...------------------------------------------------- iCloud iCloud is a cloud storage and cloud computing service[2][3][4] from Apple Inc. launched on October 12, 2011. As of February 2016, the service had 782 million users.[5][6] The service provides its users with means to store data such as documents, photos, and music on remote servers for download toiOS, Macintosh or Windows devices, to share and send data to other users, and to manage their Apple devices if lost or stolen. The service also provides the means to wirelessly back up iOS devices directly to iCloud, instead of being reliant on manual backups to a host Mac or Windows computer using iTunes. Service users are also able to share photos, music, and games instantly by linking accounts via AirDrop wireless. It replaced Apple's MobileMe service,[4] acting as a data syncing center for email, contacts, calendars, bookmarks, notes, reminders (to-do lists), iWork documents, photos and other data. One of Apple's iCloud data centers is located in Maiden, North Carolina, US.[7] Beginning in 2011, iCloud is based on Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure (Apple iOS Security white paper published in 2014, Apple acknowledged that encrypted iOS files are stored in Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure[8]). In 2016, Apple Inks Deal to Use Google Cloud Platform for Some iCloud Services.[9][10] ------------------------------------------------- History[edit] iCloud was announced on June 6, 2011,[13] at the 2011 Apple Worldwide Developers...
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...operated by the owner of the mobile operating system, such as the Apple App Store, Google Play, Windows Phone Store, and BlackBerry App World. Usually, they are downloaded from the platform to a target device, such as an iPhone, BlackBerry, Android phone or Windows Phone, but sometimes they can be downloaded to laptops or desktops. Mobile apps were originally offered for general productivity reasons, including email, calendar, contacts, stock market and weather information. However, public demand and the availability of developer tools drove rapid expansion into other categories, such as mobile games, factory automation, GPS and location-based services, banking, order-tracking, and ticket purchases. For this assignment I will focus on two apps, Swell Radio and MyFitnessPal. I am a person who is just getting my feet wet when it comes to the tech sector. I am a beginner, and so far I seem to enjoy apps that are rather simple and productivity based. MyFitnessPal Available on: Website myfitnesspal.com Founded 2005 Founder Albert Lee, Mike Lee Product Czar Warren Wan MyFitnessPal is very useful and is a must have when I want to keep track of my calories consumed and burned on a daily basis. The app’s aim is to make good health attainable and sustainable for everyone. Used by more than 40 million people, MyFitnessPal is the leading resource for taking charge of daily health. This free mobile app started as a website in 2005, when co-founder Mike Lee and his wife...
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...online, give polls to check for student understanding, and award badges to individual students based on performance or behavior. • Skype Students and teachers are able to communicate if they are unable to meet in class. I’ve used this app several times to meet with my teachers via phone/computer. • Quizlet This is an app that helps students study for tests and quiz themselves. It is made up of custom flashcards or you can share them and use other people’s regarding the same subject. • Translators There are several useful apps that translate unknown languages into things you understand. I know that in the past I have used these apps for when I go out of the country or just to help me in some of my language courses. • Graphing Calculator Apps We all know that graphing calculators are EXPENSIVE! Well, there are free apps that offer everything that a graphing calculator can and more. This can be very helpful to students. • GroupMe This is an app that lets everyone stay in contact and communicate without hassle or having to give out your cell phone number. I’ve used this app for several class group projects and I love it. Some teachers will even use this to communicate to the class and hold open discussions. • Skyward App Skyward Mobile Access will automatically locate your district and take you instantly to your vital information such as grades, attendance, discipline, payroll, time off, and more • ClassDojo Helps teachers improve behavior in their classrooms...
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...A 12-year-old app developer TEDxManhattanBeach · 04:40 · Filmed Oct 2011 I've always had a fascination for computers and technology, and I made a few apps for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. I'd like to share a couple with you today. My first app was a unique fortune teller called Earth Fortune that would display different colors of earth depending on what your fortune was. My favorite and most successful app is Bustin Jieber, which is â (Laughter) â which is a Justin Bieber Whac-A-Mole. I created it because a lot of people at school disliked Justin Bieber a little bit, so I decided to make the app. So I went to work programming it, and I released it just before the holidays in 2010. A lot of people ask me, how did I make these? A lot of times it's because the person who asked the question wants to make an app also. A lot of kids these days like to play games, but now they want to make them, and it's difficult, because not many kids know where to go to find out how to make a program. I mean, for soccer, you could go to a soccer team. For violin, you could get lessons for a violin. But what if you want to make an app? And their parents, the kid's parents might have done some of these things when they were young, but not many parents have written apps. (Laughter) Where do you go to find out how to make an app? Well, this is how I approached it. This is what I did. First of all, I've been programming in multiple other programming languages to get the basics down, such as...
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...Mobile Apps Business Strategy Short Marketing Analysis of the Mobile Apps Market Every modern business needs its own mobile app in order to attract new customers and drive away the competitors without their own mobile apps. 36% of construction companies utilized more than 5 mobile business apps in 2014 (Business-Apps, 2015). In other words, software development becomes more profitable year by year. On the one hand, employers significantly reduced the paperwork and manual data processing with the help of the mobile apps. 23 percent of huge construction companies use ten or even more mobile business apps in 2014. Mobile apps cut costs on inspections (61%), checklists (31%) and work orders (49%). 69 percent of businesses want their apps to connect their data with Dropbox or Google Drive. Apps finally allow signature capture and image capture to happen. Cute image can attract a lot of new customers. Mobile apps help manufacturers to attract more return clients. Mobile apps can also help the small business to outrun the bigger one (Haselmayr, 2015). Mobile apps elaborate the customer loyalty since the contact between the product and the customer is better because an average customers uses his/her smartphone or tablet PC two hours a day. From this point of view, mobile apps are more effective than billboards, roadside banners, email spam, or websites. 1 General app development costs It usually takes most mobile leaders...
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...So what constitutes a badly-built app? Verizon recently started rating apps on three key criteria: battery consumption, data usage and security risks. For now it is only concentrating on the Top 50 Android apps, but the guide provides useful insight into what Verizon considers best-practice standards for the key criteria. mobiThinking acknowledges there are more key criteria to creating a quality app, in terms of usability, device compatibility, stability etc – and that’s true – but arguably, problems with battery consumption, data usage and security risks are some of the most important of all quality assurance (QA) criteria because: a) they are mostly hidden from consumers; b) they are more easily overlooked by developers; c) the consequences are far reaching. Bad apps affect the performance of the device, battery and network; inflate the phone bill; and most consumers blame the device, operator… anyone except the real culprits. If the user interface (UI) is rubbish or the app keeps crashing, there’s little doubt the app is to blame and users will happily broadcast their verdict in their app reviews. 1) Battery consumption Some mobile applications use a lot of energy, causing unnecessary drain on the (already heavily taxed) device battery. There are numerous reasons why this occurs and, where it is caused by bad, ignorant or devious development practices, it can and should be rectified. Causes of battery depletion include: • Apps that run without the user’s permission...
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...(games and apps for video games and iPhones/iPads/etc.) that creates value, neither Apple nor Nintendo lets the developers capture all potential value. Nintendo restricted developer value creation by limiting the number of licenses to be distributed and the number of NES titles that could be developed a year. Apple takes a similar approach, as developers have to go through a rigorous approval process before their app is accepted into the Apple app store. However, Apple does not limit the number of apps a developer can release a year, unlike Nintendo. Even with its rigorous approval process, Apple does not have a hard number quota of apps for each developer. In addition, Apple does not force its developers into exclusivity agreements like Nintendo does. iOS developers are free to work on other app platforms like Google Play. Thus Apple does not as heavily limit the total value created by its developers when compared to Nintendo. Another similarity is that both Apple and Nintendo charge fees to its developers in order to increase their own value captured. Nintendo does so with licensing fees, while Apple’s Software Development Toolkit charges developers a fee for its user-friendly platform to create applications for the Apple app store. Apple also captures value from its developers by retaining 30% of the revenues for each transaction in the App Store, leaving only 70% to the developers. 3. Yes, indirect network externalities exist in the market for mobile phone apps in the...
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...The enterprise app store Evolution in IT strategy WWW.WIPRO.COM Author: Prasenjit Bhadra, Principal Architect – Wipro Mobility Solutions From consumers to the work place: An App-t evolution Apple created a revolution with its app store. Consumers loved it. Naturally, other players are rushing in to meet consumer expectations. Vendors like Amazon, Google and Microsoft have begun to offer similar stores that have a self-service model. With the widespread adoption of mobility within enterprise, many consumers now want to see the same convenience and ease of use at the workplace that the online app stores offer. Can an enterprise afford to ignore the demands of its employees? Which enterprises will need their own Enterprise App Stores (EAS) and how will these stores operate? where it is used with a well-defined distribution protocol. Additionally, Today’s enterprise users, volunteered in driving enterprise-wide environment. If mobile apps and processes change one day, they mobility initiatives, have begun to demand simplicity of app portfolio should be able to roll out the change across the enterprise the very management. To support this demand mobile EAS is the solution. An next day. In many instances, if they fail, the impact could be from loss EAS is a customized in-house platform or infrastructure that lets users of revenues to attracting compliance and legal censure. Mobility SLAs securely download apps and updates on their...
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...A mobile banking app purpose is to give consumers the convenience to control their money on the go. You are able to do more banking on the go and not have to worry about making time to go to the actual bank. When you register and log in you can opt to use a PIN at the first login instead of putting the full password in. You can even do appointment setting and either have live appointment or call-backs. It gives consumers more ways to access accounts, provides good security, offers no fees and has easy access. You are able to transfer money from one account to another account without having to go to the bank or be on a computer. It allows you to keep track of all transactions and monitor availability of deposited funds. You are also able to pay bills. One can simply set up text alerts which also allows you to see what you have in your account or when your account is getting low. Another alert is for debit and/or credit card purchases that exceed a set amount. Some offer virtual wallet, so you can see how and where your money is being spent and also offers a savings engine that allows you to set aside money. They also added a feature to where you can take a picture of a check and deposit it that way. The only thing the app cannot do is get cash out but it will help you locate the nearest ATM. With self-service, your able to do a change of address, I lost my card, and what is the routing number. They offer photo bill pay, which is starting to gain momentum with people. You are...
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...| Office 365 vs. Google Apps | | Nowadays, traditional official environment is not enough for people doing works. People need more flexible time and sites in order to have communication with their colleagues instead of just sitting in the office. With the Informational Technology boost, Microsoft and Google provide their products that change our thinking about working in the corporation, such as new types of handing up work report, updating meeting information and communication with co-workers. Microsoft Office 365, introduced on 2010, is a kind of office software based on cloud and desktop application. It provides anywhere access to emails and calendars, Office Web Apps, instant messaging, conferencing, and file sharing. Its products include Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Lync Online, Office Professional Plus and Office Web Apps. Google Apps, developed in 2006, is a service from Google providing independently customizable versions of several Google products. It has six years history when started by creating Gmail in 2006. Through six years developing, Google Apps has quite strong features by following products: Gmail, Google Apps Sync, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, Google Drive, Google Groups, Google Tasks, Google Voice, and Google+. * Feature Review: Since most of the features are similar in Office 365 and Google Apps, there are still some differences which could affect users experiencing those two...
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...Facts: A father has said he may need to sell his car and two motorbikes after his daughter ran up a £4,000 bill playing 'free' games on his iPad. Lee Neale, 43, had his bank account frozen when Lily, 8, bought in-app extras while playing on the tablet using the password she had seen him entering when downloading items. Now he can't get a refund from Apple. Issue: 1. Whether or not there was a valid contract between Apple and this father? 2. Whether or not the transaction contract was valid? 3. Whether or not Apple has a right to refuse the refund? Law: Article 9 Capacity; Contract through Agent In entering into a contract, the parties shall have the appropriate capacities for civil rights and civil acts. Article 16 Effectiveness of Offer, Offer through Electronic Message An offer becomes effective when it reaches the offeree. When a contract is concluded by the exchange of electronic messages, if the recipient of an electronic message has designated a specific system to receive it, the time when the electronic message enters into such specific system is deemed its time of arrival; if no specific system has been designated, the time when the electronic message first enters into any of the recipient's systems is deemed its time of arrival. Article 51 Unauthorized Disposal of Property through Contract Where a piece of property belonging to another person was disposed of by a person without the power to do so, such contract is nevertheless valid once...
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...Comparing Office 365 to Google Apps Office 365 and Google Apps are both well known for their office productivity software in the cloud. When comparing the two, you must first realize that they are surprisingly similar to one and other. Hardenburgh (2016), "The applications that both Google Apps and Office 365 are most known for are their productivity suite apps that include a word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet software”. Office 365 and Google Apps also provided users with email service and cloud storage space. Office 365 and Google Apps similarities Both Office 365 and Google Apps gives users a level of navigation familiarity as well as providing familiar core features such as word processing, spreadsheet, presentation tools and email. Besides these familiar components, Office 365 and Google Apps offer real time collaboration and sharing, and online file storage while still allowing documents to be edited offline (Bradley, 1998-2016). The ability to navigate and search documents if you are not online, as well as being able to import, export, revise and created alternate versions of files, are also valuable features provided by Office 365 and Google Apps. Another highlighted feature of both applications is the ability to work off line. These features are valuable to the user in cases where the internet may be down or they are unable to go online (Hardenburgh, 2016). Being given the ability to utilize the benefits of the cloud while maintaining the...
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...In information technology, an application is a computer program designed to help people perform an activity. An application thus differs from an operating system (which runs a computer), a utility (which performs maintenance or general-purpose chores), and a programming language (with which computer programs are created). Depending on the activity for which it was designed, an application can manipulate text, numbers, graphics, or a combination of these elements. Some application packages offer considerable computing power by focusing on a single task, such as word processing; others, called integrated software, offer somewhat less power but include several applications.[1] User-written software tailors systems to meet the user's specific needs. User-written software include spreadsheet templates, word processor macros, scientific simulations, graphics and animation scripts. Even email filters are a kind of user software. Users create this software themselves and often overlook how important it is. The delineation between system software such as operating systems and application software is not exact, however, and is occasionally the object of controversy. For example, one of the key questions in the United States v. Microsoft antitrust trial was whether Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser was part of its Windows operating system or a separable piece of application software. As another example, the GNU/Linux naming controversy is, in part, due to disagreement about the...
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...TITLE PAGE APPENDIX A ASSIGNMENT Appendix A homework assignment title page Appendix A homework assignment Appendix A Part I Define the following terms found in Week One and Week Two readings: Term Definition Diversity To have a mix of race, religion, sex and or age of someone. Ethnocentrism Judging another culture based on how you were raised or the culture you were raised in. Judging a person based on your beliefs and upbringing. Melting pot A group or nation of people that are all from different backgrounds and nationalities. Minority group A group of people that is far outnumbered by their surround community or population. Emigration To leave one country and settle or reside in another nation. Immigration Arriving in a new country. Culture A way a person acts based on how they were raised. A norm that is with a community or nation. Part II Answer each question in 250 to 350 words: 1. What are some of the ways groups of people are identified? Groups of people can be identified in many different ways. From how they look, religious beliefs, what they wear, and what language they speak, food they eat and even wealth. One of the main ways a group can be identified is through sex. This would be the quickest way to identify a group. Instantly you can determine if someone is a male or female. As well as determining the sex of someone you can just as easily determine the race by...
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...Sistem Informasi Bisnis dalam Karir Anda 1.1. Peran sistem informasi dalam bisnis saat ini 1.1.1. Bagaimana sistem informasi mengubah bisnis? 1.1.2. Apa yang baru dalam sistem informasi manajemen? Perubahan teknologi, orang, dan organisasi. 1.1.3. Tantangan globalisasi dan peluang: sebuah perataan dunia Penggunaan internet untuk bisnis dapat mengurangi biaya operasi Pebisnis harus melihat hambatan sebagai sebuah tantangan dan peluang 1.1.4. Pengendalian bisnis dalam sistem informasi Perusahaan bisnis banyak melakukan investasi dalam sistem informasi untuk mencapai enam objek strategi bisnis, yaitu: Keunggulan operasional Produk baru, jasa, dan model bisnis Konsumen dan keakraban antar pemasok Pengambilan keputusan ditingkatkan Keunggulan kompetitif Bertahan 1.2 Perspektif tentang sistem informasi dan teknologi informasi 1.2.1 Apakah yang dimaksud sistem informasi? Penggabungan antara informasi dan data. 1.2.2 Sistem informasi tidak hanya teknologi: peran orang dan organisasi. 1.2.3 Ruang lingkup sistem informasi Organisasi Orang Teknologi 1.3 Memahami sistem informasi: pendekatan pemecahan masalah bisnis 1.3.1 Pendekatan pemecahan masalah 1.3.2 Sebuah model proses pemecahan masalah Mengidentifikasi masalah Desain solusi (dimensi masalah bisnis: dimensi organisasi, dimensi teknologi, dan dimensi orang) Evaluasi solusi dan pilihan Implementasi Pemecahan masalah: sebuah proses, bukan peristiwa 1.3...
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