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Since Ministry of Transportation and Communication of the DGT put ¡§liberalization of telecommunications¡¨ into practice in 1997, the development of the mobile phone industry has been 7 years. The sales volume is affected by brand, function, specification, and service of system proprietor. Moreover, the available distribution channel and the execellent after-sales service have played an important role in it. In other words, according to the replacement of mobile phone, the influence of distribution channel is more important than before. Because the real channel is the biggest part of the mobile phone industry, this study wants to research demographic and lifestyle of consumers in this field. This study adopted the research of questionnaire as study method. The target of this study is consumers who have purchased mobile phone in Kaohsiung area, and the field of this study was concentrated on demographic and lifestyle of consumer behavior. The valid questionnaire volum is 551. This study used SPPS software to access factor analysis and cluster analysis to get the lifestyle data of consumers, and then it used Chi-square test to examine the influence between the demographic and lifestyle of consumers and consumer behavior. If the examination is remarkable, it would go a step further to show the distribution of sample frequencies. By this way, we would know where the difference is.According to this study result, it shows that different gender, years, occupation, and disposable income would have the remarkable difference with consumer behavior. It meant that the consumer characteristics had influenced the purchasing behavior of mobile phone. Therefore, the distribution channel should consinder more about consumer characterstics to decide its strategy. Moreover, different lifestyle would have an impact on purchasing price and choice of purchasing place. It meant that distribution channel could aim the distinguishing feature of different group to choose unique product and business modle. It would help to satisfy the need of different group and to create distinctive position of market.

Communication plays a very important role in an organization. An exchange of information and knowledge maintains a normal operation of an organization. In addition, the establishment of co-understanding is necissary for the organization members to achieve the common goals of the organization. Communication happens when a message sender transmits information to a message receiver through the ¡§communication media.¡¨ There are two forms of communication; one is verbal and another is non-verbal or called wordless. Verbal communication includes face-to-face conversation, telephone contact and written correspondence. As to non-verbal communication, it includes physical gesture, facial expression, and the action of hand or eye that transmits messages. According to the researches, different communication media have different information capacities. To achieve the best performance, we should choose the communication media with the most match capacities and message ambiguous. Highly rich media is applied to highly complicated task, while less rich media is applied to simple and routine task. Therefore, it is important to study to the effectiveness of communication. Employees of Retail business heavily uses mobile phone as the communication media. According to the media richness theory and the social influence model, this researcy performs a survey study. The research results reveal that there is no significant differences over the ambiguous of task, media richness, usefulness, media symbolic meanings and situational factors among the department stores and supermarket of different channels. Therefore, mobile phone application is regarded as a good communication tool in the retail business. It is suggested that an organization should consider replacing or matching the existing communication tool to achieve the most effective communication.

M. Tech. Information Networks / The study was undertaken to better understand the vast number of limitations in the use of mobile devices such as screen size, navigation, colour and network limitations. The aim of this study is to identify usability problems within the user interface design of mobile device instant messaging applications. The usability of three mobile instant messaging applications (MXit, Nimbuzz and Whatsapp) will be evaluated on three different high end touch screen smart phones (Apple iPhone 4, BlackBerry Torch 9800 and Nokia N8)

South Africans have had a passionate affair with cellular telephony since its launch in June 1994. But, by far the networks contract-less prepaid service has been an outstanding success, attracting hundreds of thousands of users who could not have otherwise been part of the subscriber base. The prepaid service has made cellular telephony accessible to all, especially the youth/student market. The author investigated the reasons into why students at Cape Technikon chose the prepaid service over the contract service and whether student allowance/ income affected the choice exercised. The prepaid system was voted as being most popular. Income levels had a direct bearing on the choice that students made but other factors such as perception, culture and socio-economic play a role in shaping the choices made. The most important factor to students was that no monthly bills were involved and total control over spending could be exercised. Recommendations to the cellular operators included, projecting a brand personality that attracted the youth and embracing the challenge of building long- term relationships with these customers. / Thesis (M.B.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2003.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio University, August, 2006. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.(Electrical Engineering)--University of Pretoria, 2004. / Summaries in Afrikaans and English. Includes bibliographical references.

Magister Artium (Child and Family Studies) - MA(CFS) / Today the mobile phone plays a vital role in social life across the globe. For many teenagers and young adults in particular, this device forms an integral part of their daily communication, with text messaging being one of their preferred modes of social interaction. Researchers across the globe have studied various facets of this phenomenon but he main focus has been on this mode of communication in peer relationships. From a family systems perspective, the current qualitative study intended to explore how parents experience their teenagers’ text messaging in terms of communication and relationships with their teenagers, and how parents regulate this pervasive practice. To this end, data were collected by means of one-on-one interviews among eleven parents (eight mothers and three fathers) in Cape Town, South Africa, using a semi-structured interview schedule. With the participants’ permission, the sessions were tape-recorded; data were transcribed, content analysed, and patterns and themes identified according to Creswell’s (2009) steps. Participants expressed a range of experiences, from positive to negative, not only of text messaging, but of their teenagers’ use of mobile phones in general. Among the positives, it was the sense of security the devices gave parents, and the possibility of communicating easily, quickly and at affordable cost and at the same time monitoring their children at a distance. The negatives were mainly related to the misuse/and overuse of the mobile phones. The study suggests that parents were aware of some of the dangers associated with mobile phones, such as bullying, sexting, texting while driving, overuse at the expense of family, studying and sleeping times, and home chores. It also reveals that girls were more at risk, especially when it came to mobile bullying and sexting. Some parents came up with suggestions on dealing with mobile phones and text messaging-related problems. Furthermore, the study is indicative of a predominantly authoritative parenting style whereby parents successfully limited these dangers by regulating the use of their teenagers’ mobile phones. However, for some, finding the balance, especially between parental control and teenagers’ privacy, proved to be a challenge. Moreover, while expressing the need for mobile internet, especially for teenagers’ school work, the majority of participants showed concern about having it under control. The study concludes that text messaging can be used to enhance communication and relationships between parents and their teenagers. It recommends educating the latter about the dangers of mobile phones and the former to monitor their use, while at the same time negotiating teenagers’ freedom.

Orientador: Francisco Elinaldo Teixeira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T01:00:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Freitas_KeniaCardosoVilacade_M.pdf: 6009777 bytes, checksum: d242ab3c2946d0676852f63c25904e5e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Essa dissertação propôs-se a fazer uma análise do cinema contemporâneo a partir do universo dos filmes feitos com telefone celular, especificamente dos documentários. Para começar, procuramos entender em que contexto da história do cinema esses filmes se situam. Em seguida, mergulhamos nas características mais específicas do dispositivo desses filmes (conectividade, portabilidade e mobilidade), tendo como objeto de análise os filmes participantes do festival Pocket Films. Por fim, traçamos a relação dos filmes feitos com celular com a construção de processos de subjetividade no cinema / Abstract: This paper intends to do an analysis of contemporary cinema throughout the universe of the movies made using cellular phone cameras, specifically of the documentary. At first, we seek to understand the context at the history of cinema in which these movies take place. In the next moment, we dive into the characteristics which are specific to the device of these movies (connectivity, portability and mobility, having as object of analysis the movies that participated in the Pocket Films Festival. At last, we trace the relation between the movies made using cellular camera and the construction of the processes of subjectivity in cinema / Mestrado / Multimeios / Mestre em Multimeios

Sensitive information is increasingly moving online and as data moves further from the control of its owner, there are increased opportunities for it to fall into malicious hands. The Web is comprised of three untrusted components where there is a risk of information compromise: networks, service providers, and clients. This thesis presents Trusted Mobile Overlays: a system that leverages trusted mobile devices to protect users from these untrusted components of the Web, while minimizing deployment difficulties. It presents a high-level design of the system as well as a prototype that implements the design.