With the increasing usage of smartphones a plethora of security solutions are being designed and developed. Many of the security solutions fail to cope with advanced attacks and are not aways properly designed for smartphone platforms. Therefore, there is a need for a methodology to evaluate their effectiveness. Since the Android operating system has the highest market share today, we decided t...

Service functions are implemented on smartphones by storing on them personal information, network-operator information, corporate information, and so on. Most smartphones use an open source operating system (OS), and anyone can obtain the OS source code; consequently, smartphone users are exposed to the threat of receiving fraudulent information from people with malicious intent. Aimed at count...

Mobile phone manufacturers are now changing their main products from feature phones to smartphones. In addition, due to the stagnation of the global economy, the manufacturing industry in Japan is faced with six main issues: a strong yen, high corporation tax, a delay in trade liberalization, tight labor regulations, global warming, and a power shortage problem stemming from the accident at the...

Mobile forensic is fast becoming an abbreviated term that describes the process of applying digital forensics in mobile phones world. The rapid development in mobile phones industry has led to the emergence of the so-called smart phones which have become nearly the same as computers. Android Smartphones refer to all types of smartphones that use Android operating system. This paper aims to surv...

The modern smartphones contain different sensor technologies, so they were used as stand-alone measurement instruments on a wide range of application domains. The survey of measurement applications based on smartphones. In the begining part, the evolution of mobile phone technologies, including the mobile networks and sensors developments. Then, in order to highlight the sensors and the communi...

This research examines the emotional attachments that users have towards their smartphones. An online survey and a case study were undertaken, in order to determine the degree to which users were attached to their smartphones, and the results of both studies highlighted that all participants displayed emotional attachment to their smartphones. Conclusions may be drawn from the results of the st...

In conducting criminal investigations it is quite common that forensic examiners need to recover evidentiary data from smartphones used by offenders. However, examiners encountered difficulties in acquiring complete memory dump from MTK Android phones, a popular brand of smartphones, due to a lack of technical knowledge on the phone architecture and that system manuals are not always available....

cell phone technology is being increasingly used by clinicians to access up-to-date information during patient care. medical students, residents, and faculty members of medical faculties or hospitals use mobile devices, such as smartphones (e.g., iphone, android, blackberry) and tablet computers (e.g., ipad), to answer clinical questions and find medical information. this article investigates t...

Objectives: Changes in the Range of Motion (ROM) are essential criteria in determining the severity of spinal disorders and could be effective in predicting pain progression. Instruments to measure the ROM are costly and unavailable in most therapy settings. While there is a tendency in therapists to use their smartphones instead, there is no report to measure the suitability of smartphones to ...