Different mobile operating system or shopping app versions enable different functionality and information flow, thus creating various mobile shopping environments. In general, up-to-date versions provide better information flows and richer functionality. However, mobile operating systems and...

COVID-19 has revealed the critical role data is playing and will increasingly play in the exercise of social control. This article investigates the data life cycle of Contact Tracing Apps—namely, the collection, collation and analysis of data—as a tool of epidemiological surveillance in...

The act of people buying and downloading software (or purchasing it on CD) is very general nowadays. And with these activities, a software license agreement is being concluded. But, as new technologies emerge, new business models appear, and they need a different legal background and a different...

Recent Very Large Scale Events (VLSEs) such as Superstorm Sandy in 2012 and Hurricane Maria in 2017, which plunged millions of people into darkness, have led to discussions and an awareness of the importance of grid resilience. Historically such conversations have been about the reliability of...

When we think about running enterprise applications on-premises, enterprises do two things for their servers, databases, and storage. Enterprises provision for peaks and put a lot of infrastructures to handle peak demand, although a lot of this capacity is not used at normal times. The other...

Purpose: Worldwide In-app Purchase (IAP) revenues reached almost US$37 billion in 2017 and doubled that in 2020. Although the revenue from IAPs exceeds those from paid apps, only 5% of total app users make any IAPs. This paper investigates why some users will not make IAPs and develop a novel...