Successful diffusion of 3G mobile is necessary for the provision of many advanced applications via the mobile platform such as mobile broadband Internet and video. The current deployment of 3G services is significantly more developed in some countries than others. Through a regression analysis of 106 observations, this study examines the factors affecting such differences. It was found that mul...

This paper explores the potential for audio and video services streamed to mobile handset from the perspective of consumer behaviour. The author argues that consumer choice rather than technology or supply side activities will determine the success of the services and that demand for mobile broadcasting services will come primarily from consumers who are currently using mobile audio and video s...

The adoption of mobile services is often studied at a generic level and limited research has addressed personalisation service adoption. This paper proposes a framework for assessing the likely success or failure of personalisation mobile services. It was found that enjoyment and usefulness are the most important factors in attracting users to adopt personalisation services. Comparing these fin...

in order to improve the level of intelligence, availability, being on demand, convenience, information and humanization of rural public transportation systems, they are more willing to use modern information and communicative technologies. in addition to management services, intelligent transportation systems can provide passengers, drivers, travel agencies and other institutions with other ser...

Today, mobile phone or other handheld device owners expect also receiving and watching a TV stream besides the classical voice or text services. The Digital Video Broadcasting – Satellite services to Handheld (DVB-SH) is designed to transport mobile TV services. It also supports a wide range of mobile multimedia services, e.g. audio and data broadcast as well as file download services [1], [2].

Most of today’s information services on the web are designed for PC users. There are few services fit to be accessed by mobile devices. In the countryside of China, most of the mobile phone users can not access the Internet. For this reason, We developed General Agriculture Mobile Service Platform. The Platform is designed to make these information services fit to be accessed by mobile users, a...

Mobile brokerage services represent an emerging application of mobile commerce in the brokerage industry. Compared with telephone-based trading services and online brokerage services, they have advantages such as ubiquity, convenience, and privacy. However, the number of investors using mobile brokerage services to conduct brokerage transactions is far smaller than those using other trading met...

Location-based services (LBS) are very important mobile app services, which provide diverse mobility services for mobile users anywhere and anytime. This brings new demands, issues, and challenges in mobile application testing. Today, mobile applications provide location-based service functions based on dynamic location contexts, mobile users and their travel patterns to deliver location-based ...

This article proposes a novel method and system to solve the issue of management orchestration (MANO) end-to-end network services when MANO is deployed in mobile infrastructure which within user domain. Such system, referred as u-MANO, raises several challenges issues terms ensuring integrity service continuity provided by services. These become even more complex are collaboration with third-pa...