Mobile phone is one of a few technologies in the world that have created immediate and widespread of an impact mobile phones. The impact of the mobile technology for development has been seen from many different perspectives, but few empirical studies have investigates the technology in relation to human development perspectives and in particular Capability Approach. The present study fills thi...

With the explosion of technology development, information appliance (IA) and digital devices (DD) become more and more popular these years. And the development of the third generation (3G) mobile phone is viewed as the most potential profitable product in the next decade. However, 3G mobile phone is confronting its promotion bottleneck. By using diffusion of innovation and lifestyle theory, hen...

Mobile phone use in cars is a highly debated issue. Legislation and policy discussions flourish in many countries and coincide with an increased effort in design of new in-car technologies. The studies which influence policy and design decisions use experimental approaches and are based on a cognitive perspective. In this paper, we discuss why this is a problematic approach. Further, we provide...

Mobile phones have changed consumer and company behaviour and today they constitute the most direct means of communication between them. Many groups are targeted through promotion campaigns using mobile phones. Children, who in the future will be the largest consumer of new technologies, are one of these groups. Given that current Spanish legislation does not clearly establish what company poli...

While roughly half of the world’s population has access to mobile phones, people in different cultural contexts sometimes use – or view – their phones in divergent ways. A growing variety of country-specific studies have emerged over the past decade, though the number of cross-cultural studies has been smaller, especially with respect to identical survey instruments being applied in multiple co...

The impact of patents and patent royalties are a major concern of standards setting organisations. Here we examine the patents filed in the UMTS 3rd generation mobile phone standard, governed by the ETSI IPR policy in response to patent issues faced during the earlier GSM standardization. We contrast firm strategies and policy effectiveness between the GSM and UTMS efforts, and review the poten...

This paper explores the application of smartphones for human-induced loads measurements. Preliminary tests were carried out to select proper smartphones and data acquisition software. Shaking table tests were then conducted on selected smartphones to measure sinusoidal waves of various frequencies, sinusoidal sweep waves and earthquake waves. Comparison between the smartphones’ measurements and...