The Apple iPhone is more than just a phone. It’s a mobile computing platform and an Internet gateway that allows its user to do things on the go with an ease that has historically been relegated to the desktop computer. We can use social media sites like Facebook, or participate in microblogging on Twitter; we can use it as a tool to find restaurants and read reviews, find directions to those restaurants, and get recommendations on what to order there. These are all commonly discussed capabilities of the device – but people often don’t think about shopping as a mobile activity.

The darling of the internet shopping crowd, Amazon, provides a free application in the App store for shopping on their site. It’s fast, full-featured, and dangerous – it supports one-click… Continue reading the rest of this article...

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