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Proliferation of mobile technologies usage in emerging regions represents an opportunity for leveraging the benefits of mobile ICTs by rural communities. Despite the availability of reliable mobile connectivity infrastructure and a relatively high penetration of mobile devices in rural areas of emerging economies such as South Africa, the use of mobile phones is primarily for voice communication purpose...
The ever-accelerating growth of cloud-based services (CBS) and the prevalence of multi-sided business models have distributed users' data across different data silos that hinder mobile applications development and sustainability. The present paper aims at describing an open framework that abstracts functionality from CBSs through a common Graph, RESTful API, which manages calls among various CBS APIs...
In spite of several efforts in the last decade by researchers and educators, expected potential from the use of mobile device technology (MDT) to effect learning transformation is largely unfulfilled. Quantifying benefits of MDTs in learning, either through achievement of learning objectives or enhancement of the process, remains problematic. Rapid changes in development and manufacture also continue...
This paper takes the college students as the research object and collect relevant data through survey. Then we use the ecology thought to analyze the impact that the WeChat has on the mobile communication. The conclusion provides some reference for operators to decide the next step for further development.
This research involves the activities of lesson study that has been running for about five years ago by a Teacher Learning Communities (KGB) in Subang — Cianjur, West Java. These activities consist of Planning (Plan), Implementation (Do) and Reflection(See). After process See is finished, Mobile Learning Lesson Study (MLLS) then built as a learning system based on mobile devices in order to support...
The paper explores the dramatic changes that are imposed on Mobile Networks Business Models, due to introduction of All-IP Network technology. It looks at existing value chains from an architectural viewpoint and how they are affected due to the All-IP transformation. It analyses the value chain for the various parties in this ecosystem (operators, network equipment vendors, Appstores and OTT1 providers).
A new Cloud@Home paradigm aims at merging the benefits of cloud computing—service-oriented interfaces, dynamic service provisioning, and guaranteed QoS—with those of volunteer computing—capitalized idle resources and reduced operational costs.
This paper proposes a novel mobile community service platform that enables a mobile phone to promote collaborations that are more advanced. Our research contributes in two folds. First, as a service design framework, a model of a mobile community is defined in which each member has a role and corresponding task to achieve a common goal. Second, the proposed platform provides a running and development...
The high penetration of mobile devices is an indicator showing their impact to our daily life, witnessed via the diverse services offered through them. In the energy domain they can be used as a tool for bidirectional communication between the energy prosumers and the other envisioned actors in the SmartGrid. Most trials today require additional hardware installations at user's side in order to collect...
Mobile terminals provide an increasingly important communication channel in facilitating social connections [1].There is a large number of terminal-based social applications appear in our lives and more and more traditional SNS community begin to offer their services on mobile terminals. However, the research we conduct shows that most of the traditional SNS communities in the provision of mobile...
Nowadays, tourism is no longer luxury consumption for the ordinary people. After ten years of rapid development, the tourism in China has become a pillar industry of the national economy. Along with the development of the Internet, the online tourism is growing stronger. Many online Tourism practitioners grope for the new approach continuously, and make every effort to realize the Internet enclosure...
Evolution of 4G technology : Mobile Broadband is doing to internet what mobile phone did to telephony — bringing it anywhere, anytime. Driven by personalization and always-on internet demand, Mobile broadband is becoming a natural part of daily life and we believe that broadband will become a necessity. This section will cover how the mobile networks need to evolve from primarily voice centric networks...
This study attempts to understand factors affecting mobile virtual community continuous usage. Based on Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA), continuous usage of mobile service and sense of virtual community, a continuous usage model that reflects the characteristics of a mobile virtual community is developed. The model is tested in China and Korea, using responses from 248 administered valid questionnaires...
Along with the in-depth development of Web2.0, a variety of social contacts has increased via communities and networks. Likewise, a high-level demand for E-commerce has been stimulated. Therefore, Social Commerce, as an innovative business model, which results from the combination of social media and E-commerce, gradually sets foot into the research field of vision. This study, with the methods of...
The ratio of 3G users among wireless subscribers reached 95 %, and the ratio of fiat-rate users reached approximately 50 % in Japan, in 2009. This creates an ideal mobile broadband environment for rich media services. Constraints and diversity as well as the speed of changes, represent the challenges in the development of mobile services. There are several different stage views of the mobile service...
Due to the widespread development of mobile internet, more and more users will transfer to mobile virtual community from web community. This study attempts to understand factors affecting the adoption of mobile virtual community in addition to those affecting other mobile services. An adoption model that reflects the characteristics of mobile virtual community is developed. The model consists of the...
Mobile technologies are unique, ubiquitous, provide convenience for the user, can be highly interactive and support personalised applications. This paper describes the use of mobile applications in the context of local sporting associations. These form part of a larger group known as community based organisations and are predominantly run by volunteers. The study considered the process from initial...
For mobile commerce applications are increasingly accepted, we construct a conceptual model to evaluate the effect of parasocial interaction of adopting mobile commerce application and service. And the technological and individual barriers will moderate the relationship between parasocial interaction and adoption intention.
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