In the context of mobility protocols such as Mobile IP, authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) are challenging problems. Current mobility protocol deployments typically do not span trust boundaries, because there has not been any clear agreement about how network administrators from unrelated enterprises could agree upon to assure mutual security, and compensate each other for resou...

Mobile communication has recently experienced an exponential growth in developing countries. The scope of mobile diffusion is unprecedented as no other media technology in history has reached such a wide population, even to the poor at the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) (Castelle et al. 2007; Prahalad 2004). The mobile phone is, in many cases, the first and the single modern technology personally ...

Today’s mobile devices and networks enable the development of novel mobile service applications. Developing such applications raises many challenges including heterogeneity in terms of mobile operating systems and APIs, service availability and scalability, and providing for the diverse communication needs of different applications. In this paper, we present an overview of the Odin middleware p...

The world is flat, because it becomes increasingly mobile, fast, connected, and secure. People expect to move around easily with their mobile devices, keeping close communications with their partners and family, enjoying the versatile usage models and infinite contents, and without worrying about the device and data management. These all put requirements on the mobile devices, of which the mobi...

The purpose of this article is to provide a general overview on mobile commerce research with a focus on mobile commerce continuance usage intention studies. It highlights the phenomenon of mobile commerce industry as well as the conceptual definition of mobile commerce itself. It is then followed by a discussion on selected previous mobile commerce studies. In order to fill in the gap in the c...

the production, distribution, and consumption of information are the most important development indices of any nation. plenty of opportunities were created by e-learning which have overall paved the grounds for and enriched the presentation of learning materials through advanced audiovisual educational facilities. such learning environments are by and large flexible and provide more appropriate...

this study aimed at examining the major mobile wireless technologies, that is,mobile phones and the possibilities associated with them, currently in use in theeducational domains, with an emphasis on language teaching and learning practices.accordingly, some of the most typical studies using different functions of mobilephones such as e-mail, multimedia capabilities, wireless application protoc...

The mobile (wireless) service market has been rapidly growing along with the development of a variety of wireless applications and services and the increasing number of mobile Internet users. In this rapidly changing market environment, understanding users’ satisfaction with mobile Internet service, the dimensions of service quality, and their intentions to use current service is important to b...

Kjell Sorme of Ericcson argues that the “mobile internet is more than making the Internet mobile...it will enable a whole new set of services that can be tailored to the location and individual preferences, needs and circumstances of the mobile user” (Sorme 2001). He describes three phases of mobile Internet development. The first is using the cell phone to provide network connection for laptop...

Foresight scenarios indicated already in the late 1990’s that mobile commerce would become significant. The reasoning is simple: the rapid development of mobile technology will drive a growing mobile services industry which will be an integral and growing part of mobile commerce revenues. However, the adoption of new mobile services has been much slower than expected. Basic services such as SMS...