The concept ‘contentious expertise’ is proposed to account for technological expertise applied in controversies. Activists from the Chaos Computer Club, a German hacker group, adapted contentious when they built so-called clone of mobile phone SIM card 1998, and used publicly make call — free charge. activists blamed secret design cards, subsequently, was changed made fully public. activists’ t...

We analyze the relation between mobile phone use – Internet in particular and employment, self-employment job regularity Uganda. find no evidence of any positive impact on employment or quality, suggesting that either respondents do not for search practices as a tool, these uses are ineffective. However, we adoption basic phones positively related to argue regulators should focus promoting affo...

This paper tried to understand the problems encountered by the elderly while using mobile phones through their user models. The purpose was to show the different dimensions of the discrepancies between user and designers models regarding mobile phones. Protocol analysis, structural hinting, and coaching methods were applied in the usability test. The results showed the different levels of opera...

This study examines social actor attribution to mobile phones in general settings and travel context. Informed by attribution theory and computing technology continuum of perspective model, the hypothesized relationships between social characteristics of mobile phones, users’ core selfevaluation, and social actor attribution to mobile phones were tested to determine the locus of causality of pe...

The recent years have shown a tendency where computers have become more and more portable to fit the needs of users on the move. This tendency has further been strengthened by the growth in the mobile phones user base in parallel with the increasing computational capacity of the mobile phones. Today, mobile phones have the same computational capacity of the late 80’s computers with one importan...

Introduction: The continuous rapid growth of the telecommunications industry and common application of cell phones have raised debates on the human health risks associated with exposure to radio frequency fields due to these phones or their base stations and other sources such as radar, radio/television waves, and industrial and medical applications. This study aimed to invest...

The Internet, and more recently mobile phones has seen tremendous growth over the past few years. This paper examines the adoption of the Internet and WAP-enabled mobile phones in Singapore. Specifically, we compare users of WAP-phones and non-WAP phones in terms of profile of Internet users, Internet activities and issues relating to WAP-enabled mobile phones. The results provide researchers a...