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With mobile commerce technology continuously being taken more into use and introduced in new markets, the transition to mobile commerce (m-commerce) will make mobile shopping exceedingly popular. In the near future mobile shopping will probably replace today's markets or shopping complex. This project presents a mobile application which is built using Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) of the...
Considering the significant growth in mobile phone use by customers and its high accessibility, this device can be considered as the most suitable tool in payment category. To implement a mobile payment service, there are many actors involved such as: bank, operator and service provider. As an effective interaction role and in order to optimize efficient parameters for implementing a mobile payment...
This study aims to explain the factors determining multiple subscriptions in the Swedish mobile phone market. A generalized Poisson model of count data from a national survey in Sweden finds that business subscriptions and house-hold size are the main predictors of the multiple mobile phone subscriptions, along with individual demographic characteristics such as, age, gender and type of occupation...
With the increasing penetration rate of mobile phone in China, there has also been a growth in the mobile advertising. However, due to the limitation of limited information in mobile advertising, mobile advertising often cause consumer antipathy because the content of mobile advertising was not design personalized to match consumer's need. The aim of paper is to explore factors affecting consumers...
The proliferation and rapid development of telecommunication and wireless computing have created new capabilities that can be utilized by both businesses and individuals. Location-based commerce/service (LBS), one of the mobile and wireless commerce applications, is an electronic transaction targeted to individuals in specific locations at specific times. This paper aims at presenting the first of...
This paper presents a mobile phone application which brings two new features into social networks: an advertising service and a location based service. With this application, mobile operators will play a central role in an advertising chain comprising businesses, mobile operators and online communities. Thus, the mobile phone becomes a powerful tool to share consumer and travelers experiences. This...
Recently, new and sophisticated mobile commerce applications, especially location-based services applications, have been emerging very fast, which demands a closer attention to their use, technology and business models. As a result, new business models designed specifically for the mobile arena have started to emerge. Moreover, mobile commerce is generating considerable interest and has led to the...
Compare with the voice service, mobile data service is more complex. It has many types of services according to different network resources and the customers' habits. It is found that mobile data business model plays an important role in helping operator understand the customers' habits, and market promotion. It can also be used in network optimization. The old ways to get the mobile data service...
Shortly after the advent of digital mobile phone service, a new innovative way of doing business known as mobile commerce (M-commerce) was created. Mobile commerce has been a huge success in terms of individualspsila adoption in some markets like Japan, while, surprisingly, not as flourishing in others. This article reviews the technology behind M-commerce and the products and services currently available...
With the advancement in mobile technology, many business activities can be conducted through wireless networks. M-commerce is experiencing rapid growth in terms of capabilities of mobile devices, services, applications, standards and network implementation. However, we are still facing some important factors that influence m-commerce adoption and development. The implications of these factors are...
Mobile phones are widely recognized as a potentially transformative technology platform for developing nations. However, for designers and programmers in the developed world to create viable applications for mobile phones involves first identifying and communicating user requirements for diverse users. We define diverse users as those from a substantively different cultural context than that in which...
This paper advances a new concept, quasi-subscribers, to define the incidence of mobile phone multiple subscriptions. Through survey data, the paper shows that in Sweden the number of quasi-subscribers constitutes a significant portion of the mobile phone subscribers. Hence, there is a significant bias in the traditional method of measuring mobile subscribers which is mostly based on the number of...
This paper is to discuss several fields: the importance to mobile phone game, the prospect of LBS, the bottlenecks of LBS development, techniques of LBS being utilized currently, the features among different LBS techniques and apply LBS for developers.
This paper is to discuss what the mobile phone multiplayer game architectures and types are, and what their features are. Then, the paper points out the reasons of why multiplayer game is important in mobile phone serious games. Finally, the paper provides solutions on how are the prospects and barriers in mobile phone multiplayer game.
Mobile commerce (m-commerce) is the buying and selling of goods and services through wireless handheld devices such as cellular telephone and personal digital assistants (PDA). This research focuses on the use of mobile devices for shopping. The normal shopping process involves a human visiting each store and perusing the items available. A purchase decision is then made based on the information gathered...
The emerging wireless and mobile networks have extended electronic commerce to another research and application subject: mobile commerce. This creates new opportunities for customers to conduct business from any location at any time. One of the important uses of mobile applications is transforming the mobile phone into a mobile wallet with digital cash that supports both anonymity (as real cash) and...
On dynamic embedded webserver, cgi program is adopted to complete the required workflow. Due to the resource limitation of embedded systems, the performance of embedded webserver is an important issue. To address this problem, we combine cgi with WMLscript and make them collaboratively running to satisfy the requirement of mobile phone. On embedded server, cgi processes the parameters submitted by...
Improve the dynamic interaction between embedded device and mobile phone is an important issue in WAP domain. To address this problem, we make cgi, WMLscript and embedded database collaboratively running to fulfill the requirements of mobile phone. On embedded device, cgi receive the parameters submitted by mobile phone and query the database, it appends the results to the end of wml page and send...
Recent studies show that the number of mobile devices has already exceeded the number of personal computers. Contradictorily, the commerce conducted via the mobile devices (ldquoM-Commercerdquo) is far less than that of internet (ldquoE-Commercerdquo). This paper looks into the context of the mobile commerce from the dimensions of application scenarios and user acceptance. Spinning out from these...
Recent studies show that the number of mobile devices has already exceeded the number of personal computers. Contradictorily, the commerce conducted via the mobile devices ("M-Commerce") is far less than that of Internet ("E-Commerce"). This paper looks into the context of the mobile commerce from two dimensions. (i) The framework of mobile payment system, the mobile payment model,...
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