M-stock: Efficient stock monitoring for mobile users

The emergence of sophisticated and powerful mobile devices with impressive computing capabilities and storage capacity paves the way for an era of advanced mobile-based applications. Monitoring of time-critical data, process control, and security are possible candidate applications. In this work we propose a stock monitoring system that utilizes mobile phones. The system was designed to provide an alternative to costly GPRS connections for stock market traders. The system grants real-time monitoring of stock information through a user-friendly and easy to use GUI with plenty of useful features. The system was implemented by combining various Java technologies, specifically J2ME and J2EE. It was tested using the Dubai Financial Market with favorable results. & 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd. on behalf of The Franklin Institute.