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E-commerce’s next challenge

08/4/2005 | Filed under: Latest eBusiness News — site admin @ 5:43 am

The next decade of e-commerce wont see anything like the fury of fortunes and fallouts of the first 10 years, but there remains plenty of opportunity for improving the process and attracting the minority still not shopping on-line, experts say.

Whether its un-tethering consumers from desktop computers with new mobile services, enriching Web pages with better graphics, or easing transactions with a universal payment system, companies are already experimenting with ways to refine the e-commerce process.

In the last few years, theres been very little innovation in e-commerce. Were seeing steady growth, but were not seeing a lot of new players. says Barry Parr, an analyst with JupiterResearch, an Internet consultancy. Weve sort of come into this expectation that theres going to be a next great thing. But e-commerce has developed so quickly early on that weve moved into a period of stability now.

So where do you think the biggest change in E-commerce is going to come from?

There are certainly plenty of options as this canadait.com article explains…