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9. The Market, Products & Services providersmLearning commercial service providers are listed in Appendix 3.Figure II.7The pie charts in figure II.7 clearly point out that the tendency from 2006 to 2011 is largelyin favor of content products and slightly for services at the expense of technology and theneeds also have shifted from higher education to governmental institutions. This is a USAprojection which may not necessarily corroborate with other continents. The analogy withe-learning products is parallel; at the outset Internet access and technology were majorbarriers but content products had generated more income for commercial companies. Offthe shelves mLearning products with the content that can be plug into a local networkinfrastructure and as far as possible technology independent will certainly find a market.The types of products on the market from Ambient are depicted in figure II.8.49