Over the past few years mobile phones have evolved into attractive platforms for novel types of applications. However, compared to the design and prototyping of desktop software, mobile phone development still requires programmers to have a high level of expertise in both phone architectures and their low-level programming languages. In this paper we analyze common difficulties in mobile phone ...

The Japanese mobile phone market is 55.8% of the total market in the telecommunications industry. This paper is a conjoint analysis on Japanese consumer preferences for Japanese mobile phones. The analysis in this paper is presented after a questionnaire survey was given to 3,412 Japanese mobile phone users over 15 years old. The results of this analysis show that a decline in the price of mobi...

BACKGROUND Several studies have investigated the impact of mobile phone exposure on cognitive function in adults. However, children and adolescents are of special interest due to their developing nervous systems. METHODS Data were derived from the Australian Mobile Radiofrequency Phone Exposed Users' Study (MoRPhEUS) which comprised a baseline examination of year 7 students during 2005/2006 a...

Calls about suicide to a teen peer listening phone service over a period of 5 1/2 years are described. The majority of those calling about suicide were females. The phone contacts were of longer duration and later in the evening than calls about other concerns. Those concerned with suicide also discussed other serious issues such as self-esteem, family problems, substance use, and abuse and wer...

the main objective of this paper is to argue how the mobile phones have transformed the iranian lifestyle and how the arrival of mobiles has been a catalyst for revolting behavior, and has launched a new consumer behavior and has changed our relationships. the paper explains how the people's behavior has developed a whole new social code in iran. it is argued that the social value of being able...

We present a mobile phone based virtual market system to facilitate socioeconomic activities in developing regions. The system is built upon SMS (Short Message Service) platform. Our system, enhanced with novel integration of NLP (Natural Language Processing) technologies, provides an intuitive and reasonable means of exchanging market information across long distance and has a potential of ben...

For many people, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) looks like a nimble way of using a computer to make phone calls. Download the software, pick an identifier and then wherever there is an Internet connection, you can make a phone call. From this perspective, it makes perfect sense that anything that can be done with the telephone system — such as E911 and the graceful accommodation of wiretap...

Prepay usage as a percentage of overall mobile phone access has increased sharply over the past several years. However, the recharging process is still largely manual with personalization provided by the user. The MOBIE system described in this paper shows the future service of automatically recharging the prepaid account of a mobile phone in a personalized manner. Special attention is given to...