Enabling Technologies for Mobile Services (eBook)

The expected future evolution of mobile and wireless communication
technologies will enable a whole new generation of
mass-market-scale ubiquitous services and applications. The
challenge now is to research and develop applications and services
addressing the true needs of the end-users, and to provide engaging
and sustaining added value to them.

Enabling Technologies for Mobile Services takes a
comprehensive approach on these challenges and provides practical
guidelines on building new, innovative applications and services.
It shares knowledge gained from a collaborative research project
where the methods and technologies were applied and utilised.

This book is ideal for professionals working with enabling
technologies and service architecture in companies. It will also be
of interest to academics and students studying
applications/services, enabling technologies and service
architectures at the universities and to anyone interested in the
general issues surrounding mobile technology.

Key features:

* Covers key topics in the B3G area including applications and
services from the users, key enabling technologies, regulatory and
business models, end-user evaluations and applications/services
creation points of view

* Explains the results of major collaborative
(industry-academia-SMEs) MobiLife research project

* Builds on previous and parallel interaction with the Wireless
World Research Forum

* Explores pioneering legal/regulatory analysis of the challenges
related to new, advanced application/service solutions including
personalisation and DRM

* Presents qualitative evaluations and field studies of more than
250 end-users in Italy and Finland

* Additional material available on companion website