Enabling Technologies for Mobile Services

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. <p><i>Enabling Technologies for Mobile Services</i> 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.</p> <p>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. </p> <p>Key features:</p> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>Explains the results of major collaborative (industry-academia-SMEs) MobiLife research project</li> <li>Builds on previous and parallel interaction with the Wireless World Research Forum</li> <li>Explores pioneering legal/regulatory analysis of the challenges related to new, advanced application/service solutions including personalisation and DRM</li> <li>Presents qualitative evaluations and field studies of more than 250 end-users in Italy and Finland</li> <li>Additional material available on companion website</li> </ul>