Smart-phones are today used to perform a huge amount of online activities. They are used as interfaces to access the cloud, as storage resource, as social network tools, agenda, digital wallet, digital identity repository etc. In other words smart-phone are today the citizen's digital companion,...

While most user studies on mobile telecommunications focus on adoption of services, preferences in the use of data networks has hardly been studied. In this paper, we analyse data collected directly on smartphones to study preferences of users between cellular and WiFi networks. Moreover, we...

This paper combines quantitative and qualitative methods to take a first look at the app economy and mobile services landscape in the City and Region of Brussels, capital of Belgium and Europe. By scraping the iTunes App Store and Google Play market places we get a view on platform distribution,...

We study the role of privacy in the market for mobile applications. For such programs used with smartphones and tablet PCs a very important market has emerged. Yet, neither the role of privacy on that market is well understood, nor do we have empirical evidence regarding its role therein. We...

Enterprise application software vendors seek to re-produce the success story of consumer mobile apps in their domain. Like private users, business users ask for flexible, consumer-grade applications for their daily work. However, enterprise software applications do not meet those expectations...

Increasing development in information communication technology led to huge attention over the mobile phones having extra features, normally referred as smartphones. Recently, the operating system and more importantly what distinguishes smartphones from ordinary phones, applications (Apps) had...