The mobile industry is facing an exponential growth in styles and features of handsets. Video broadcasts, rich media and MMI styles are just some of the required features for next generation mobile devices. Meeting this challenge requires a software platform that can be scaled and deployed quickly in order to address the convergence and diversity of mobile multimedia devices. This paper introdu...

Mobile informatization as its real-time, mobility, personal characteristics is changing the operating mode of enterprise, and enterprises are gradually moving into the mobile informatization. This paper introduces an analysis method (IEB) based on focused three-layer structure. Through analysis of industry characteristics and sensitivity to mobile informatization, enterprise itself and specific...

Mobile apps offer new possibilities to improve business processes. However, the introduction of mobile apps is typically carried out from a technology point of view. Hence, process improvement from a business point of view is not guaranteed. There is a methodological lack for a holistic analysis of business processes regarding mobile technology. For this purpose, we present an analysis framewor...

Market Conduct and Endogenous Lobbying: Evidence from the U.S. Mobile Telecommunications Industry* by Tomaso Duso and Astrid Jung This paper empirically explores the relationship between firms’ market behavior and their lobbying activities in a regulated market. In particular, we investigate whether the amount of contributions offered by cellular service providers to fund the campaigns of polit...

The more the mobile devices are approaching to advance their security, the numbers of vulnerabilities are also becoming more astonishing. The number of mobile phones including smart phones is rising vertically, and so has the amount of malware activity. This report documents the latest threats in Symbian mobile industry and analyses the consequence. In addition, it will suggest the possible sol...

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...

mobile commerce is whatever electronic transfer or transaction via a mobile modem through a mobile net in which the true value or advance payment is done for goods, services or information. a mobile payment system should be beneficial for all related persons. for a payment system to be a successful system, end-user, seller, exporter and operators should see a additional value in it. end-user pr...

A business model framework is presented which is derived from the literature to aid the development of viable business models expected from the amalgamation of mobile telecommunication and space infrastructure. With examples for the global mobile telecommunication industry, this theoretical paper will illustrate the importance of technological and organizational co-operation between the various...

Given the volatile nature of the mobile services industry and the recent interest in mobile services from local governments, this article introduces a business model framework that allows the design and analysis of value networks for mobile services in a public context. It finds its foundations in an existing and validated business model framework and expands it to include parameters that come ...

Mobile technology offers an unprecedented growth opportunity for banking industry in Tanzania. As the economy continues to prosper, increasingly affluent consumers and underbanked segments create demand for new financial products and services. Many consumers in Tanzania have mobile phones, but not bank accounts. Therefore, the mobile channel presents an effective way to connect them to the nati...