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The high cost of attracting new customers on the Internet and the relative difficulty in retaining them make customers’ loyalty an essential asset for many banks. Since online transactions involve many uncertainties for the customer and most of the Internet banking offers the same product…

This paper describes the development of a computer-aided learning package, NihonGo that teaches Japanese Language in an easy way. It comprises eight main modules — Lessons, Exercises, Quizzes, Writing, Games, Dictionary, Karaoke and Maintenance. It is a bilingual system that allows the users a choice…

One of the primary characteristics of policing of the next century will be the proliferation of technology as an important component of law enforcement. The successful law enforcer or policeman of the future will be marked by an ability to incorporate and directly apply a…

In this paper we introduce the concept of COPnets. A COPnet refers to a network of security systems (agents) that cooperate to form a collaborative defence system. COPnets give answer to the growing complexity and sophistication of attacks, like DDOS and other botnets. In a…

The growth and development of Africa and indeed Nigeria’s economy depends largely on foreign direct investment (FDI), which has been described as the major carrier for transfer of new scientific knowledge and related technological innovations. The need to step up Nigeria’s industrialization process and growth,…

In recent years, we have seen an explosion of mobile phone use, with an estimated 3.3 billion mobile phone subscribers worldwide.  Among this number a significant portion of users are children.  This is a group that has embraced mobile phone technology more than any other.…

The rapid transformation of the modern economies reveals the significance of knowledge, innovation and technology for economic growth. In Europe, the Lisbon Strategy set the very ambitious goal to “become the more competitive knowledge economy in the world by 2010” Besides public policies, the development…

Traffic congestion is an increasing problem in urban environments. As cities develop, more traffic is featuring on the roads.  However, adequate and timely measures are required in terms of infrastructure development to facilitate smooth flow of traffic.  In this research we have designed and implemented…

Advertising plays a major role in modern life. It shapes the attitudes of the society and the individual and inevitably influences customer behaviour. The customer has to contend with a huge amount of information and be able to make a choice, draw conclusions and make…

Multimedia Broadcasting System (MBS) is a distributed media software system that provides reliable broadcasting services using GRUM over the Internet. The proposed Multimedia Broadcasting System ensures that all media files broadcasted by the sender will be received by the receivers through copper-based public switching network…