"This book assesses the state of nanotechnology and microelectronics, and examines many issues, such as climate change, trade, innovation, diffusion, etc, with a theme focused on facilitating the structures for the adoption and penetration of the technologies into developing nations"--Provided...

This book covers themes such as handheld computing for mobile commerce, handheld computing research and technologies, wireless networks and handheld/mobile security, and handheld images and video. It includes research and development results in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, and...

"This book reviews concepts relating to the design, development, evaluation, and application of mobile technologies, including how mobile user interfaces, mobile learning, and mobile commerce contribute to the growing body of knowledge on this discipline"--Provided by publisher.

1. Contemporary issues in handheld computing research / Wen-Chen Hu ... [et al.] -- 2. Opportunistic software deployment in disconnected mobile ad hoc networks / Frédéric Guidec, Nicolas Le Sommer, Yves Mahéo -- 3. The impact of zoning concept on data-flow management within LBS system...

A 2D barcode validation system for mobile commerce / David Kuo ... [et al.] -- Threshold-based location-aware access control / Roel Peeters, Dave Singelée, Bart Preneel -- Survivability enhancing techniques for RFID Systems / Yanjun Zuo -- Mobile agent based network defense system in enterprise...

Section I. Mobile Commerce Systems and Handheld Devices -- 1. Fundamentals of Mobile Commerce Systems -- 2. Mobile Commerce Applications -- 3. Mobile Handheld Devices -- 4. Essential Mobile-Commerce Technology --

Introduction: why the gender divide in computer games is an important and timely issue -- The computer game industry, market, and culture -- Games and society: can games make a better world? -- Play preferences and the gendering of gaming -- Representation, image, and identity -- Game workers...

Technology innovation adoption and diffusion: a contrast of perspectives / Michael Workman -- IT/IS readiness maturity model / Mustafa Alshawi, Hafez Salleh -- RFID and labor management systems selection in the logistics industry / Cheryl A. Tibus, Linda L. Brennan -- Adoption of a new online...

This book offers a distinctive understanding of new infrastructures for knowledge production based in science and technology studies. This field offers a unique potential to assess systematically the prospects for new modes of science enabled by information and communication technologies. The...

1. Information systems success and failure--two sides of one coin, or different in nature? : an exploratory study / Jeremy Fowler, Pat Horan -- 2. Achieving sustainable tailorable software systems by collaboration between end-users and developers / Jeanette Eriksson, Yvonne Dittrich -- 3....