The study was carried out in Anambra State, Nigeria. Questionnaire was used to collect data from a sample of one hundred and eight (108) small-scale farmers. Percentage, mean score, standard deviation and factor analysis were used for data analysis. The duration of the study was June 2009 and March, 2010. Results of the study indicated that the major constraints to effective use of ICTs by smal...

Current mobile devices, and mobile phones in particular, are equipped with different wireless technologies that increase and diversify their communication capabilities. The combined and effective use of these technologies offers various opportunities in terms of services and applications. However, it requires detailed analysis in terms of security and choice of the communication mean to use acc...

fibre − over − an enabling role for radio Broadband wireless systems and networks: Email alerting service here the article or click of article-sign up in the box at the top right-hand corner Receive free email alerts when new articles cite this There has been a remarkable take up of wireless and mobile communications in recent years, such that in a number of countries the number of mobile phone...

The IEEE 802.16e standard, often referred to as mobile WiMAX, specifies air interfaces for broadband wireless access (BWA) systems. The standard is expected to energize the BWA industry and open many opportunities to deploy systems in applications that were previously cost-prohibitive. Mobile WiMAX uses roaming and handoff to enable laptop and mobile phones to operate. High throughput is partic...

In this wireless communication era, mobile phones have become a necessity in the common man’s life. Besides being capable of making calls and sending messages, the latest advancements in mobile phones facilitate them to connect to the internet also. With these capabilities, there has been an unprecedented use of mobile phones in many areas of automation. One such area where mobile phone can hel...

The Internet, mobile phones and social media are tools for various forms of communications interactions which individuals nations have implemented development poverty alleviation. arrival wireless technologies in Nigeria the low tariffs associated with GSM services made applications affordable as e-commerce. Using qualitative methods, this paper presents impact wealth creation on Micro, Small M...

Social wireless networks are the networks in which the nodes are splits in a wireless network for an effective communication. Social wireless networks are common in mobile devices such as data-enabled phones and in some other mobile devices. These are used to share common interests such as to share the electronic content in networks. Electronic object caching in such networks will be reduce the...

Pervasive computing provides an attractive vision for the future of computing. Mobile computing devices such as mobile phones together with a land-based and wireless communication network infrastructure are the existing technical prerequisites for continuous access to networked services. The security of the system is a high concern in this environment, as well as its usability. This paper prese...

Current research on usability for mobile commerce has focused on single platforms and very limited aspects of commerce activities. We conducted an exploratory study to examine usability problems and to identify potential research questions concerning wireless solutions for consumer e-commerce. By using cognitive walkthrough and heuristic evaluation methods, we evaluated the usability of ten wir...

As new mobile devices such as cellular phones, PDAs, laptop computers, and touch screen computers become more and more popular, many people want to be able to access the internet without limitations. Rapid advances in various wireless access technologies such as wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA), mobile worldwide interoperability for microwave access (M-WiMAX), long term evolution ...