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...

The use of Automated Teller Machine (ATM) has become an important tool among commercial banks, customers of banks have come to depend on and trust the ATM conveniently meet their banking needs. Although the overwhelming advantages of ATM cannot be over-emphasized, its alarming fraud rate has become a bottleneck in it’s full adoption in Nigeria. This study examined the menace of ATM in the socie...

Short Message Service (SMS) is a popular form of nonverbal mobile communication. To date, most research has focused upon the use of SMS by teenagers and young adults. Our work examines the use of SMS by middleaged users. We conducted a usability study evaluating the ease of use or difficulties experienced by middle-aged individuals whilst engaging in text message objectives and SMS tasks, in ea...

Customerization In the current scenario, mobile internet applications enable consumers to access a variety of services: Web information search, SMS (short message service), MMS (multimedia message service), banking, payment, gaming, e-mailing, chat, weather forecast, GPS (global positioning service), and so forth. Collectively, we denominate this wide array of services as “mcommerce.” These dig...

CONTEXT The expansion and adoption of new methods of communication provide new opportunities for delivering health behavior change interventions. This paper reviews the current research examining mobile telephone short-message service (SMS) for delivering health behavior change interventions via text messages. This service has wide population reach, can be individually tailored, and allows inst...

Personalization has been recognized as an important feature of a successful m-commerce application and context-awareness is a promising approach to achieving it. The proposed platform reaches the mobile device users and bridges enterprise information systems with mobile network operators, aiming at supporting personalized short message service (SMS) in an open and generic way. Based on a rule r...

Now a day’s many organizations are required to communicate online on a daily basis, 24-hour, seven-days-a-week, to gain the desired competitive advantages and profits; although there are a variety of disruptions that may occur within business application such as broken (off-line) database-links and unhanded database exceptions. Such cases will end the automated business work, and force business...

With recently widespread use of mobile phones and SMS communication in Iran and reformulation of conventional communication practices, short message advertisements have recently started to gain prominence in the world of advertisement as a quick, less costly, available and reliable means of introducing the products and services offered by the companies and institutions. With this in mind, the p...

the purpose of the study was to examine compliance of extension personnel in imo state agricultural extension service delivery system of nigeria. a purposive and multi-stage random sampling was used to select 105 extension personnel from the three agricultural zones of the state. data generated were analyzed using descriptive statistics such as frequencies and percentages, as well as mean score...

In this work we describe the design and implementation of a system, which uses the wireless GSM Short Message Service data transfer technology, in order to give network managers access to services on remote network equipment, via a cellular phone. First, we present the mechanism and discuss the features and restrictions of the Short Message Service, as well as the limitations of current cellula...