with recently widespread use of mobile phones and sms communication in iran and reformulation of conventional communication practices, short message advertisements have recently started to gain prominence in the world of advertisement as a quick, less costly, available and reliable means of introducing the products and services offered by the companies and institutions. with this in mind, the p...

background: increasing cost of cancer in the world and particularly in developing countries, postulates need for public participation in cancer control activities, including prevention, treatment and supportive care. we studied role of different factors on the success of advertising through short message services (sms) for public donations for cancer control activities. materials and methods: b...

Short Message Service (SMS) is a popular method of non-verbal communication. So far, the majority of research has been conducted upon teenagers and young adults. In our work, we investigate the use of SMS services by middleaged users. A usability study of SMS is conducted, evaluating how effectively middle-aged users engage in SMS activities. Ease of use and difficulties experienced by middle-a...

Pervasive computing provides an attractive vision for the future of computing. Mobile computing devices such as mobile phones together with a land-based and wireless communication network infrastructure are the existing technical prerequisites for continuous access to networked services. The security of the system is a high concern in this environment, as well as its usability. This paper prese...

Text analysis includes lexical analysis of the text and has been widely studied and used in diverse applications. In the last decade, researchers have proposed many efficient solutions to analyze / classify large text dataset, however, analysis / classification of short text is still a challenge because 1) the data is very sparse 2) It contains noise words and 3) It is difficult to understand t...

Short Message Service (SMS) is an important component of modern mobile services. Given unique characteristics of Chinese language, it is imperative to conduct study to understand characteristic of language usage patterns in Chinese SMS so that important facts like why and how people in China use SMS can be discovered. In this paper, we report an analysis of Chinese SMS logs from three different...

Now a day’s many organizations are required to communicate online on a daily basis, 24-hour, seven-days-a-week, to gain the desired competitive advantages and profits; although there are a variety of disruptions that may occur within business application such as broken (off-line) database-links and unhanded database exceptions. Such cases will end the automated business work, and force business...

SMS (Short Message Service) is a widely used service for brief communication. Occasionally the data sent using SMS services is confidential in nature and is desired not to be disclosed to a third party. In this paper an application for sending encrypted SMS messages using cryptographic methods based on theory of quasigroups is proposed. The encryption algorithm is characterized by a secret key....

The Short Message Service (SMS) is one of the most ubiquitous wireless technologies on Earth. Each year hundreds of billions of messages are sent, demand continues to grow, and competition between cellular providers is driving prices down. These trends create practical opportunities for the use of SMS in mobile systems. In this paper we present the design and implementation of an SMS-based data...