Despite that existence of variety of electronic payment systems is among critical success factors of ecommerce, it is surprising to note that few studies were carried about the preferences of customers to these alternatives. This study evaluates the degree of current use, satisfaction, intention to adopt and perceived obstacles toward existing electronic payment systems. Data were collected fro...

Achieving a better rank online is often costly. Is the effect of ranking different for mobile devices and traditional PC? This study empirically examines the ranking effect across different device types in an ecommerce environment. With over 4 million observations from Tweaker.net, the largest shopbot in Netherlands, we estimated the ranking effect between mobile and PC. Surprisingly, and contr...

TOURISM ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC PAPER E. Christou Vol. 58 No 1/ 2010/ 7-18 Th e development of electronic travel services over the Internet has assisted greatly travel agents to better anticipate to changes in consumers' shopping behaviour as well as to changes resulting from socio-demographic profi les of consumers (Go, Van Rekom, & Teunissen, 1999; Bedard, 2000). For instance, the mounting averag...

Mobile agents raise security issues such as the protection of platform/host that runs the mobile agent against attacks which can harm or use its resources without permission, and another is the need for protection to guard mobile agents and their supporting systems against the malicious attacks from a variety of intervening sources that might alter information it carries and processes when it v...

Online word-of-mouth (WOM) has been studied extensively by electronic commerce researchers, particularly in the realm of online product reviews. As mobile computing becomes more and more common, difference in navigation and the ability to foster focus may lead to changes in the way in which consumers read and react to mobile product reviews compared to online reviews. We use research related to...

In this study, the sequence and trends of mobile learning in Taiwan region from the three aspects of background and content, development, and future perspectives was firstly analyzed. Then, the definition, elements, and characteristics of mobile learning were explored from its background and contents. The last section of this study depicted the current condition of mobile learning in Taiwan reg...

Background Advances in wireless technology increase the number of mobile device users and give pace to the rapid development of e-commerce conducted with these devices. The new type of e-commerce transactions, conducted through mobile devices using wireless telecommunications networks and other wired e-commerce technologies, is called mobile commerce (increasingly known as mobile e-commerce or ...

Advances in e-commerce have resulted in significant progress towards strategies, requirements, and development of e-commerce applications. However, nearly all e-commerce applications envisioned and developed so far assume fixed or stationary users with wired infrastructure. We envision many new e-commerce applications that will be possible and significantly benefit from emerging wireless and mo...

Since nowadays mobile phone messages are flourishing, the application of electronic coupon (e-coupon) will become a trend for mobile users. E-coupon for mobile commerce can provide mobility for users and distribution flexibility for issuers. However, most of the existed e-coupon schemes usually apply public-key cryptosystem to achieve the security, which will not be implemented in mobile device...