While the business world has felt the impact of wireless mobile technology in many areas, valuation of mobile systems investments have remained largely uncovered. The initial hype for mobile technology has by now simmered down and business investors too, are demanding more concrete evidence before they are willing to put their money into mobile applications or services. The ability to assign va...

Contextual studies of information technology diffusion offer an opportunity to understand both the production and diffusion of IT innovations. Using a case of mobile-TV in the United Kingdom, this paper uses actor network theory (ANT) to render context as the various cross-industry groups and technologies enrolled and translated into the construction and reinvention of the mobile-TV services. B...

This panel will focus on the security and reliability challenges posed by distributed, mobile tele-health solutions (particularly those based on mobile phones). Academic, clinical, as well as industry panelists with direct experience in the design and implementation of mobile tele-health solutions will provide insights on how those challenges have been addressed thus far, and what are some of t...

One of the challenges of the communication industry today is wireless data transfer with great speed. If the traditional Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is the leader for indoor usage (coverage and mobility on short distance), the mobile WiMAX is planned to be the adequate solution for the outdoor (when the user exist the hotspots coverage area). In this paper we propose a solution, based on...

Mobile applications have become an important strategic imperative to many leading enterprises. While the potential value and impact of enterprise mobility is understood, only little is known about the transformational capabilities of mobile applications. This research develops a conceptual multi-phase framework of mobile transformations by integrating the emerging literature on mobile business ...

I ABSTRACT The rapid growth of the mobile consumer market has influenced companies to make their workplace digital and mobile, with the goal to remove ties to a physical workplace, increase productivity, and trivialize tedious tasks. The construction industry is in need of modernization; it is a competitive market and to get a contract it is vital to provide a reasonable price quote fast. This ...

The key performance metrics in wireless sensor networks are both network lifetime and an average time required to report an event reliably. The optimal solution must be taken into account to meet these metrics. Considering energy-latency constraints in sensor networks, we have developed a cluster architecture using mobile agents to detect the yarn break in spinning machine in textile industry. ...

Moore’s law has been the driver for the semiconductor industry for more than four decades which has led to phenomenal transistor density within the chip, as shown in Figure 1. Since the mid-1990s, with the emergence of mobile phones and other consumer devices, package level integration has increased significantly as well. Sometimes referred to as More than Moore integration, these advances have...

Mobile technologies and wireless communication experienced a rapid development over the last decade, with many industrial sectors realising the benefits of mobile collaboration. The advantages of using mobile computing are in the ability to share data remotely in real time, reduce rework and paperwork, being able to solve problems on site, construct accurate databases by the timely and continuo...

The rapid growth of the smartphone market in China has changed the structure of the Chinese mobile phone industry. The present paper analyzes this change using the concept of the “Business Ecosystem”. The world’s two big business ecosystems, Apple’s and Google’s, have developed as the dominant ecosystems, but telecom common carriers, mobile phone terminal vendors, and network service suppliers,...