The two leading online consumer-to-consumer platforms use very different revenue models: eBay.com in the United States uses a brokerage model in which sellers pay eBay on a transaction basis, whereas Taobao.com in China uses an advertising model in which sellers can use basic platform service...

We review research on revenue models used by online firms who offer digital goods. Such goods are non-rival, have near zero marginal cost of production and distribution, low marginal cost of consumer search, and low transaction costs. Additionally, firms can easily observe and measure consumer...

Social Networking has become a new buzzword in day to day life of youngsters and gained immense popularity during the past few years. Many network sites such as Facebook and MySpace are claiming to have millions of members and the membership is increasing day by day. The paper aims to understand...

Social Networking has become a new buzzword in day to day life of youngsters and gained immense popularity during the past few years. Many network sites such as Facebook and MySpace are claiming to have millions of members and the membership is increasing day by day. The paper aims to understand...

After the birth of the Internet, the rise of Web 2.0, here comes the Internet of Things. Internet has led us to adopt special law, digital economy law…Web 2.0 has urged us to rethink core legal concepts such as liability and ownership and introduce notions such as sharing and availability. The...

Research suggests the future of the Internet will be defined by ubiquitous computing: a networked environment in which smart objects, called 'Things,' are imbued with identification data and micro-processing power to form an Internet of Things (IoT). Data production across the Internet continues...

This paper presents Halos Networks as a competitive architectural paradigm for developing future Internet of-with Things. A Halos Network is like a wireless network spontaneously emerging through the interactions of distributed resources embedding wireless communication capabilities. Halos...

The Machine to Machine (M2M) Market, according to Digital Research (2012) was 121 bn. $ in 2010, and was estimated by Digital Research to be 948 bn. $ for 2020. The so-called non-connectivity revenue (no human implication) will rise from 3% in 2010 to 25% in 2017, meaning no human interaction...

Background: Smart buildings are one of the major application areas of technologies bound to embedded systems and the Internet of things. Such systems have to be adaptable and flexible in order to provide better services to its residents. Modelling such systems is an open research question....

This article proposes a theoretical and practical extension of the IoT, taking in all "things" that can be sensed by sensors, without requiring them to be fitted with a tag or a digital network interface. These physical entities, whatever they may be (legacy appliances, passive items, subsets of...