Technology, which cannot be considered as a separate existence from society, has become one of the basic research subjects of social sciences. Changes in the new communication technologies have an impact on every area of individual life causing radical changes. Along with globalization, this...

Malta has long been a tourist destination with visitors totaling 2.6 million in 2018. A 2013 survey by the Malta Tourism Authority found that 22% of tourists opted for a rental car during their stay, whereas 76% chose public transport to meet their travel needs. In recent years, the...

With an experimental design the impacts of information about privacy dangers and of the personal information that has to be shared are tested for a participation application for mobile devices. Our results confirm the privacy paradox for the context of citizen participation, meaning that people...

Social media platforms are becoming an indispensable resource for journalists. Their use involves both direct interaction with the platforms themselves and, increasingly, the use of specialist third-party apps to find, filter, and follow content and contributors. This article explores some of...

Trust and trust management represent the very foundations of Computer and Network Security Protocols enabling all cyber activities. The recent spate of national and global high-impact cyber security compromises threats, vulnerabilities and exposures leads to fundamental questioning of trust as...

Technology revolution is enhanced in everywhere of the world. It is more power based and essential aspects in each and every sector of an industry. Technologies are more adoptable and favorable to the customers. Technologies in the banking sectors are developed at the peak. Over the years, banks...

Mobile devices are becoming the universal interface to online services and cloud computing applications. Since mobile phones have limited computing power and battery life, there is a potential to migrate computation intensive application components to external computing resources. The Cloud is...

No more worrying about forgetting to charge the battery. It is the motivation of this paper to converse the first step toward realizing this goal. A system will be offered using existing antenna and RFID technology to charge a mobile phone battery without using wires. In this first step, it will...

In this study, the authors develop a structural model that combines a macro diffusion model with a micro choice model to control for the effect of social influence on the mobile app choices of customers over app stores. Social influence refers to the density of adopters within the proximity of...

Since Apple and Google launched their mobile app stores in 2008, the market for mobile apps has experienced rapid growth. Given the existence of multiple app platforms, fundamental questions in the app industry are how app developers choose which app platform to enter and which market designs...