mobile commerce

Once upon a time there was a van the held books. It traveled the length and breath of the land .............is that not mobile commerce????
No, according to my lecture notes is" the use of the Internet for purchasing goods and services and also for transmitting messages using wireless mobile devices"(source: lecture notes)
Recently I have seen a massive change in the mobile phone era with the amount of applications and services that are available for the mobile Internet. i.e the mobile phone. I remember the time when I first seen a mobile phone, it had a postage size screen and didn't even have predicted text and the actually size of it well lets just say that a PC speaker would feel modest. The service industry I feel has particularly benefited from this app boom as it is just another channel of communication for their customers to access wherever they go. It is possible to make a reservation for a restaurant on your mobile while booking ticket for a show tonight, there is even some rumors that with a mobile you can control your lights and heating in your house to come on when your away.
Now that there is so much app choice is it possible to customize your mobile Internet from our jean pockets or in the case for the ladies, from their huge bottomless bags. Parents can track their children from their phones using a tracking device just in case there is a mix up between the library and the junior disco.
From a female point of view the mobile Internet could replace our credit cards and even our LOYALTY CARDS!!!!!! Our mobile phones they will be the technology assistants attached to us knowing and meeting our every need from day to day.
However I am still a bit weary of the security and privacy as this needs to be still perfected. Maybe it could link our customized mobile with others of the same and blind dating could go a step further than Cilla Black.