...and Electric Smart Meter Course CR Start End Instructor San Diego Gas and Electric Smart Meter December 2010, digital smart meters will be part of California’s energy action plan (CA.GOV, 12/15/10), that will remove our existing electric and natural gas meters with new meters. The state of California has asked all utilities companies like San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E), to change all meters. What a smart meter is; how will it benefit my community. Also, what how will it affect my family financially. What is a Smart Meter Smart meters are digital devices that gather energy-use information; unlike traditional meters; smart meters broadcast, and collect data. After the data is collected wirelessly it is transmitted to San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E), where the data is linked to the customers meter number and service address that are SDG&E unique identifiers. SDG&E gathers the information makes sure it is authenticate several times and check for accuracy before using it for billing. They way a smart meter work is similar to cell phone technology. Just like cell phones companies using phone numbers as the unique identifiers to link every call that connects to cell towers and rout each call to the right place. SDG&E will record all electric energy use at homes every hour and at every business, it will be every 15 minutes. Information about your natural gas usage will be available every day. How the Community Benefits The new smart meters will benefit...
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...Introduction A smart phone is a highly developed cell phone which has more applications than the normal mobile phone. It is a personal device that connects to cellular data so as to provide online services. Smart phones have different capabilities in comparison to a normal cell phone. It can check e-mails, make phone calls, and browse the web in its basic form. Examples of smart phones’ operating systems today include, Android (Google), iPhone (Apple), Windows mobile (MS), Blackberry OS (RIM), and S60 (Symbian). These operating systems allow their customers to use different applications for their needs. Smartphone users have an access to the internet. This means that extremely many things can be done by a small device that is portable and one can carry it around everywhere. The users have internet on their pockets (Reed, 2010). The Smartphone is more than a phone and more than a computer. In America, today, 42% of phone users have Smart phones. Smartphone became a revolutionary innovation when Apple released its first generation of Iphone (Reed, 2010). This became a benchmark for Smartphone makers to adhere to in order to gain the market share in the Smartphone market. Today each company is trying to come up with the best smart phones so as to be able to compete with others. IPhone reinvented a Smartphone in 2007. Nowadays, most Smart phones support a number of applications that users can download. For example, Apple’s App Store on iTunes enables program users and developers...
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...aimed at any smartphone user. With the constant changes in demands for new and improved smart devices Samsung has created a new device to try and meet these demands with a bigger screen, more memory, and better graphics. By improving these items they are trying to make them more appealing to their target market by helping improve their devices to make their use of smartphones more desirable. Young adults and youth cover most of their target market to improve gaming and social media to keep in touch and with more memory they can save more applications and pictures to their phone. There are many ways that Samsung is attempting to meet target needs by meeting consumer’s wants and needs in a smart device. There is always something new coming out and there are changing demands daily. With IPhone out new phones Samsung is trying to appeal to Apple consumers with creating a similar device but with the Samsung operating system to move more customers to their side. The cell phone industry is one of the largest growing industries in the world. It is very rare to see a person without a cellphone and most cellphones are smart phones so therefore Samsung has to come up with new and improved devices to help reach their target market and fulfill their target needs. Samsung’s biggest competitor would be Apple with the new IPhone six that just came out Samsung had to compete to bring out a different phone to appeal to smartphone users. Their hope is to do that the Samsung Galaxy Alpha. There...
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...If you have any questions you can contact me at 409344-0867 or at nuthaky.phani@gmail.com Respectfully yours, Phani Nuthaky TABLE OF CONTENTS Part Page I. INTRODUCING THE REPORT 1 A. What is a smart phone? 1 B. Key smart phone features 1 C. What is a smart phone operating system? 2 II. WHY IS ANDROID THE TOP SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEM? 3 A. What users love in Android? 3 B. Some of the drawbacks of Android 4 III. iOS APPLE’S SMARTPHONE OPERATING SYSTEM 5 A. Features of iOS 5 B. Setbacks of iOS 6 IV. WINDOWS PHONE OPERATING SYSTEM 6 A. Top features of Windows Phone 7 B. Trade offs of Windows Phone 8 IV. SUMMING UP THE SMARTPHONE OS COMPARISON 9 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Graphic Page TABLE 1 Top Smartphone Platforms 11 TO IDENTIFY THE TOP THREE OPERATING SYSTEMS FOR SMARTPHONES AND EXPLAIN THEIR FEATURES I. INTRODUCTION A. What is a smart phone? A smartphone (or smart phone) is a mobile phone with more advanced computing capability and connectivity than basic feature phones. Smartphones typically include the features of a phone with those of another popular consumer device, such as a personal digital assistant, a media player, a digital camera, and/or a GPS navigation unit. Later smartphones include all of those plus the features of a touchscreen computer, including web browsing,...
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...Why Not Now Smart Device & Mobile App Store Boise’s Best Cell Phone Store-Final Draft Alicia Young Keller Graduate School of Management Marketing Management-Section 61681 December 15, 2013 Table of Contents 1.0 Executive Summary………………………………………………………………………....3 2.0 Situational Analysis Overview……………………………………………………………...3 2.1 Market Summary……………………………………………………………………………5 2.2 SWOT Analysis……………………………………………………………………………...6 2.3 Competition………………………………………………………………………………….7 2.4 Product Service Offering……………………………………………………………………8 2.5 Keys to Success………………………………………………………………………………9 2.6 Critical Issues……………………………………………………………………………….10 3.0 Marketing Strategy Overview……………………………………………………………..10 3.1 Mission………………………………………………………………………………………13 3.2 Marketing Objectives………………………………………………………………………13 3.3 Financial Objectives………………………………………………………………………..15 3.4 Target Markets……………………………………………………………………………..17 3.5 Positioning…………………………………………………………………………………..18 3.6 Pricing Strategies…………………………………………………………………………...19 3.7 Market Attack Strategy……………………………………………………………………22 3.8 Marketing Research………………………………………………………………………..24 4.0 Controls……………………………………………………………………………………..27 4.1 Progress Milestones………………………………………………………………………...27 4.2 Market Organization………………………………………………………………………28 4.3 Contingency Planning……………………………………………………………………...28 5.0 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………..29 References………………………………………………………………………………………30 1.0 Executive...
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...ability to stream video or watch downloaded movies, texting, calling, almost anything imaginable can be accomplished with these newer devices but what they cannot do is improve a drivers skills or driving habits, in fact in most cases these devices impair one’s ability to drive safely. Smartphone/cell phone use needs to be banned from use in automobiles except to use for hands free communication only. How can this problem be addressed so that the drivers of this Nation can feel safe without wondering what the driver next to them is doing on their cell phone. A Federal proposal that would ensure a nationwide ban on cell phone use while driving would help accomplish this. The proposal would allow officers to stop any driver that is using a cell phone as a primary offense. This means that if you have a cell phone in your hands for any reason you can be stopped for it. Why is such a harsh course of action required, as stated these unnecessary distractions can lead to serious injury or loss of life and that is a cost too great to ignore. This proposal would carry stiff punishments as well, since it has been shown that there is little difference between driving intoxicated or texting/cell phone use then the punishment should be similar. Society expects...
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...with Mobile Phone Providers ECO/365 Competitive Strategies with Mobile Phone Providers The following report details cellphone analysis that will deal with cellphone services. In order for the different existing cellphone providers such as AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Metro PCS to survive in the business market, they need to implement competitive strategies. It will establish stability and profitability in the long term. The key personnel and maintain for each service is the customer's loyalty. Mobile phone providers can have a challenge entering in today’s market. For a new company to be successful they would need to find a way to give the customers phones and service cheaper than the other companies or have a new innovative phone available. T-Mobile does not require their customers to have a contract making the upgrade at the contract renewal time obsolete. The purchase of the initial phone when signing up with T-Mobile is where they make most of their money. The monthly plans with T-Mobile are not exorbitantly priced giving them an edge on the other phone companies. T-Mobile was also the first to give customers access to international services for free. A new smaller provider can be merged with one of the larger companies easily. It would be a horizontal merger between these companies because they provide the same services. In 2004 AT&T merged with Cingular Wireless. This merger gave Cingular customers a wider network to use their cell phones in over 100...
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...Smartphone vs. Academic Performance How smart is it to use a “Smartphone” in academic courses? You might think of your professor before answering this question. Many teachers have zero-tolerance policy when it comes to cell phone use during class, while others might see it as a “learning tool” to boost students’ excitement in education. In the end, they are used, both overtly and covertly in classroom settings, despite the rules of not doing so. It is undeniable that cell phones are an integral part of college life and culture. However, cell phone use affects negatively academic performance because it distracts students from academic activities and it increases multitasking and task switching. First of all, students’ cell phone use is a distraction in academic courses. These devices enable students to access any electronic media such as text messages, videos, social media and the Internet at any time. As young generations are used to be entertained, this can potentially decrease the attention in the classroom and disrupt others while studying. For example, a ringing cell phone in class can interrupt the professor from giving instructions for a final test, and deter the entire class from listening. Accordingly, it encourages multitasking and task switching, which are negatively related to academic performance. Using the example above, the student will have to “redirect” his attention to turn down the volume and shift his full attention from the professor. This is called task...
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...Daniel Diaz 6/22/15 Professor Olivier Unit 1 Assignment 1 Voice vs. Data • Cell phones use data networks in order to function in its full potential. Without any network data, you wouldn’t be able to browse the web, view email, applications, etc… Data networks is what makes a smart phone possible. • Landline phones are used by voice networks because it needs to be directly plugged in, in order to function. The voice network for landline phones will always have good signal since is always plugged in. This is why landline use voice networks. • SMS / Text Messages is used with network data. To send out a SMS Text Message you’ll need network coverage. Depending on what type of phone sometimes you don’t need data to send out a text but you do need signal to do so. • Fax Machines uses the voice network in order to function. With voice network you can send out a fax by just dialing the number to your destination. This is how voice network is used with fax machines. • Pagers are used with network data. In order to page someone you’ll need data on the network in order to function. This is why pagers use network data. • VOIP (voice over IP) phones uses voice network to function. Their directly connected to the wall in order to function. This is why VOIP uses voice network. • Skype / Facetime uses network data to function. The application wouldn’t be able to function without...
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...ITT Technical Institute Springfield, MO Unit1 Activity1 Tom McKellips NT1310 Bryan Thurlkill September 26, 2013 Voice vs. Data * Cell Phones – Since a cell phone is considered a two way radio, which transmits the digital signal via radio waves-invisible light waves-that move through the air. Cell phones can be seen as both voice and data, depending on what type of cell you have. * Landline Phones – A simple phone that has to be plug into a jack, which is mostly used in business and in a few homes now days. The signal travels through the wires to a switch than to its destination. A landline phone sends a voice signal across the network. * SMS / Text Messaging - text messaging has become a very popular mode of communication. Short Message Service (SMS) is a communication protocol allowing the interchange of short text messages between mobile devices. SMS messages are presently transmitted over signaling channels of a voice network, such as over SS7 channels. * Fax Machines – Fax machines sends data through networks which is a lot faster than using regular mail. A fax machine takes a copy of a document than sends it through a transmission line to another fax which than prints out an exact copy of that same document. This transmission is sent through a data network. * Pagers - Pagers were the most popular wireless communications devices for several reasons: They are very easy to use, their batteries last several weeks, and they are light enough...
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...Apple iPhone Not since the introduction of the original Apple Macintosh has a product introduction been met with so much anticipation. The Apple iPhone is an elegantly designed information communicator forged from steel and silicon that runs pioneering software under Apple’s OS X in a Unix Kernel. The iPhone combines smart phone capabilities with a simple to use graphical interface projected on a large ‘multi-touch’ display. Apple has managed to create a Macintosh computer with mobile phone capabilities, bundled within an Internet enabled PDA and an iPod body. B. Design The iPhone’s functionality is accessed through its 3.5-inch touch screen display and one “home” button. Using only finger commands, a user can navigate seamlessly through iPhone’s features, conjuring up a keyboard when needed. At a resolution of over 25,000 pixels per inch, its picture quality for videos and photos is astounding. An ambient light sensor automatically adjusts the iPhone’s display brightness enhancing visibility and saving power. Audio is provided by a standard headphone jack, a built-in speaker or through Bluetooth (stereo) transmission. C. Features 1. Smart Phone iPhone touch technology allows users to make calls by simply pointing to a name or number in an address book or by dialing through a touch pad keyboard. Contacts are automatically updated with other linked networked devices and voicemail is accessible through an email type list selection. IPhone’s features include:...
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...Apple iPhone Not since the introduction of the original Apple Macintosh has a product introduction been met with so much anticipation. The Apple iPhone is an elegantly designed information communicator forged from steel and silicon that runs pioneering software under Apple’s OS X in a Unix Kernel. The iPhone combines smart phone capabilities with a simple to use graphical interface projected on a large ‘multi-touch’ display. Apple has managed to create a Macintosh computer with mobile phone capabilities, bundled within an Internet enabled PDA and an iPod body. B. Design The iPhone’s functionality is accessed through its 3.5-inch touch screen display and one “home” button. Using only finger commands, a user can navigate seamlessly through iPhone’s features, conjuring up a keyboard when needed. At a resolution of over 25,000 pixels per inch, its picture quality for videos and photos is astounding. An ambient light sensor automatically adjusts the iPhone’s display brightness enhancing visibility and saving power. Audio is provided by a standard headphone jack, a built-in speaker or through Bluetooth (stereo) transmission. C. Features 1. Smart Phone iPhone touch technology allows users to make calls by simply pointing to a name or number in an address book or by dialing through a touch pad keyboard. Contacts are automatically updated with other linked networked devices and voicemail is accessible through an email type list selection. IPhone’s features include:...
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...browser, mobile phone and iPod which not only satisfy the customer needs but exceed their expectations. It’s a perfect match of information, communication, technology and entertainment which show its heartfelt connection with its customers. Target market of iPhone consists of professionals, students, corporate users, and entrepreneurs. Initially its market is small but with the passage of time decrease in prices and addition of certain features will increase its market in coming years. The success of Apple Company In Future lies on its skill to enter the Chinese mobile market. In this market due to economic, social and cultural differences Apple didn’t get the favorable outcomes. Apple is not feeling comfy with the Chinese Government. This Government is known for having absolute sovereignty over their customers as well as their business. Following is the report that throws light on market position, strength and weaknesses of Apple, when they entered Chinese market. Then at the end a plan is made that would clear Apple’s status in the market. Introduction Market’s personal computers, digital music players and mobile communication devices are designed and manufactured by Apple Inc. and it also sells assortments of related software and networking solutions. IPod has been a remarkable product of Apple; it has sold for more than 163 million units to date. As the market of digital music players has filled completely, Apple made a new smart phone that is known...
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...technological advancement that changed our lives. It allowed us to collect, store, and analyze large amounts of data with ease. In the 1990's, the Internet gave us the mechanism by which we could share massive amounts of information with one another. As we begin the 21st century, the Smartphone has quenched thirst for instantaneous connectivity. The growth in Smartphone use has been phenomenal. The CNN reports that 269.9 million Smartphones were purchased internationally in 2010 and that in 2011 a half a billion Smartphones may be purchased worldwide (Weintraub, 2010). Nielsen projects that Smartphones will become the majority of cell phones in use by the end of 2011. Morgan Stanley Research forecasts that Smartphone sales will exceed those of the PC in 2012 (Brownlow, 2011). The Smartphone has many more functions and uses than the traditional cell phone. The Smartphone allows its owners to e-mail, surf the web, play music and games, and perform a variety of other functions. Google now has $1 billion...
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... Thomas Blackard ITT Tech * * Since the 1990’s cellphone technology has been sneaking itself into our lives one-text message at a time. We have not only become dependent but addicted to our text trance inducing, video playing, face booking internet device wrapped in plastic and glass. The split second our precious phone could touch social media and the internet it was over, we were hooked and there is no turning back. The cellphone has become the single most used portable computing component of our lives and the most disposable and the most intertwined. We could start our story with vendors or marketers but I will discuss some of the more main stream ideology first, i.e. what makes a smartphone a smartphone by definition. From a technological point the discussion is fairly simple really, you take a small LCD screen, battery, cellular radio, CPU and RAM plus a really cool operating system. Voilà! A cell phone. The advanced micro-technology coupled with highly consumable content and our social interactions make the Internet larger and the world smaller. A user could be texting a colleague in Christ Church who could be doing a Facebook Check-In while texting a Twitter post exposing his or her comments or thoughts to tens of thousands of internet denizens almost simultaneously. Within seconds subscribers throughout the planet are touched or notified...
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