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The client server systems using mobile communications networks for data transmission became very attractive for many economic agents, in the purpose of promoting and offering electronic services to their clients. E-services are suitable for business developing and financial benefits increasing. The products or services can be efficiently delivered to a large number of clients, using mobile Inte...

Mobile data services seem a promising revenue source for the stakeholders that have heavily invested in mobile communications infrastructures. However, in the Western world those services have not reached the mass markets yet. This chapter focuses on two markets that are representative of the European socioeconomic environment, Greece and Denmark, with the aim to investigate and compare mobile ...

This study models the intention to use novel mobile peer-to-peer communications and content sharing services and determine their adoption potential. A sample of 155 Finnish customers with an advanced mobile handset was collected and analyzed. The Theory of Planned Behavior conceptual model for measuring behavioral intention was applied in the context of novel mobile services. The model was esti...

The future of mobile telephony is expected to rely on mobile services and the use of mobile services will be an integral part of the revenues to be generated by third generation mobile telephony. The adoption of new mobile services contradicts this proposition as it has been much slower than expected. Basic services such as search for information, ring tones, and icons and logos are still the m...

Delivering a robust, high-performance application service over the Internet requires careful configuration and maintenance – different functional components of the service, such as caching, data processing, or data storage components, must be deployed at appropriate locations based on the resource constraints of the network and the receiving hosts. Although this manual configuration approach wo...

In recent years the modern vehicle has developed into a sophisticated sensor and computing environment. This development has been motivated by an ambition to enhance operations. In order to increase customer service and revenues, vehicle manufacturers are now interested in using the sensor data generated in the vehicle for remote vehicle services, i.e., mobile services connecting the vehicle to...

During the past few years, the mobile prepaid service has been growing exponentially all over the world. Four approaches have been proposed to provide mobile prepaid service. We describe these approaches and compare their strength and weakness. Our analysis indicates that the handset based approach is a low cost, high risk solution. The wireless intelligent network approach is a high cost, low ...

The most remarkable trends in communication have been the huge popularity of Internet and the growth of digital cellular telephony usage. There is a strong demand to combine these two in the form of mobile Internet access. This paper discusses the service implementation issues for the wireless environment. The requirements placed on the services and service development by the mobility are prese...

This paper reports on some initial findings of the EU IST SEINIT project with respect to the security of end-to-end services over the wireless access and fixed network and captures the state of the art in secure mobile services infrastructures. Acknowledgements: This work was funded in part by the European Commission and the Swiss Government through the FP6 IST project SEINIT (Security Expert I...