Mobile services appear to be an obvious choice for travel and tourism as the travellers are on the move, which is the first criterion for mobile services to be relevant. The travel and tourism industry, which is one of the largest and most rapidly expanding industries in the world and one of the significant users of ICT in its operations, will no doubt be an important market place for mobile se...

The emerging markets of mobile commerce are calling for potential successful products and services. This process is challenging all actors of the mobile commerce industry (MCI). Learning from the future and discovering a route to a desired future are keys to successful mobile commerce business. In this paper we argue that it is very important that all actors in the MCI use an industry foresight...

The Mobile Industry, which is one of the most dynamic and growing industry in the world, is no longer just about the delivery of voice over phones. Introduction of new content services such as logo-melody or RBT (Ring Back Tone), and voting-contest services, data services, messaging services and java games make it more dynamic. The future of mobile telephony is expected to rely on mobile servic...

Mobile commerce is enabling the development of additional revenue streams for organizations through the delivery of chargeable mobile services. According to the European Information Technology Observatory, the total amount of revenue generated by mobile commerce was reported to be less than £9 million in the United Kingdom in 2001. By 2005 this had, at least, doubled and more recent industry fo...

The construction industry is facing a number of pressures to decrease costs, improve productivity and have a competitive edge in terms of quality of service and customer satisfaction. Recent advancements in mobile technology provide new avenues for addressing this situation. This paper presents the role of emerging mobile technologies and, in particular, the development of a mobile facsimile so...

In mobile IPv6 network, AAA mechanism is necessary for administration and security because roaming nodes are permitted and become majority. However, disharmonies are exposed when MIPv6 meets AAA. On one hand, AAA procedures increase the latency of MIPv6 handover by inserting several message round trips before mobile registration. Thus the handover performance is reduced. On the other hand, AAA ...

Recent advances in the design and fabrication techniques of microelectronic devices have resulted in tremendous improvements in system functionality, performance and power consumption. These improvements have been fueled by tremendous growth in the semiconductor industry and increasing demand for hand-held and wireless electronic systems. However, these same advances also impact the stability, ...