Seamless mobility / Guest editors Bertil Thorngren, Per Andersson, Erik Bohlin and Magnus Boman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thorngren, Bertil.

Andersson, Per.

Bohlin, Erik.

Boman, Magnus.

Series:

Info. No. 3 ; v. 6.

Info. No. 3 ; Vol. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mobile computing.

Mobile communication systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (55 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The five papers in this special issue have been selected from presentations held at the 2003 Mobility Roundtable, held at Stockholm. Looks at the inevitable merge of the tele-centric and data-centric world and mobile Internet and how they have enabled mobile access in both professional and personal lifestyles. Evaluates demand, supply and culture. Opines that with future developments hard to predict new actors from other sectors, such as hotels and restaurants could, by merging their interests, provide a seamless roaming service. Conclusions drawn are that conceptions of mobility in all lifest

Contents:

Contents; Abstracts & keywords; Seamless mobility: more than it seems; Towards seamless mobility with personal servers; Practising mobile professional work: tales of locational, operational, and interactional mobility; Ubiquitous visions and opaque realities: professionals talking about mobile technologies; Mobile communications: Europe, Japan and South Korea in a comparative perspective; Key technological trajectories and the expansion of mobile Internet applications; Rearview

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-51478-7

9786610514786

1-84544-220-2

OCLC:

70726387