertainment generates 52 percent of the revenue from its i-mode wireless content service, according to the Yankee Group.