Smartphones have become a popular and an imperative form of mobile computing devices. With the proliferation of smartphones however, the security threats have correspondingly increased. Although, some form of security mechanisms like authentication and encryption have been provided on platforms such as Android and iOS, these alone cannot mitigate all the forms of threats. Malwares for smartphon...

Individual mood is important for physical and emotional well-being, creativity and working memory. However, due to the lack of long-term real tracking daily data in individual level, most current works focus their efforts on population level and short-term small group. An ignored yet important task is to find the sentiment spreading mechanism in individual level from their daily behavior data. ...

T h e p r o b l e m posed for our sub jec t s in t he p resen t expe r imen t will be fami l ia r to a n y o n e who has t r i ed to discuss a lgebra over t he te lephone . It is not too difficult to indicate by appropriate emphasis and intonation that "A plus B times C" refers to A + BC, rather than to (A + B)C, but when the expression becomes only a little more complicated both talker and lis...

Mobile phones were introduced to rural midwives in tsunami-affected Indonesia, allowing them to contact medical experts and communicate with patients. 92 interviews were conducted with midwives, coordinators, doctors, and village representatives. This study applies a dialectical perspective to supplement the analytical frame of the ICT for healthcare development model (Chib et al., 2008), by ad...

Smartphones are being used extensively these days and they are capable of replacing conventional computers and laptops to some extent. The main reason is that smartphones are smaller in size and lighter compared to bigger and heavier computers or laptops. The battery powering a smartphone also has a size constraint and hence the capacity. Though new generation communication systems such as 3 Ge...

Smartphones are a new technology similar to PDAs but with expanded functions and greater Internet access. This article explores the potential uses and issues surrounding the use of smartphones in nursing education. While the functions of smartphones, such as sending text messages, viewing videos, and access to the Internet, may seem purely recreational, they can be used within the nursing curri...

The spreading use of Smartphones stimulates growth of mobile computing. However, mobile computing through smartphones poses challenges due to its intrinsic nature of battery capacity, constraints of wireless networks and performance limitation of devices. Most users want their smartphones to be more powerful and high throughput, at the same time, small and light. In this research, we provide th...

Smartphones are becoming some of our most trusted computing devices. People use them to store highly sensitive information including email, passwords, financial accounts, and medical records. These properties make smartphones an essential platform for privacy-preserving applications. To date, this area remains largely unexplored mainly because privacy-preserving computation protocols were thoug...

The market of security software solutions for smartphones has grown considerably in the last years. A wide range of products is available. The objective of our paper is to develop an overview of security software solutions for smartphones. At first we identify typical threats and security measures for smartphones. Then we explore current security software solutions and describe how these can be...