Mobile application stores: Success factors, existing approaches, and future developments

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 160-167

  Cuadrado, Félix ^a   Dueñas, Juan ^b  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTENT DELIVERY; FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; MOBILE BROADBAND; MOBILE USERS; SUCCESS FACTORS; USER HABIT;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING;

GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 84870262607     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2012.6353696     Document Type: Article

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