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Modern Wi-Fi network has been a convinced way to connect to internet and widely accepted by people. Base on the Wi-Fi infra-structure, we can provide location-based services which could help to increase customers' experience and engagement in the services or activities provided by area owners. In this paper, we present a Wi-Fi hot zone based Location-Aware services which can dynamically cognize user's...
Users can use social network sites automatically, it comes from user's habit, it's a no-conscious action (Wohn et al., 2012). Therefore, users have interactions in social networks sites, it makes life well-being. At the same time, it creates postive effects. For the reason, there are more and more people who like to participate in social networks sites. In the research, the study try to use the concept...
This paper describes the advantages of using mobile devices and the so-called active learning method in higher education. The authors use their methodological experiences to include m-learning in their teaching process, focusing specifically on higher education and engineering students. The paper also describes the authors' motivation for expanding the existing e-learning projects with mobile learning...
Unemployment, especially among the youth, is a pressing issue in many rural areas. This paper proposes a model of local employment generation in rural or underdeveloped areas, which often do not have an adequate infrastructure (including wireless connectivity and uninterrupted electricity supply) to enable them to take advantage of technology. We assume that most people in such areas already possess...
Mobile phones offer benefits to various age group users in supporting their continuous learning. However, despite such advantages, users still have difficulties learning mobile phone applications interfaces. In the paper we investigate different methods used by two groups of mobile phone users, namely the younger and older groups, to improve their l earnability. We examine the errors made by both...
Network interfaces are present in a variety of battery powered computer systems, such as notebooks, ultrabooks, tablets and mobile phones. Considering that the battery life is still a constraint, there are opportunities for power management by reducing the power consumption of idle network interfaces. In this work, a dynamic timeout power policy for network interfaces is presented, incorporating workload...
The mobile signal in the elevator becomes weak because of the electromagnetic shielding effect of the elevator car, and it harmful to the user's health and interrupt the online business, to install signal amplifier in the elevator is a useful way to strengthen the mobile phone signal, however, the failure troubled the using of signal amplifier in the distributed environment, therefore, it is necessary...
Facebook® is a popular social network. There are approximately 1 billion registered users as of 2013. On the other hand, developing countries are starting to take advan- tage of the free platform and capabilities provided through facebook. The Island Kingdom of Tonga located in the South Pacific is also taking advantage of this social network. The secondary students of the Kingdom of Tonga are also...
This study developed a prediction model to understand the benefits generated by the number of users of social network site (SNS). The three aspects of network externality, number of members, number of peers, and perceived complementarily were used to discuss whether benefits are produced for users when the number of users continues to increase, and to explore the influences of user benefits on behavioral...
With the development of economic and information technology, more and more people use mobile phone to surf the internet. The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors of mobile phone data flow service adoption. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) is used as a theoretical framework, and survey data are collected from 537 Chinese nationals. The results from structural...
With the wireless network and mobile Internet development, the mobile phones are rapidly developed and more popular, and so it's becoming possible to get highway traffic information by locating the mobile phones in vehicles. The system structure for the highway traffic information collection is designed based on wireless network and mobile phones in vehicles, and the vehicle recognition and its information...
The consensus explanation of Apple's commercial success has been put down to the excellent design of its products and the intuitiveness of the products' user interfaces. This paper uses a case study of Apple and its recent products to explain its commercial success and build a conceptual model of product-service offerings. Apple's key innovation was the bundling of its products with a service (iTunes,...
With the rapid development of mobile Internet and e-commerce, mobile marketing is no longer an emerging trend — it is one that is already here and affects our daily lives deeply. Mobile marketing offers direct communication with consumers anytime and anyplace. The paper first explores the global developing trend of mobile internet based on the collected data. Then it focuses on a general analysis...
During the recent years, we can observe how mobile devices entered in the lives of people, becoming their main personal assistants and helping in various daily tasks. However not just mobile devices have evolved. And others electronic devices we use every day also experienced changes that have become smarter as the example of home devices. All these devices interconnected in the same environment or...
Kenya has a vision to create a globally competitive and prospective nation with a high quality of life by 2030. In order to achieve this, it developed a social pillar that aims at improving the quality of life through projects that are health related. We propose a project that aims at contributing to this vision by ensuring that health related information is accessible to all through an affordable...
In rural Africa, where land-based Internet connectivity is a huge problem due to a lack of infrastructure, wireless Internet connectivity and the adoption of mobile devices are a huge success. However, when it comes to mobile payments, Africa still has a long way to go. The biggest concerns with mobile payment applications are a lack of readily available banks, vendors and other shops that can accept...
Most South African citizens are confronted daily with problems of accessing basic public services. With the mandate of carrying out research and development intended to improve lives of ordinary South Africans the role of research institutions such as the CSIR's Meraka is important. This allows these research and development organisations to be reliable partners to Governments in their endeavour to...
With the swift progress of information and technology, the notion of e-Government and e-Society has occupied a substantial contour which is now acting as one of the main drivers to reform the prevailing society in different countries of the world. More and more governments around the world chase this phenomenon anticipating to lessen costs, develop services and upturn effectiveness and proficiency...
Rapid development of mobile and wireless technologies pointed to the potential in using the mobile channel as a supplement to increase the usage and accessibility of e-Government services. The unique proposition of the mobile channel and its emerging technologies also offered unprecedented opportunities for the Government to provide timely, personalised and innovative e-services which is not possible...
We present the Liberouter framework, a complete communication system design (and its implementation) to enable neighborhood networking without relying on the Internet infrastructure for information exchange. The core is a low-cost router platform that serves as WLAN access points, individual or (dis)connected ones, and offers message storage and relaying in combination with a distributed app store...
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