This research aims to examine the correlations of perceived flow, perceived system quality, perceived information quality and perceived user trust on mobile social networking service (SNS) users’ loyalty. Investigation of correlation between perceived user trust with perceived flow and user loyalty were also performed. Two hundred students were the subjects of a Malaysian university to answer s...

The increased usage of mobile devices, equipped with digital cameras, has allowed users to take photographs and share them more easily and more quickly than in the past. Everyday thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of photos are uploaded to social networking websites using computers and mobile devices. It has been said that "a picture is worth a thousand words" but now we must consider the...

BACKGROUND Diabetes is a major health care burden in the Middle East region. Social networking tools can contribute to the management of diabetes with improved educational and care outcomes using these popular tools in the region. OBJECTIVE The objective of this review was to evaluate the impact of social networking interventions on the improvement of diabetes management and health outcomes i...

Due to the explosive growth of data volume by mobile devices and SNS(Social Networking Service), Big Data has recently become one of the important issues in the networking world. Big traffic is generated as Big Data processing steps and multiple regionally distributed data centers are included, and/or data are delivered among clusters for the purpose of storage hierarchy management. Therefore, ...

h 1 The pervasive presence of mobile personal devices like smarthones, tablets, and similar smart devices, together with the masive use of online social networking services (e.g., Facebook, Twiter, Google Plus, LinkedIn, etc.) are increasingly creating a cyberhysical space where users can interact exploiting and generatng information. Enriched with several sensing capabilities and etworking int...

Location Based Services (LBS) is one of the emerging technologies in the mobile, networking and information services. LBS, the branch of computer program-level services used in various fields and support, the application are broadly classified as Maps and Navigation, Information service, Tracking service, Games, Social networking, Vehicular navigation and Advertising. Location is mainly determi...

The mobile Internet offers anytime, anywhere access to a wealth of information to billions of users across the globe. However, the mobile Internet represents a challenging information access platform due to the inherent limitations of mobile environments, limitations that go beyond simple screen size and network issues. Mobile users often have information needs which are impacted by contexts su...

We propose a new approach to collaborative filtering in mobile tourist information systems based on spatio-temporal proximity in social contexts. Users store ratings and reviews of locations and events locally within their personal information system and then exchange these with other users present in the same social contexts using ad-hoc networking and opportunistic information sharing. We des...