Email overload is a growing problem for many users in the workplace [1]. Users often have trouble retrieving messages for use later or in remembering to reply or to act on a particular message. There are two causes. The first is due to the problems associated with maintenance and retrieval in a semantic hierarchical structure. The second is due to current email systems are designed around the a...

Tobacco companies are restricted from engaging in many traditional forms of marketing. Direct marketing is one way tobacco companies can reach consumers while complying with regulation and avoiding negative public perception. There is little research on this type of opt-in marketing, which includes mail marketing, email marketing, web marketing, and mobile marketing, and its impact is not well ...

Cloud computing as a disruptive technology has given a chance to explore computing as a utility. The pay as you go model provides a flexible model to optimize cost. For different needs, cloud computing offers different models and services to balance the cost, time and resources. Faster communication is the need of each academic institute today to facilitate a good learning environment in a shor...

Electronic mail has become the unexciting and mundane electronic communication medium we love to hate. It wasn’t always that way. Hate is a fairly recent emotion. Email has been with us in one form or another since the earliest days of computer networks and bulletin board services. From inauspicious beginnings, it became one of the three “killer apps,” along with Telnet and FTP, that gave the I...

Shiv Kalyanaraman, Raj Jain, Sonia Fahmy, Rohit Goyal The Ohio State University Department of CIS Columbus, OH 43210-1277 Email: fshivkuma, jain, fahmy, [email protected] and Seong-Cheol Kim Principal Engineer, Network Research Group Communication Systems R&D Center Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. Chung-Ang Newspaper Bldg. 8-2, Karak-Dong, Songpa-Ku Seoul, Korea 138-160 Email: kimsc@metro....

Used to communicate important information and provide contact outside of lectures to great effect, email has emerged as the communication medium of choice. However, Instant Messaging is fast emerging as a favourable world-wide method of communication with its interactive nature and appealing user interfaces. However, can it be as effective within the organisation and more importantly the univer...

Mohammad M. N. Hamarsheh, Mohamad Khazani Abdullah, Sabira Khatun, Hossam M. H. Shalaby Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Multimedia University, Jalan Ayer Keroh Lama, 75450 Melaka, Malaysia. Email: [email protected] Photonics Laboratory, Department of Computer and Communication Systems Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. Department of El...

Roshan Weerasekera, Dinesh Pamunuwa, Matt Grange † †Centre for Microsystems Engineering, Faculty of Science & Technology, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YR, UK. Email: {r.weerasekera,d.pamunuwa,m.grange}@lancaster.ac.uk Hannu Tenhunen, Li-Rong Zheng ∗ Department of Electronics, Computer, and Software Systems, KTH School of Information and Communication Technologies, ELECTRUM 229, 164 40 K...

ARJAN DURRESI,VAMSI PARUCHURI, LEONARD BAROLLI, RAJGOPAL KANNAN, S.S IYENGAR Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University 298 Coates Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA Email:{durresi, paruchuri, rkannan, iyengar}@csc.lsu.edu Department of Information and Communication Engineering Faculty of Information Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT) 3-30-1 Wajiro-Higashi, Higashi...

the present study investigated learners’ interlanguage pragmatic development through analysis of 99 requestive emails addressed to a faculty member over a period of up to two years. most previous studies mainly investigated how non-native english speaking students’ (nness) pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic competence differed from native english speaking students (ness) and compared learners ...