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US businesses are having to rethink their mobile commerce plans<\/a>. Seems folks in the US really aren’t that interested in web browsing with their cell phones to see what their bank balance is.<\/p>\n

That seems like a no-brainer to me, but evidently Europe and Japan — where cell phones are much more common, and more common than PCs — have a lot of mobile commerce already going on, and that’s where a lot of businesses are focusing their attention.<\/p>\n

We in the US just want to use our cell phones to make phone calls. Go fig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US businesses are having to rethink their mobile commerce plans. 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