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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825488403321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2004

ISBN

1-280-51478-7

9786610514786

1-84544-220-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (55 p.)

Collana

Info. No. 3 ; ; Vol. 6

Altri autori (Persone)

ThorngrenBertil

AnderssonPer

BohlinErik

BomanMagnus

Disciplina

004.16

Soggetti

Mobile computing

Mobile communication systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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