Mobile ERP is not per se something new or even special. It is an issue growing to become more and more important and enabling mobility due to the technological revolution and more so due to the mobile users. Mobility is about how businesses can provide a better infrastructure through mobile applications and services. While ERP was an important step taken by many firms, provision of services thr...

Technological advances have changed the way in which financial services are transacted, with mobile banking being the latest development in this domain. This paper focuses on the adoption of mobile banking services by consumers. Rogers’ diffusion of innovation model was adopted to study the consumers’ behaviour and motivation towards this innovation. The personal characteristics of mobile banki...

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...

Mobile multimedia services like goal notification for football fans by Multimedia Messaging Service (one club = one channel) and mobile television require efficient technologies in order to distribute multimedia contents simultaneously to large mobile user groups. UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) Release 6 has standardised MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Services) for ...

Mobile technology has become increasingly common in today’s everyday life. However, mobile payment is surprisingly not among the frequently used mobile services, although technologically advanced solutions exist. Apparently, there is still a lack of acceptance of mobile payment services among consumers. The conceptual model developed and tested in this research thus focuses on factors determini...

Adoption of mobile data services may be analyzed within the framework of two-sided markets. Service or content providers should adopt platforms for developing, integrating and distributing mobile services and end-users should adopt the offered services as well as the user platform offered. These two markets are often analyzed separately using different theoretical perspectives and models. In th...

a r t i c l e i n f o The emerging group-oriented mobile commerce services are receiving significant interest among researchers, developers, wireless service providers, and users. Some of these services, including mobile auctions, mobile financial services, and multi-party interactive games, are transaction-oriented and will require the network and protocol support for managing transactions. In...

the place of information in addressing market access and participation limitation, which hinders farmer’s welfare and poverty reduction efforts in many developing countries, cannot be over-emphasized. this study therefore examined the use of mobile phone in the marketing of food crops among farming households in rural south east, nigeria. a multi stage sampling procedures was used in the select...

The added value of mobile services is decided by the context in which they are used. In this paper, the authors study how the context-of-use influences the intention to adopt mobile messaging, entertainment and social media services. While doing so, the authors compare the intended use between males and females. The results are based on a large scale survey study among Finnish consumers. Accord...

The mobile era is well established and the number of smartphone users is showingexponential growth. The capability of smartphones and enabling technologies is also increasing and has opened many possibilities of personalized mobile services. The goalof personalization is to support the user by providing the right service at the rightmoment. Early focus of personalization was on cont...