In the realm of mobile security, where OS-based protections have proven insufficient against robust attackers, Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) have emerged as a hardware-based security technology. Despite the industry’s persistence in advancing ...

The outbreak of COVID-19 forced schools to swiftly transition from in-person classes to online or remote offerings, making educators and learners alike rely on online videoconferencing platforms. Platforms like Zoom offer audio-visual channels of ...

The steady reports of privacy invasions online paints a picture of the Internet growing into a more dangerous place. This is supported by reports of the potential scale for online harms facilitated by the mass deployment of online technology and by the ...

In this paper, we will discuss different brands of iPhone of different market share, the relationships between iPhone's Big Data, market share [8] and their usage. We will have a look at their market share statistics, difference and comparison in graphs ...

The learnability of an API suffers when the official documentation of the API is incomplete. Developers discuss usage scenarios of APIs in the online developer forums. As such, by automatically mining such crowd-sourced documentation of APIs, we can ...

This article discusses the use of simulators in naval ship management training. Simulators make it possible to achieve required information and skill level faster than traditional classroom teaching methods. The benefits of simulators are cost-...

Governments are considered as one of the major producers of data. Opening up and publishing this Big Government Data in national portals have significant impact on fostering innovation, improving transparency, public accountability and collaboration. ...

Scholars have warned that because mobile Internet access offers lower levels of functionality and content availability, operates on less open and flexible platforms and contributes to diminished levels of user engagement, content creation and ...

The first step of the Developing a Framework for Measuring Reuse of Digital Objects project involved a survey identifying how cultural heritage organizations currently assess digital library reuse, barriers to assessing reuse, and community priorities ...

To develop insights and further extend knowledge on the level of e-Government awareness in South Africa, and how the South African citizenry make use of e-Government services to interact with their government, an evaluation of the e-Government awareness ...

In this paper we present the first population-level, city-scale analysis of application usage on smartphones. Using deep packet inspection at the network operator level, we obtained a geo-tagged dataset with more than 6 million unique devices that ...

We seek to quantify smartwatch use, and establish differences and similarities to smartphone use. Our analysis considers use traces from 307 users that include over 2.8 million notifications and 800,000 screen usage events, and we compare our findings ...

In recent years, many cities around the globe implemented Municipal Wireless/Wi-Fi Networks (MWNs) as part of their strategies towards becoming "smart" cities. While initial initiatives had very ambitious goals and often struggled implementing them, ...

The proliferation of free trials for high-tech services calls for a careful study of their effectiveness, and the drivers thereof. On one hand, free trials can generate new paying subscribers by allowing consumers to become acquainted with the service ...

In the context of an industry-academia collaboration in the scope of test process improvement, there was a need to assess the usage, usefulness and quality of defect reports. The objective was to assess the extent to which each field of a defect report (...

In this investigation, a multifaceted model of Internet appropriation that encompasses four types of access—motivational, material, skills, and usage—is tested with a representative sample of the Dutch population. The analysis indicates that while the ...

This study set out to investigate the effects of psychological mechanisms on using mobile phones for work-related communication, and subsequently to prove that people at the bottom of the pyramid in Asia who use their phones strategically reap positive ...

Twitter is often referred to as a backchannel for conferences. While the main conference takes place in a physical setting, attendees and virtual attendees socialize, introduce new ideas or broadcast information by microblogging on Twitter. In this ...

The increasing complexity of knowledge work and the concomitant use of teams to organize and accomplish such work are leading organizations to invest heavily in collaboration technologies. However, prior research suggests that the productivity gains ...

Information systems use represents one of the core concepts defining the discipline. In this article, we develop a rich conceptualization of IS use patterns as individuals' emotions, cognition, and behaviors while employing an information technology to ...