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Users of mobile devices face the problem of guarding their gadgets every time they are outdoors. Theft of laptops is the 3rd most frequent computer crime after virus and hacking. The really scary part is that according to FBI, 1 in 10 laptops purchased today will be stolen within the next 12 months. Sadly, only 3 percent will be returned. Occasionally, laptops and mobile devices are also lost due...
The Great East Japan Earthquake hit on March 11, 2011, and it caused serious damages over Japan. The area of the disaster was extremely wide, and new types of problems have been widely known in compared with previous earthquakes. The authors have studied a safety confirmation system for the students in the University of Shizuoka, Japan, since 1999 in order to consider with Tokai Great Disaster. However,...
Cellular text messaging services are increasingly being relied upon to disseminate critical information during emergencies. Accordingly, a wide range of organizations including colleges and universities now partner with third-party providers that promise to improve physical security by rapidly delivering such messages. Unfortunately, these products do not work as advertised due to limitations of cellular...
Since the mobile devices, such as mobile phone, pocket PC and PDA, have been more and more popular with the development of Internet and mobile technology, the development of urban public transport navigating system becomes an important accessory and value-added service for people. In this paper, the urban public transport navigating inquiries system of Fuzhou is developed with Visual C #. NET and...
The spread of the Internet throughout society has sparked a revolution in the way many areas of knowledge are promoted. Geographic information systems (GIS) are, potentially, such an area. By distributing geospatial information and ways to manipulate it across the Web, a universal broadcast service is achieved, allowing users to access data anywhere. Geographic information (GI) is usually the realm...
In the evolving ubiquitous Internet landscape, users are willing to play a more central role by modeling and reshaping the Web experience upon their needs. They begin perceiving and exploiting the Web as a platform to collaboratively create and share contents and to communicate with each other. Moreover, they want to decide how to access services and contents, freeing themselves from traditional fixed...
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