Bringing Classroom and Outside World Together: Mobile Instant Messaging via WhatsApp© for Extracurricular Writing

Mobile Instant Messaging

In this paper we describe a Mobile Instant Messaging system, MIM, designed for mobile environments. During design of mobile applications several new problems and possibilities have to be considered that do not exist with applications targeted at desktop PCs. One example of an application not designed for a mobile environment is current, very popular, instant messaging systems such as ICQ, AIM a...

Instant Messaging Enabled Mobile Payments

According to an old telecom saying, no service can be considered as such, unless you can charge for it. Mobile payment (MP) is a term used to describe any payment where a mobile device is used in order to initiate, activate and/or confirm this payment. Contrary to popular belief, mobile payments do not restrict themselves to payments via mobile phone but can be made by virtually any mobile devi...

Instruction via Instant Messaging reference: what's happening?

Instructional Uses of Instant Messaging (IM) During Classroom Lectures

Can ““Information Age”” learners effectively multi-task in the classroom? Can synchronous classroom activities be designed around conceptually related tasks, to encourage deeper processing and greater learning of classroom content? This research was undertaken to begin to address these questions. In this study, we explored the use of instructionally-related instant messaging (IM) discussions du...

Virus Throttling for Instant Messaging

Virus Throttling is a technique to slow the spread of worms and viruses by targeting their propagation. It works by preventing an infected machine infecting many others. This then results in fewer machines becoming infected and less traffic generated by the virus. The technique has been shown to work well for worms that spread over many TCP/IP protocols as well as email. This paper applies the ...