The mobile services industry is going through a major transformation, which challenges many of the basic assumptions behind the existing business models. As the business paradigm shifts from voice-centric to data-centric mobile services, the ways of analyzing the industry need to evolve as well....

This book examines critical issues involved with telematics such as vehicular network infrastructure, vehicular network communication protocols, and vehicular services and applications. The collection provides useful techniques, tools, and assessments for those involved with computer science,...

"This book explores indoor navigation, tracking and monitoring, context-aware, alert systems, development enhancements, payments, etc. It contains case studies and practical mobile applications that clearly contribute for advances in the field of social inclusion"--

"This book focuses on the impact of new and innovative technologies on improving public service delivery in public and nonprofit organizations. It highlights how government adopts and implement digital solutions to public problems at all levels of governments. It also provides case studies...

"This book spans a number of interdependent and emerging topics in the area of legal protection of privacy and technology and explores the new threats that cyberspace poses to the privacy of individuals, as well as the threats that surveillance technologies generate in public spaces and in...

"This book offers the most relevant theories about culture and European market segmentation as well as providing updated data for the evaluation and analyses of the European consumption patterns in the beverage market"--Provided by publisher.

This book is a cyber terrorism brief that outlines many of the recent terrorist activities, political objectives, and their use of cyberspace. Much of this book is dedicated to illustrating the use of the global information infrastructure by terrorists for the communication and coordination of...

One of the driving forces that stimulated the emergence of database technology was the need to guarantee the quality of the data stored. The software design is impacted by the properties of the data. Data properties should be seen from a point of view as independently as possible from the...

1. Demyth-ifying feminism : reclaiming the "F" word -- 2. Dualisms and stereotypes : tools of domination -- 3. Gendered philosophy of science : science is male, nature is female -- 4. Mass media as social institution : the Wired example -- 5. Language as social institution : the male-centered IT...

As career and technical education continues to evolve, technology applications are rapidly becoming vital instruments for instructional training and valuable learning tools for the overall enhancement of student experience. This handbook provides an authoritative reference collection on leading...