Nowadays, with the advancement in mobile technologies, the use of web services has seen an explosion in interest for mobile computing environment. However, the heavyweight nature of conventional web services to be deployed on mobile devices brings new challenges in mobile computing in the coming future. Web services technology and mobile computing domains are converging at their intersection wh...

Web service provisioning is art of deploying web services on mobile devices; it is very new research topic to host web services on smart mobile phones. Now a day's use of mobile phones for other than its basic functionality is used. Today mobile computing has become ubiquitous mobile computing exits everywhere, every time, every place and in every device. This is possible due to advances in mob...

Web services are moving towards mobile world as a new emerging technology for applications communication. Mobile devices can operate as service consumers or service providers. Most approaches nowadays support consuming web services from mobile devices. This paper introduces a new framework called “Mobile Web Server” for providing mobile web services for not only mobile devices but also web appl...

For many years mobile devices were commonly recognized as Web consumers. However, the advancements in mobile device manufacturing, coupled with the latest achievements in wireless communication developments are both key enablers for shifting the role of mobile devices from service consumers to service providers. This paradigm shift is a major step towards the realization of pervasive and ubiqui...

Providing web services from smart phones is current recent research topic, this happened because of smart phones are used almost every area, where today’s user uses for mobile banking, emailing, searching location and data. Smart phones are advanced in terms of processing power, memory with an embedded camera, sensors and same time parallel advancement in wireless network and software web techn...

Mobile computing became general computing environment as mobile devices getting powerful and wireless connectivity improves dramatically. As well, Ubiquitous Web Service becomes more viable because of the success in mobile computing. However, there are few huddles remains to integrate Web Services with mobile devices such as battery-life problem and messaging efficiency issue. We proposed and i...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Mobile services eWOM Trust transfer Web-mobile service transition Entitativity Technology acceptance Success in web services cannot promise the success in corresponding mobile services. To understand the mobile service adoption behavior under the context of web–mobile service transition, this study, taking mobile eWOM services as an example, investigates the role...

This paper discusses Web Service provisioning from Android Smart Phone. Web Service provisioning is the art of hosting and offering Web Services for Android based mobile device. This is due to advancements in mobile device manufacturing and wireless communication ability. This has changed the role of the mobile devices of Web service consumers to Web service providers. Today there is not a sing...

With the advancement of mobile technologies, numerous web service providers begin to extend their web services to the mobile context. Thus, the mechanism about users’ mobile service adoption behavior under the context of web – mobile service transition attracts both practitioners and researchers’ attention. In this study, regarding the consistency between the web services and its corresponding ...