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A case study of MMO2's Madic: A framework for creating mobile internet systems
Mobile Internet applications on ubiquitous mobile networks allows real-time, anywhere, anytime connectivity to services. Due to its scalability and potential cost savings, mobile communication is being increasingly applied in the business and consumer communities to create innovative data and voice application, which run over the Internet infrastructure. This paper reports on a case study at an organisation that created an innovative approach to developing mobile applications developed by third party independent developers. A conceptual wireless reference model is presented that was used to define the various system components required to create effective mobile applications
An Architectural Framework for Collaboration of Heterogeneous Communication Devices Using WAP and Mobile Device Augmented(MDA)Gateway Integration
Within the last couple of years, the challenge of displaying collaborative multimedia
information has become very important with the large diversity of communication devices
such as Personal Computers, laptops, notebooks and handheld devices. The shared data
and information may be presented with different views depending on the communication
device used by a particular collaborator. The use of various web tools (HTML, WML etc)
offers some solutions to the problem but if the target application requires more complex
features such as rich multimedia data than is manageable using HTML or WML format,
something else need to be done. In this paper, we propose a framework that integrates WAP
and MDA Gateway to support collaboration among virtual teams and nomadic workers
using heterogeneous communication devices. We then discuss an approach for augmenting
mobile device small screen capabilities with surrounding large screen display device
Assessment of Today’s Mobile Banking Applications from the View of Customer Requirements
Mobile banking is a subset of electronic banking which underlies not only the determinants of the banking business but also the special conditions of mobile commerce. This paper analyzes customer needs and expectations from the mobile applications’ view and from the banking view in order to derive a defined set of requirements. Based on these results, existing mobile banking applications are assessed. Their major shortcomings are explained, opportunities for their improvement are shown and the impact of upcoming new technology is discussed. The outcome of the paper is a defined set of customer requirements to mobile banking applications, the identification and assessment of four standard types of current mobile banking applications and an explanation of major failure reasons along with opportunities for their improvement.
The Prospects of M-Voting Implementation in Nigeria
Since independence, an average of 50% of registered voters participates in voting [1].
Similarly, an increasing rate of apathy was observed between the electorate and the elect,
which was not unconnected with lack of transparency, accountability, and probity on the
part of government [2]. Thus the electorate did not see the need to subject itself to any
stress. Consequently, government is very committed to implementing the forth coming
elections through e-voting. This paper proposes the prospects of m-voting implementation
in Nigeria through the use of mobile phones, PDAs, etc. with guaranteed security, secrecy,
and convenience in a democratization process. It also reviews the level of adoption of GSM
in Nigeria, the implication of voting through the GSM, and finally introducing m-voting
innovation in the voting process to increase voters’ access and participation rate in
election
Mobile Internet Applications, Infrastructure and Services
Mobile communication and the mobile Internet can provide important opportunities,
economic advantages for enterprises end organisations and support their more efficient
operating as they can be used anytime and anywhere. We can make their wide spread
use, innovative effects and advantages economical if we consider the effect system of
technologies and services. The technological, social and economical complex effect
system puts a pressure on the spreading of business applications. The types of
applicable equipment are increasing. The Internet technology and the Internet network
have become essential communication tools in business processes recently. Using the
Internet by means of mobile appliances increases the possibilities. By studying the
business process the expenses, advantages, disadvantages can well be seen. Nowadays
these applications are more and more successful in areas such as agriculture, different
parts of the food industry, extension services, precision agriculture and logistics. It can
be stated that the international and the Hungarian development tendencies of the mobile
Internet, the RTD Programmes of EU help the wide-spread use of mobile services. The
rapid development of the Hungarian domestic mobile market over the last years is the
basis for the wide spread use of new broadband mobile services and applications. This
system can contribute to the development of agriculture, enterprises and rural areas and
can support production, commerce, services and product tracing. But for successful
applications we have to consider the impact factors
Mobile Commerce and Applications: An Exploratory Study and Review
Mobile commerce is enabling the development of additional revenue streams for
organizations through the delivery of chargeable mobile services. According to
the European Information Technology Observatory, the total amount of revenue
generated by mobile commerce was reported to be less than {\pounds}9 million in
the United Kingdom in 2001. By 2005 this had, at least, doubled and more recent
industry forecasts project significant global growth in this area. Mobile
commerce creates a range of business opportunities and new revenue streams for
businesses across industry sectors via the deployment of innovative services,
applications and associated information content. This paper presents a review
of mobile commerce business models and their importance for the creation of
mobile commerce solutions.Comment: Journal of Computing online at
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A Multi-channel Application Framework for Customer Care Service Using Best-First Search Technique
It has become imperative to find a solution to the dissatisfaction in response by mobile
service providers when interacting with their customer care centres. Problems faced with
Human to Human Interaction (H2H) between customer care centres and their customers
include delayed response time, inconsistent solutions to questions or enquires and lack of
dedicated access channels for interaction with customer care centres in some cases.
This paper presents a framework and development techniques for a multi-channel
application providing Human to System (H2S) interaction for customer care centre of a
mobile telecommunication provider. The proposed solution is called Interactive Customer
Service Agent (ICSA). Based on single-authoring, it will provide three media of interaction
with the customer care centre of a mobile telecommunication operator: voice, phone and
web browsing. A mathematical search technique called Best-First Search to generate
accurate results in a search environmen
Development tools for mobile devices in market price information systems
There are already several applications on mobile devices that can be useful in agriculture. For example:
GPS-enabled map software, individual cattle identification and tracking software and even complex
agricultural systems. These are just beginning to spread in the Hungarian agrifood sector. The possibility
of using for agribusiness of mobile internet and mobile tools is increasing. Mobile tools are really suitable
for tasks like inspecting the evolution of prices of agricultural products. One of our application
development is a mobile extension to access the Market Price Information System run by the Hungarian
Agricultural Economics Research Institute. The accessibility of information demanded by market actors
can be ensured effectively by using mobile tools. The biggest limitation for PDA is screen size. If it is
getting smaller from full screen to PDA-sized and yet further to mobile phone dimensions, user
performance drops. The main reason for this is that smaller screens make it more difficult for a user to
make good judgements about the usefulness of any particular information. The development methods and
tools help us to solve one part of these problems
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