"This book investigates the technology of ubiquitous computing, emerging applications and services, and social issues vital for the successful deployment of a ubiquitous computing application. Providing high quality, authoritative content on such topics as device design, wireless communication,...

Advances in mobile computing, wireless communications, mobile positioning, and sensor technologies have given rise to a new class of context-aware mobile and ubiquitous applications. Context-Aware Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing for Enhanced Usability: Adaptive Technologies and Applications...

1. Mobile Marketing Management -- 2. Reviewing Mobile Marketing Research to Date -- 3. Framework for Mobile Marketing -- 4. Factors Affecting Mobile Advertising -- 5. Advertising Challenges in Ubiquitous Media Environments -- 6. Segmentation Challenges Posed by Transnationals in Mobile Marketing...

Section 1. Basic Concepts -- 1. Mobile Computing: Technology Challenges, Constraints, and Standards -- 2. Business Model Typology for Mobile Commerce -- 3. Security and Trust in Mobile Multimedia -- 4. Data Dissemination in Mobile Environments -- 5. A Taxonomy of Database Operations on Mobile...

The recent rapid advances in wireless technologies have created a demand for high quality multimedia applications and services. These advanced multimedia applications give rise to a new set of challenges in providing Quality of Service (QoS) when delivering these services over wireless networks....

The dramatic growth of the wireless communication industry has resulted in searches for new technologies to provide broader bandwidth per user channel, better quality, and new value-added services. Employing smart antennas presents an elegant and relatively economical way to improve the...

"This book includes the challenges and practical experience of the design of M-Learning environments, covering current developments in M-learning experiences in both academia and industry"--Provided by publisher.

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 --

A Concept for the Evaluation of E-Commerce-Ability / Ulrike Baumol, Thomas Stiffel, Robert Winter -- M-Commerce / Nenad Jukic, Abhishek Sharma, Boris Jukic, Manoj Parameswaran -- E-Commerce Adoption in Small Firms / Pak Yuen P. Chan, annette M. Mills -- Conceptualizing the SMEs' Assimilation of...