Indian mobile handset industry has seen explosive growth backed by liberalization and heavy investment in the telecommunication infrastructure. With growth it becomes extremely important for mobile handset brands to position their brands properly. This paper attempts to know how customers perceive different brands of mobile handset in the light of attributes considered by consumers in making pu...

Current needs of industry required the development of advanced database models like mobile databases, active databases, and fuzzy databases. Fuzzy concepts are adapted to the eld of databases in order to deal with ambiguous, uncertain data. Fuzziness comes into picture in mobile databases especially with moving objects. Incorporating fuzziness into rules would improve the eeectiveness of active...

The Mobile Payments Industry Workgroup (MPIW) is comprised of payment stakeholders focused on eliminating barriers to successful adoption of mobile and digital retail payments in the U.S. Consumer adoption and merchant acceptance of mobile payments continue to grow, albeit at a slow pace for several reasons. Some of the challenges and opportunities were explored at the MPIW meeting convened in ...

The emergence of new mobile platforms built on Google’s Android operating system represents a significant shift in the locus of the platform “bottleneck,” or control point, in the mobile industry. Using a case study approach, this paper examines firm strategies in a market where the traditional location of the ICT platform bottleneck—the operating system on a device—is no longer the most import...

The increasing deployment of mobile technologies across industry sectors is creating fertile ground for organisations to exploit new revenue streams generated from applications that exploit the mobile ecosystem. M-Commerce has been recognised as a key driving force of next generation computing and industry analysts such as IDC have predicted revenue growth arising from m-commerce to far exceed ...

The development of autonomous mobile robots is continuously gaining importance particularly in the military for surveillance as well as in industry for inspection and material handling tasks. Another emerging market with enormous potential is mobile robots for entertainment. A fundamental requirement for autonomous mobile robots in most of its applications is the ability to navigate from a poin...

Technological advances have changed the way in which financial services are transacted, with mobile banking being the latest development in this domain. This paper focuses on the adoption of mobile banking services by consumers. Rogers’ diffusion of innovation model was adopted to study the consumers’ behaviour and motivation towards this innovation. The personal characteristics of mobile banki...

Recent development of wireless technologies, networking infrastructure, and mobile devices has contributed to the rapid growth of mobile commerce (m-commerce). While e-commerce continues to impact the global business environment, the focus has been directed towards wireless mobile computing. Given this trend, telecommunications is perhaps the key to all interconnection, information systems, and...

Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) is a combination of mobile computing and cloud computing. It has become one of the Major Research issue in the industry. Although there are so, many research studies in mobile computing and cloud computing, convergence of these two areas grant further academic efforts towards flourishing MCC. With this aim, this paper presents a review on the background and principl...

Existing mobile IT applications in the construction industry are constrained by their reliance on static methods of information delivery, from dynamic project conditions. This paper information delivery (CAID), which promises to ma changing work demands. A roadmap to personalized pervasive user-centred intelligent work environment capable of serving relevant information needs of busy constructi...