The development of mobile services has become a popular issue for companies in a mature internet environment. To successfully implement mobile services, companies must be adequately involved in the unprecedented innovation activities. However, for companies to buy into the service, it is essential for them to perceive the value of the service and actually achieve that level of value. With this ...

The plethora of actors, the complexity of relationships and the variety of information and financial flows affecting the mobile entertainment arena today, have created a series of challenging business opportunities for entrepreneurs and key market players. The evolving and quite promising mobile music market, however, is suffering from the luck of integrated theoretical frameworks critical for ...

We believe the specific development of applications for mobile devices is the most important issue for ensuring the integration of mobile computing within the medical industry. This must reflect the individual device design and the individual user groups.

In June 1997 an industry consortium announced that it was working on a mobile extension of the Open Group’s Network Computer Reference Profile [NCRP] to address the unique requirements of the many new mobile computing devices. (For participating firms, see the sidebar Consortium Members.)This specification will propose a set of standards for developers deploying a Java-based lightweight network...

Healthcare professionals spend much of their time wandering between patients and offices, while the supportive technology stays stationary. Therefore, mobile applications has adapted for healthcare industry. In spite of the advancement and variety of available mobile based applications, there is an eminent need to investigate the current position of the acceptance of those mobile health applica...

E-commerce continues to grow however this will not mature until it becomes truly mobile information available anywhere, anytime and to anybody. Applying mobile access to computing creates both tremendous commercial opportunities and complexity. It is becoming increasingly portable, as well as convenient as the wireless terminals can be installed in automobile dashboards and embedded in all mann...