The increased use of mobile phones worldwide has focused interest on the biological effects and possible health outcomes of exposure to radiofrequency fields from mobile phones, and their base stations. Various reports suggest that mobile phone use can cause health problems like fatigue, headache, dizziness, tension, and sleep disturbances; however, only limited research data is available in me...

Inherent limitations of mobile computing environment such as limited bandwidth, limited resourced mobile phones, and instability of wireless environment require summarized mobile database at mobile phones. Therefore the critical database summarization is done through an adoptive model incorporating object accessibility pattern in database queries by making optimal use of exponentially weighted ...

In the last decades mobile phones have evolved from simple instruments to make calls to complex and powerful devices. Following this trend, a popular application as gaming has extended its domain from home computers and consoles to the mobile realm. Mobile games represent now a killer application for smart phones and are attracting millions of subscribers worldwide. Nowadays, the challenge is t...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The limitations caused by the process of aging and the prevalence of chronic diseases contribute to reduced performance in physical, psychological, and social areas of life in older people. The use of mobile phones as easily accessible portable tools with a high performance is associated with an increased health literacy, self-care, and independence in older people. Th...

The apparition of new mobile phones operating systems often leads to a flood of mobile applications rushing into the market without taking into account needs of the most vulnerable users groups: the people with disabilities. The need of accessible applications for mobile is very important especially when it comes to access basic mobile functions such as making calls through a contact manager. T...

We propose to use mobile phones carried by people in their everyday lives as mobile sensors to track mobile events. We argue that sensor-enabled mobile phones are best suited to deliver sensing services (e.g., tracking in urban areas) than more traditional solutions, such as static sensor networks, which are limited in scale, performance, and cost. There are a number of challenges in developing...

Mobile phones and other mobile devices are fast becoming indispensible in our modern society. According to a recent survey by Frank N. Magid Associates and Upoc.com, 59 percent of Americans age 12 and over (about 140 millions of them) own mobile phones, and that almost a quarter of non-owners plan to buy a mobile phone in the near future [1]. The sales of mobile phones worldwide was 385 million...

The subscribers’ base of mobile phones is increasing globally with a rapid rate. The sale of mobile phones has exceeded those of personal computers. India is the second largest telecommunication network in the world in terms of number of wireless connections after China. Telecom companies are ready to tap a large unexplored market in India with lucrative offerings. Smart phones sale are at its ...