I somehow stumbled over this article ,Gates  says mobile  will become digital wallet, which after all doesn't say much about Gates vision on m-commerce. So why did it catch my eyes? Well it reminded me of my own thoughts on the topic. I recalled vaguely having drafting something down about Yahoo! and mobiles at a time B and I were brainstorming on that particular subject.

So I dug into my old sent emails and look what I unearth! It smells like a piece of history ;-) (sent on 24 August 2005) :

"How to leverage the power of Yahoo ID:
with it you can already access your yahoo email (if you use it), your
yahoo groups, your my-yahoo page, your yahoo messenger , your Flick-R
account...
Great ... but it could be extended further... a lot farther...
for instance :
* Google is about to launch a new payment system online 'a la' paypal
... why not counter-attack and offer a wallet attached to your
YahooID?
* extend partnership agreement with other online subscription services
to allow subscription by mean of Yahoo ID ( a la Flick-r
www.flickr.com )
* and open-up gateway to ... m-commerce

- m-commerce:
What is really becoming a killer is payment using your cell-phone and
all kind of transaction, aka m-commerce, see this article:
http://www.smartmobs.com/archive/2005/08/21/japans_m-comme.html
Again yahoo initial business was to be the most famous web portal ,
why not transfer that onto the mobile world
and somehow attached Yahoo ID to a m-ID allowing transaction through
your mobile ?
look at that : http://www.op3.com/en/technology/shotcodes "