The rapid advancements in wireless and mobile technologies combined with the wide spread of mobile phones and the utilization of such an opportunity in e-government services have created a new direction, the mobile government (mgovernment) (Kushchu & Kuscu, 2003). Kushchu and Kuscu (2003) define M-government as the strategy and its implementation involving the utilization of all kinds of wirele...

Objective There is a general tendency toward direct marketing these days. Therefore, instead of designing advertisement and marketing strategies for all the customers in the market, it is recommended to classify the customers based on clustering techniques and then design specific strategies accordingly. This will reduce marketing and advertisement expenses, increase sale department efficientl...

Although worldwide organic agriculture is constantly gaining ground compared to traditional agriculture, still a number of countries encounter problems mostly related to lack of validated information and knowledge, technical support by specialized agronomists, coordination and organization of the trading network and promoting mechanisms. The appropriate use of Web technologies and mobile comput...

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...

This paper reports on an empirical study to assess the impacts, benefits, and critical success factors of mobile applications to enhance an electronic procurement system. For different user groups, we analyze the role of the work environment for the usage and, ultimately, the benefits of the mobile applications. The study provides a basis for a broader framework to improve the design and manage...

The Saudi government has recently paid serious attention towards utilising mobile technology in order to deliver government services electronically to its citizens. This study attempts to explore citizens’ (potential users) perceptions on a number of factors that may be important for encouraging the widespread adoption of mobile government (mGov) services in the context of Saudi Arabia. The fac...

In recent years, due to the rapid evolution of mobile communication technologies, e-commerce has been combined with the mobile communication equipment, and a new paradigm of business – mobile commerce has appeared in business field. Nowadays, the development of 3G-related technologies further pushed the popularity of m-commerce. This paper attempts to categorize the participants in the 3G-based...