As technological innovations have progressed, the ability of social enterprises to find creative solutions to social problems in the global economy has increased. Social electronic enterprises (e-enterprises) contribute to the well-being of society by utilizing information and communications technology that has a financial component in addition to social and environmental objectives. Social e-e...

A novel system providing e ective and e cient access to video archives for mobile users communicating over low bandwidth error-prone wireless links is proposed. The developed system has three components: First, the middleware, implemented as mobile proxy server located at the mobile support station, is chosen for the seamless integration of both mobile users and video servers by hiding the spec...

Background: Mobile health and e-learning may have a significant impact on training patients, physicians, students and caregivers. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of using an educational mobile application on the knowledge of the caregivers of children with cerebral palsy (CP).   Methods: We used a previously developed mobile application. The knowledge of 17 caregivers of childre...

Continuous enhancements in computer technology and the current widespread computer literacy among the public have resulted in a new generation of students that expect increasingly more from their e-learning experiences. To keep up with such expectations, e-learning systems have gone through a radical change from the initial text-based environments to more stimulating multimedia systems. E-learn...

Users’ similarity mining in mobile e-commerce systems is an important field with wide applications, such as personalized recommendation and accurate advertising. Moving trajectories of e-commerce users contain much useful information, providing a very good opportunity for understanding the users’ interesting and discovering the similarity between mobile-device-holders. In this paper, we explore...

E-book is a fast growing service for mobile Internet. A user reads e-books through an e-reader that could be a dedicated reading device or a mobile application on the smartphones or the tablets. With content protection of Digital Right Management (DRM), e-books take longer chapter loading time due to necessary data decryption. This paper propose a mechanism that preloads a small number of chapt...

Nowadays, there is a surge of B2C and B2B e-commerce operated on the Internet. However, many of these systems are often nothing more than electronic product or service catalogues. Against this background, it is argued that new generation systems based on automatic negotiation will emerge. This paper covers a particular kind of automatic negotiation systems, where a number of participants in a m...

T he worldwide proliferation of the Internet has led to the emergence of an extensive range of services—one of the most popular being electronic commerce (e-commerce).1 Recent technological advances in the design of portable devices, along with increasing high-speed Internet access and mobile networking technologies, have enabled users to employ such devices anywhere, anytime to perform e-comme...

India is the fastest growing mobile subscribers market in the world with more than 850 million subscribers. Mobile phones have become an important component in Indian household. m-Governance is envisaged to propel the functioning of the government, at the next higher level. In this paper, we analyze the true potential of m-Governance in the Indian scene. Also, we examine the areas where the e-G...