Rapid diffusion of mobile telephone services is accompanied with low satisfaction and high switching behavior many markets. Despite the popularity of technology diffusion studies in marketing literature, limited research concentrate on the impact of marketing mix variables vis-à-vis clients’ satisfaction. Much fewer studies were conducted in developing nations. This paper investigates the influ...

Currently, wireless data broadcasting is a very popular data dissemination method for broadcasting public information to a large number of mobile devices at the same time. Access Latency and Tuning Time are the two main parameters to evaluate the performance of a indexing technique of data broadcasting system. Indexing can significantly reduce tuning time by switching clients to turn into doze ...

Radiofrequency (RF) waves have long been used for different types of information exchange via the air waves--wireless Morse code, radio, television, and wireless telephone (i.e., construction and operation of telephones or telephone systems). Increasingly larger numbers of people rely on mobile telephone technology, and health concerns about the associated RF exposure have been raised, particul...

In recent years, mobile devices became more and more powerful, wireless Internet access is becoming standard. To support mobile applications adapting their User Interface to various, fast changing contexts, we proposed to use semantically described User Interfaces [BFKJ08]. In that paper, as well as in related research works, mainly form-based applications, as used for office software, have bee...

This paper describes a mobile manipulator that uses its wheels for manipulation as well as locomotion. This robot, named the mobipulator, looks like a small car with four independently powered wheels, none of them steered. It is designed to manipulate paper and other objects on the surface of a desk. The wheels are used for locomotion or for manipulation, switching functions dynamically as the ...