Authors:
Bruno Niman, Manfred Tscheligi
Information and communication technologies play an increasingly important role in many people's everyday lives. Interoperable mobile communication systems and services are becoming truly global and mass market, decreasing digital divides. New applications and services are used increasingly to perform either necessary or just time-filling, entertaining tasks. If used as intended—and usable by and accessible to all—connectivity and interoperability between communication networks, ever-smarter mobile gadgets, and evolving, always accessible services offer enormous potentials for improving the quality of life. What is a gadget? Let's consider it a device with some embedded computing capacity, essentially mobile, and which provides some value…
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