Personal mobile devices are increasingly being used as platforms for interactive services. User acceptance of mobile services is not just based on usability but includes also other interrelated issues. Ease of use is important, but the services should also provide clear value to the user and they should be trustworthy and easy to adopt. These user acceptance factors form the core of the Technol...

Foresight scenarios indicated already in the late 1990’s that mobile commerce would become significant. The reasoning is simple: the rapid development of mobile technology will drive a growing mobile services industry which will be an integral and growing part of mobile commerce revenues. However, the adoption of new mobile services has been much slower than expected. Basic services such as SMS...

This paper applies and further develops a research model of the relationships between business model dimensions, intrinsic and extrinsic attributes of mobile services, and their perceived end-user values (Pedersen and Methlie, 2004). The model suggests a set of hypotheses on the effects of service providers’ choice of revenue model, governance form and service strategy on direct network effects...

Smart Mobile devices and web services are becoming very popular. Mobile devices are physically constrained devices; low processor speed, limited memory, limited battery, and slow intermit wireless connection. This implies to take in consideration these factors when implementing web services for mobile devices. In this paper, we evaluate the RESTful web service for mobile devices against convent...

Services are expected to be the next major evolution of mobile telephony. According to our data from Finland, mobile services are still being tried out by users. Only SMS and search services are being used on a larger, regular scale. Mobile services are used when they make everyday life easier or are found entertaining. High prices and inadequate supply restrict the diffusion of mobile services...

Although remarkable improvements in the growth of business applications for mobile devices have been made in recent years, the development in this area is still not as mature as it is for desktop computers. The development of services that can be fully functional in mobile environments and operable on a variety of devices is an important and complex task for the research community. This paper p...

Foresight scenarios indicated already in the late 1990es that mobile commerce would become a mainstream business with the growing number of mobile phones in the world; the estimate now is that we will reach 3 billion mobile phones by 2008. The reasoning is simple: with a global technology platform and growing numbers of developed mobile services, mobile commerce will become a huge industry. The...

Even though the literature on the adoption and use of mobile services is quite extensive, surprisingly few studies have been found that have applied traditional models of information and communication technology (ICT) adoption such as the technology acceptance model. This suggests different perspectives have been applied in studies of mobile ICT adoption and traditional ICT adoption. With the i...

Background: The health effect of rapidly increasing everyday exposure of humans to radiofrequency radiation is a major global concern. Mobile phone jammers prevent the mobile phones from receiving signals from base stations by interfering with authorized mobile carriers’ services. In spite of the fact that mobile jammer use is illegal, they are occasionally used in offices, shrines, confe...