Ubiquitous Computing technologies will have a wide impact on our daily lives in the future. Currently, most debates about social implications of these technologies concentrate on different aspects of privacy and data security. However, the authors of this paper argue that there is more to...

The convergence between mobile communications and Internet applications has been claimed to cause the birth of a brand new era. In fact, in recent years, technological innovations, that led to the digital convergence, have made it possible to incorporate Information and Communication...

This paper addresses the issue of how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) service providers can win back disadopters of an earlier generation of technology when a new technology generation appears on the market. Integrating prior research on consumers’ defensive bias, knowledge...

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...

Despite the accelerated pace at which progress in wireless technologies occurs, it is not uncommon to observe that some Mobile Operators (MOs) do not upgrade their mobile services, while their competitors adopt the newest technological standards. I propose an explanation for this apparent...

I show that the growing trend in financial services digitalization has introduced a new dimension along which commercial banks compete. Small community banks (SCBs) are slow to implement mobile technologies and lose deposits to larger, better-digitized banks following mobile infrastructure...