Das mobile Internet ist eine Technologie, die im privaten Einsatzbereich bereits eine hohe Verbreitung gefunden hat. Eine zunehmende Anzahl von Nutzern greift mit Smartphones und Tablet PCs mobil auf das Internet zu und verwendet mobile Anwendungen, so genannte Apps, zum Zugriff auf...

Das mobile Internet ist eine Technologie, die im privaten Einsatzbereich bereits eine hohe Verbreitung gefunden hat. Eine zunehmende Anzahl von Nutzern greift mit Smartphones und Tablet PCs mobil auf das Internet zu und verwendet mobile Anwendungen, so genannte Apps, zum Zugriff auf...

Die Entwicklung von Anwendungen für mobile Endgeräte ist aufwendig, weshalb Verfahrenzur Vereinfachung dieses Vorgangs betrachtet werden müssen. Dabei geht es unteranderem um die Bereitstellung von Frameworks für die Entwicklung von Anwendungen. Indiesem Zusammenhang stellt sich die Frage,...

Accessing the World Wide Web via mobile end devices is increasing steadily. Mobile access is limitedby device properties and radio networks. In the past, software developers responded to this by specialstandards for a special mobile web: WAP, HDML, WML, C-HTML and XHTML-MP. However, theWorld...

Mobility is obviously one of the main characteristics of the mobile Internet. Next toheterogeneity it is one of the root causes for challenges when mobile end devices are used.Mobility leads to specific characteristics of the usage of end devices which can becategorized as technical, social and...

In addition to mobility, heterogeneity is one of the root causes for challenges of the mobileInternet. At all levels heterogeneity can be found: For handsets, networks and software. Thisdiversity leads to negative consequences, both technological and economic, for stakeholdersof the value chain...

Studies about Mobile TV show that this way of television generally meets with user interest.Disagreement about technical standards, discrepancies between the actors in the mobile TV sectorand little user acceptance about the concrete Mobile TV offering are reasons for the failure of MobileTV in...

As using the Internet with mobile end devices like PDA or Smartphones gets more and more common,enterprises verify whether they can use this technology to gain competitive advantages. This workevaluates existing mobile applications for businesses, their technical construction and...

Meanwhile, standard mobile phones are able to run applications which can be installed additionally tothose provided by the network operators. These applications can be used for various purposes - onepossibility is to use mobile phones for guiding persons on unknown territory. Mobile phones...

Mobility, understood as the possibility to move around, is an important part of human life. Sociologistshave even called mobility a vital principle for the individual and society. Mobility needs may besatisfied in several ways: independently by motorized and non-motorized individual traffic, by...