Inaugural lecture as Adjunct Professor at Copenhagen Business School, on the influence of mobile payment capabilities on the overall banking and telecommunications industry structure. Or: throwing alltogether the wires, wallet and credit card. After an historical introduction, and after showing...

French Abstract: Au cœur de la publicité et de l'influence, se trouvent les processus psychologiques, les moyens techniques et des outils, qui permettent de faire passer le "message". Celui-ci n'est plus unidirectionnel et les réseaux de communication modernes (Internet, mobile, réseaux...

Departing from traditional project management, this article focuses on cultural and localized differences and influences on a specific project activity, and furthermore on the specific influences on large important critical projects (also called “megaprojects”). It analyzes relevant...

The search for enablers of continued growth of SMS traffic, as well asthe take-off of the more diversified MMS message contents, open up forenterprises the potential of bulk use of mobile messaging , instead ofessentially one-by-one use. In parallel, such enterprises or valueadded services...

Het doel van dit onderzoek is het analyseren van de marktgrootte van mobiel betalen en de bijbehorende omzetbasis, alsmede de invoering van knelpunten, om inzicht te verkrijgen in de introductie en ontwikkeling van mobiele bankservices in Nederland. Het onderzoek beschrijft verscheidene aspecten...

Diffusion of mobile communication has induced great societal changes in China. Factors at global market, communications industry and end-user market levels are driving the adoption at a high rate. Firstly, China s economic emergence together with e.g. accession to WTO has led to foreign...

This paper addresses the mobile service pricing and affordability issues in China. Taking history as a mirror, it shows individual tariffs existed at the dawn of telephony. A vision of future mobile services with individual tariffs are formalized which will suit specially well the culture of...

Advanced Business Process Management (BPM) tools enable the decomposition of previously integrated and often ill-defined processes into re-usable process modules. These process modules can subsequently be distributed on the Internet over a variety of many different actors, each with their own...

The paper is devoted to the realization of wireless enabled clothing, employing recent new technologies in electronics, textile, and renewable power. This new wireless enabled clothing architecture is modular and distributed, allowing for customization in functionality and clothing designs. Are...

This paper links communications and media usage to social and household economics boundaries. It highlights that in present day society , communications and media are a necessity, but not always affordable , and that they furthermore open up for addictive behaviours which raise additional...