Background: Today, mobile phone technology has provided an opportunity for teachers and students to improve their continuous teaching/ learning process. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of learning via mobile phone in the course of clinical pharmacology of medical students at pediatric ward. Methods: In this semi-experimental study, 40 medical students at their last ...

the increasing penetration rate of mobile phone, with specific characteristics of this medium, such as almost everywhere with the audience, has attracted companies' attention to it as an advertising channel. mobile devices facilitate highly customized marketing communication in terms of person, time location and context so numbers of companies that use this medium for communicating with th...

Mobile learning is e-learning delivered through mobile computing devices, which represents the next stage of computer-aided, multi-media based learning. Therefore, mobile learning is transforming the way of traditional education. However, as most current e-learning systems and their contents are not suitable for mobile devices, an approach for mobile devices to adapt to e-learning is presented....

With the development of E-commerce, more scholars have paid attention to research on Mobile E-commerce and mostly focus on the optimization and evaluation of existing process. This paper researches the evaluation of Mobile E-commerce process with a method called ASME. Based on combing and analyzing current mobile business process and utilizing the grid management theory, mobile business process...

Technically e-learning material can be downloaded from a PC environment to a mobile phone environment. But the context, environment, physical limitations of a mobile phone, sets limits to a mobile learning environment. The didactic model cannot be transferred usually from e-learning to mobile learning environment. In an experiment we test the limitations of a mobile learning environment and pos...

This paper presents work-in-progress towards the development of an intelligent mobile agent-based e-marketplace system called InterMarket. InterMarket aims at enabling mobile access and automated trading in e-marketplaces based on integration of mobile agents and intelligent decision-making agents offered as an add-on component to a commercial e-marketplace platform. The paper overviews the pro...

EBooks can presently be read on a plethora of devices, from a basic computer to a Smartphone. However, the most commonly applied hardware for displaying this content is the ebook reader – a dedicated electronic device that conveys the book metaphor as well as further technological developments trying to offset matters of legibility such as EInk, or a multifunctional device like iPad. In this pa...

In current electronic commerce systems, customers have an on-line interaction with merchants via a browser on their personal computer. Also payment is done electronically via the Internet, mostly with a credit card. In parallel to this, e-services via wireless-only systems are emerging. This paper identifies security and functionality weaknesses in both of these current approaches. The paper di...

Using mobile Internet access technologies and eservices, various economic agents can efficiently offer their products or services to a large number of clients. With the support of mobile communications networks, the clients can have access to e-services, anywhere and anytime. This is a base to establish a convergence of technological and financial interests of mobile operators, software develop...