This study examines the usage and continuance of mobile internet services by developing a theoretical framework incorporating the cognitive, affective and judgemental components, as well as automatic factors, such as habit. Based on this framework, we examine and compare the usage and continuance of mobile internet services by collecting data from mobile service users. By identifying the differ...

Eighty-one female and sixty-seven male undergraduates at a Malaysian university, from seven faculties and a Center for Language Studies completed a Computer Self-Efficacy Scale, Computer Anxiety Scale, and an Attitudes toward the Internet Scale and give information about their use of the Internet. This survey research investigated undergraduates’ computer anxiety, computer self-efficacy, and re...

Nutrition especially for young adults is very crucial as they are in transitional phase from adolescent to adulthood. The aim of this survey was to explore the nutritional habits of university students especially those who use internet heavily. An Internet-based survey was performed among 361 young adults’ students at private medical university in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A self-administered que...

Mobile access to the Internet with handheld devices has been technically possible for quite a while and consumers are aware of the services but not so ready to use them. A central reason for the low usage is that user experience of the mobile internet is not yet sufficiently good. This paper analyses the mobile internet from the end-user perspective, identifying factors and solutions that would...

Anonymising proxies are a growing problem for organisations as more people become aware of their capabilities. These proxy sites enable users to bypass the network’s filtering system leaving the network open to banned content and harmful threats. Network administrators do try to block these online proxy sites, but with a growing number of new sites created, this task is not a trivial one. Many ...

There are errors in the author affiliations. The affiliations should appear as shown here: Phil Reed, Rebecca Vile, Lisa A. Osborne, Michela Romano, Roberto Truzoli 1 Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom, 2 Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, Swansea, United Kingdom, 3 Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy. There is an error in Table 1. The second occurrence of the w...

Although the Internet is widely used today, there are few sound estimates of network demographics. Decentralized network management means questions about Internet use cannot be answered by a central authority, and firewalls and sensitivity to probing means that active measurements must be done carefully and validated against known data. Building on frequent ICMP probing of 1% of the Internet ad...

The relationship between the psychobiological model of personality types (psychoticism, extraversion, and neuroticism) devised by Eysenck and Eysenck [Personality and individual differences: A natural science approach, Plenum Press, New York, 1985] and Internet use and usage motives was examined. A sample of 210 undergraduate students were asked to report on their motives for using the Internet...

The authors examine racial and ethnic differences in computer ownership and Internet usage using data from a survey conducted by the Nomura Research Institute in 2000. They focus on on-line shopping because few studies have examined racial and ethnic differences in e-commerce. The results indicate that blacks and Hispanics are less likely to own or use a computer than are non-Hispanic whites bu...

The aim of this study was to assess the value and the measures for the utilization of Internet services among dental professionals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by using a survey questionnaire at various locations including College of Dentistry, King Saud University (DUC & MUG); Armed Forces Hospital, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, King Fahad National Guard Hospital, and Riyadh Medical Center. The ...