Recent advancement in web technology enabled the development of new Business-to-Business (B2B) infrastructures, e.g. based on the concept of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). These infrastructures enable seamless information exchange among different stakeholders and complex business procedures. However, there is still a lack of sufficiently generic and standardized application-level interfac...

Pronto[19] is a middleware system for mobile applications with JMS messaging as a basis in both centralized and decentralized forms. Asynchronous messaging is essential to support reliable communication with mobile devices. An intelligent gateway and smart caching in Pronto support the construction of distributed messaging systems over JMS servers. The main aim of Pronto is to support a reliabl...

Instant messaging software, as a convenient network communication tool, is becoming more and more popular. At the same time, it also brings risks in security of local area network (LAN). Through studying in typical instant messaging software and detected by the combination of misuse detection and protocol analysis, an architecture of detecting and blocking mechanism of instant messaging softwar...

During the last two years mobile messaging and VoIP applications for smartphones have seen a massive surge in popularity, which has also sparked the interest in research related to the security of these applications. Various security researchers and institutions have performed in-depth analyses of specific applications or vulnerabilities. In this paper I will give an overview of the status quo ...

Enterprise integration patterns [7, 8, 17, 18] are well-known for designing, building and deploying messaging solutions. Testing loosecoupled systems during productive operation is a challenge due to several reasons such as the time needed for delivering a message, co-existence with productive messages and some others. Integration on process level has emerged as a promising paradigm for managin...

Spatial messaging is a term that defines the virtual publication of data in physical places. Generally, anyone in the neighborhood of such a publication point gets the message. Frameworks allowing the users to publish freely spatial messages already exist. However, the experiences realized with volunteers showed that there is only little interest in posting such notes. To our view, the main rea...

As a convenient and low-cost mobile communication technology, Short Messaging Service (SMS) is experiencing very rapid growth. It is reported that 700 million mobile phone users worldwide sent 20 to 30 billion SMS messages every month in 2001. At the same time, SMS commerce applications have emerged to provide mobile users consumeroriented services. The huge SMS messaging customer base serves a...

This paper discusses the general characteristics of the mobile instant messaging market from a competition point of view. Positive feedback and indirect network effects, which strongly influence the mobile instant messaging market, tend to facilitate the development of one quasi-monopoly. Even after several years of market maturation, however, no mobile instant messaging application has yet est...