Mobile and Wireless

Use of Mobile Devices A study was carried out in Singapore to investigate the extent to which mobile devices are used in e-commerce compared to fixed-network devices. Singapore was chosen due to the fact that it has one of the highest ... [full story]

Penetration of Mobile Devices In a 2001 report by Datamonitor, in the United States, titled "U.S. Mobile Devices to 2006, a Land of Opportunities," it was stated that there were 81.7 million mobile phone shipments in the United States by 2001. ... [full story]

Limitations of Mobile Devices While mobile devices make it easier for users to communicate and exchange information on the move, many of the users still get frustrated when they try to carry out e-commerce transactions using their mobile devices. This is ... [full story]

Mobile Commerce E-commerce is a term used to describe business conducted using electronic means. Young in 1995 stated that "Electronic Commerce is the buying and selling of goods and services where part, if not all, of commercial transaction occurs over an ... [full story]

Usability Issues and Limitations of Mobile Devices Suliman Al-Hawamdeh, University of Oklahoma, USA Copyright © 2004, Idea Group Inc. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of Idea Group Inc. is prohibited. Abstract Due to the fast development ... [full story]

Future Trends of Wireless Middleware From what we described above, wireless middleware has grown from the traditional middleware background to having a life of its own. The early attempts of stating that standard wired middleware products are "suitable for wireless" have ... [full story]

Wireless Middleware Services Security Security is essential in a wireless system. As wireless communications cannot be physically secured, the needs of wireless access present a new series of challenges. Wireless access to enterprise systems puts not only the client device, but also ... [full story]

JMS Wireless Transport Protocol JMS involves the use of a ConnectionFactory-administered object to create a Connection object. The Connection object is an active connection to a JMS provider. The Connection object, in turn, is used to create the Session and, subsequently, ... [full story]

JMS in Commercial Wireless Middleware Products While it can be said that commercial wireless products change rapidly, it is useful to consider the commercial products available at the time of writing. The reader is advised to check the references of these ... [full story]

The JMS API The JMS API allows applications to create, send, receive, and read messages. Messages can arrive asynchronously, meaning the client does not have to specifically request messages in order to receive them. In addition, the programmer can specify different ... [full story]

Wireless Networking As middleware is dependent on the network protocol being used, the effectiveness of the underlying transport protocol must be considered. Implementing MOM Using the Java Message Service The Java Message Service (JMS) developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. is part of the ... [full story]

Wireless Middleware Challenges and Requirements Wireless middleware, as a specialized subset of middleware, has come into demand due to the proliferation of wireless networks. Additionally, in the last few years, there has been an upsurge in the development of the mobile ... [full story]

Types of Middleware As middleware has been around for some time, different types have been developed for different applications. The traditional types of middleware have been used for enterprise application integration since the mid 1990s. Traditional Middleware Messaging Middleware Message-oriented middleware (MOM), is specifically ... [full story]

Wireless Middleware Ken MacGregor, University of Cape Town, South Africa Nico de Wet, University of Cape Town, South Africa Bonnie Lam, University of Cape Town, South Africa Nadim Yazdani, University of Cape Town, South Africa Copyright © 2004, Idea Group Inc. ... [full story]

Altman's Z-Score Discriminant Function Algorithm In order to attempt to determine the early onset of an inflection point, we are fortunate to have available to us the pioneering work of Edward I. Altman, a professor at the Stern School of Business ... [full story]

Inflection Point Analysis Inflection point analysis (IPA) is extremely helpful in determining when leverage points are in transition. [18] Inflection points are defined as points of major change in any being, one relative to another. In people, inflection points may be ... [full story]

Slope Analysis Another tool that helps provide insight when reviewing business trends and performance comes from a suite of tools coined "Slope Analysis." Slope analysis is based on graphing trends of key variables over time (in the above case, unit price ... [full story]

A Bottoms-Up Approach A bottoms-up approach mandates that we look at the investment required to reach the market we are after. Here, we can view some investments by AT&T. After a disappointing attempt to capture "last mile customers" with an "almost ... [full story]

Top Down, Bottoms-Up Reconciliation Model Most industry analysts and Wall Street bankers, as well as large corporate financial professionals, are well versed in creating top-down analyses. That is, they are used to undertaking "aggregate" market studies and valuations based on third-party-study ... [full story]

Disruptive Technology From Figure 4, we see that newer disruptive technologies are being adopted in shorter intervals. [14] Figure 4: Technology Adoption Rates Contrasting the adoption rate for the Internet seen in Figure 4, in Table 7, we see that ... [full story]

Disruptive Technologies and Schumpeter's Creative Destruction Model Just as a number of jurisdictions awarded Western Wireless "Eligible Carrier Status," signaling improved competitive operating conditions for wireless providers versus land-line carriers, the FCC and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) have ... [full story]

These Significant Trends Favor Wireless over Land Lines What this high-level analysis indicates is that the world of telecom service providers and telecom equipment manufacturers is going to change dramatically. Clearly, defining where we are today is not so difficult, and ... [full story]

State Gap and Trend Analysis An important analytical tool is the State, Gap, and Trend Analysis (SG&TA). [3] The SG&TA permits us to conceptually define where we are today and project to where we think the market will be at some ... [full story]

Market Drivers The concept of market drivers is fundamental to understanding, developing, and prosecuting a winning business case. A driver may be defined as a market fundamental that is basic to meeting a buyer's criteria, need, or desire to have a ... [full story]

System Evaluation To evaluate the performance of the implemented system, some simple experiments were conducted to see if the agents are able to track the user's preference. The computer used in this experiment is a Pentium 4 operating under the Windows ... [full story]

Design of Product-Brokering Agent A product-brokering agent can be used to search for all kinds of products. In our application, the agent will be used to search for some computer products, namely, CPU, Mainboard, and Memory. It is possible to extend ... [full story]

Related Work Personalized product-brokering agents require a profile of the user in order to function effectively. The agent would also have to be responsive to changes in the user's interests and be able to search and extract relevant information from outside ... [full story]

Global M-Commerce Market Overview The growing importance of m-commerce is fueled by the phenomenal growth in the wireless market in general. Shown in Figure 4 is the growth experienced in the wireless device market as well as in the subscriber base ... [full story]

M-Commerce Consumer Business Applications In this section, various business applications targeting the mobile consumer will be reviewed, and how they address the interdependence of the three areas already discussed in this chapter (i.e., wireless technology, m-consumer interaction, m-consumer needs/concerns) will be ... [full story]

Addressing M-Consumer Concerns Several companies positioned themselves to play a multifaceted role in this industry, thus creating an entirely new business landscape, where players often have overlapping roles. The mobile value chain becomes more intimate and dynamic, possibly with multiple interactions ... [full story]

Matching M-Commerce Needs and Concerns The consumer concerns associated with m-commerce identified in the previous section may apply to more than one area of mobile applications. As Table 2 illustrates, the four m-commerce consumer application areas exhibit similar concerns, with cost, ... [full story]

M-Consumer Concerns A wide range of consumer concerns arise within the m-commerce environment. The main concerns are summarized below: Privacy: In the information context, privacy refers to a user's fear of other people/organizations knowing what he or she is interested in ("Big ... [full story]