...Mobile technology should be banned in classrooms. Discuss In recent years, technology has developed rapidly and in most countries classrooms have been computerized hence making studying more eventful. Mobile technology is the technology used for communication and these technology devices are portable such as laptops, mobile phones and tablets. This essay will discuss the advantages and disadvantages brought by the use of mobile technology in the classroom by arguing on one hand that it is beneficial to use mobile technology in classrooms since students can prepare for the future and Shared access to files with learners, but on the other hand mobile technology will be a distraction in a classroom because these mobile devices can be a distraction and privacy issues. To begin with, the future is about access, anywhere learning and collaboration, both locally and globally. Teaching and learning is going to be social. Schools of the future could have a traditional cohort of learners, as well as online for learners living across the country or the world also since most businesses and households will be operating with modern technology and in the future which makes the lifestyle of students, families, employees and employers tranquil. Therefore using modern technology to aid education would be beneficial for learners to prepare for the future. However mobile technology can be a distraction in a classroom because these technologies can access various types of applications such...
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...Mobile Tech Advances in “Stealing My Privacy” Mobile Technology has been around us all for some time now. It didn’t just show up in the last five to seven years. It made its debut into society as we know it far beyond that. Some may think that it showed up with the appearance of mobile phones. I mean, we all remember the amazing event that debuted a device that was to change our lives, change our way of thinking and morph our interactions with the world. I am speaking of the iPhone here. It was, in a word from the late Steve Jobs, “revolutionary”. There was so much that could be done with a 3.7” device in the palm of your hand: Email, Internet and Social Media, just to name a few. I pose the question, what about before this became a “thing”? It is a fact that ten years ago, the Smartphone was in infancy, tablet computers as they are today did not exist, and most business was conducted in person or in ways that seem tedious today. The access to business information and applications through mobile devices has grown exponentially, and there is no sign that this will stop. Apple’s iPhone and iPad running iOS and smartphones running Google Android are dominating the mobile business market, due to their flexibility and ease-of-use (SwitchPay, 2014). However, just because it is simple and easy to use and implement doesn’t necessarily warrant its acceptance. There are several other countries abroad that have not adopted mobile tech as widely as the United States. Not...
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...Oluwadamilola O. Adeyemi Dr. Msthali CIS 500 November 16, 2012 In comparing and contrasting using mobile technology to the ageless standard of in patient visits and all the procedures handled within the office or hospital setting, vital signs have been measured frequently to access the condition of a patient. Since the days of Florence Nightingale who is the mother of nursing, the standard in health care has been that taking the patients vital signs has always been a hands on in person experience. This at many times has caused days of agony and drudgery as you would deal with the discomfort of having to sit for hours upon hours in an office field with coughing, sneezing, hacking, wheezing and nauseous individuals. Each visit leaves you feeling that at any time, you may leave this office visit in a worst condition than when you came in. The assessment and monitoring of patient vital signs has typically been looked upon as one of the most routine aspects of nursing care. Monitoring patient vital signs became so mundane that usually the responsibility of taking the vital signs, even though ordered by a physician would end up being handled by a lowly Patient Care Technician. While in the hospital, vital signs are monitored on a scheduled basis. This is only interrupted if there is a change in the patient’s condition, the worse the change, the greater the increase in scheduled vital sign monitoring. However, this can also be affected by nursing judgments which...
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...Mobile Technology and Social Networking in the Health Sector Introduction Rapid technological advances have brought about a new twist of operation in the health segment. Mobile computing devices and other portable devices such as iPods and iPads have redefined the relationship between computers and human beings. These technological advances signify substantial evidence of departure from computational paradigms, which necessitated users to explicitly interact with computing systems to achieve the expected results. The health sector is also demonstrating its pursuit to be in tandem with the changing technology. By using advanced methods, which are not substitutes, but techniques to improve monitoring of patients health, the sector has demonstrated the efficiency of the use of technology to monitor patients’ status even while at home. This global integration of operations from different applications enables data sharing, via image, and voice outputs. According to Magal and Word (2011), patient monitoring is indispensable to any health facility. Several departments are equipped with electrical and computing devices that facilitate the monitoring of patient status. Not only are these facilities meant for use in the health centers, but also, technology has opened up other platforms through which patients can share their experiences with other patients of similar conditions, and monitor their health progress without the need of visiting health centers physically. Comparison of Inpatient...
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...E-commerce 2014 business. technology. society. tenth edition Global Edition Chapter 1 Introduction to E-Commerce Kenneth C. Laudon Carol Guercio Traver Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education Class Discussion Puma Loves Social, Mobile, Omni How effective do you think Puma’s Web site is as a retail e-commerce site? How does Puma use social media to support its business? How does what it does on its Facebook page differ from what it does on its Twitter page and YouTube channel, and vice versa? E-commerce Trends 2013–2014 Expansion of social, local, and mobile e-commerce Mobile platform begins to rival PC platform Continued growth of cloud computing Explosive growth in “Big Data” E-books gain wide acceptance Continued growth of user-generated content Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education 1 The First 30 Seconds First 17 years of e-commerce Just the beginning Rapid growth and change What Is E-commerce? Use of Internet and Web to transact business More formally: Digitally enabled commercial transactions between and among organizations and individuals Technologies continue to evolve at exponential rates Disruptive business change New opportunities Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education Copyright © 2014 Pearson Education E-commerce vs. E-business E-business: Digital enabling of transactions and processes within a firm, involving information systems under firm’s control...
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...People’s pace of life is increasingly fast. Numerous people depend on modern technology for work and entertainment because it is more efficient. For instance, Facebook is the most popular social network website in the world, but use of Facebook is becoming a controversial issue as it has potential hazards that threaten users’ privacy. Facebook is a great innovation since it makes people easily contact friends and families, but when users upload their personal information on profile pages, their privacy may be confirmed by strangers. Nevertheless, some people believe that users’ privacy can be protected with technological tools. Although some technology experts claim that companies can protect users’ personal information, modern technology is an invasion of privacy. Using modern technology allows other people to track users’ movements, so it invades people’s privacy. GPS devices can reveal users’ physical location information to others. Leah Yamshon, the author of “Mobile Apps Can Compromise Your Privacy” suggests that if people use GPS technology without sufficient understanding of the system, their movements may be easily tracked by other people (par. 1). Using GPS devices without controlling data transition processes may let other people easily know users’ location, yet most consumers do not know how to control data transition processes. Dishonest people can also steal users’ location information though smart phone applications. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of Senate Judiciary...
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...The Impact of Technologies on Teenagers An Assignment Submitted by Name of Student Name of Establishment Class XXXX, Section XXXX, Spring 2013 Nowadays, information technologies play a significant role in the modern world. Information technologies have a long history. Some technologies were created a few years ago, while some technologies are comparatively new. Technologies have penetrated all spheres of human activities: education, politics, trade, medicine, and this list can be prolonged. Television and phones are considered to be the primary technologies which appeared in the life of human beings. New technologies were produces in great amounts. Nonetheless, people used those technologies to simplify the process of fulfilling domestic duties. T. K. Derry et. al. mentioned that “domestic housing, though it followed on the whole traditional forms, made use of new materials and new techniques of mass production” (Derry et. al., 1961, p. 403). With further development of information technologies, many other technologies appeared. The main of them are the following ones: iPhones, iPads, and many others. Technologies have produced a great impact on teenagers: phones, television, Internet, and video games have many advantages and disadvantages; they are able to make people technologically informed, but they produce a negative impact on people’s health simultaneously. The invention of mobile phones has produced a great impact on people all over the world:...
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...revenue drivers turned their social networking platform into an advertising tool, connecting third-party businesses to quality consumers. Although Facebook’s user base and revenue are growing at very rapid rate, there is concern with their future strategy. This paper addresses that concern and the doubt that the revenue streams the company has developed will be sustainable in the long-term. Examining Facebook’s history, competition, financials and target markets will reveal a direction for the future. Recommendations are made for a long-term strategy to diversify revenue streams and maintain year over year growth in profitability through: global markets, emerging technologies and integration. Keywords: Facebook, social networking, technology, advertising, data, Internet user, global market, application development, mobile, beacon Analysis of Facebook to Develop a Business Strategy Maintaining Revenue Growth in the Future Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook in a dorm room at the campus of Harvard University in February 2004. Its initial purpose was to form a social network exclusive to Harvard, allowing the viewing of students’ personal details to the entire student body and to create a platform for communication. Within four months, Facebook had expanded to thirty colleges and had 150,000 users. With a large capital investment backing, Zuckerberg left Harvard to incorporate Facebook, Inc. (FB) and develop its platform full-time (Eisenmann, Piskorski, & Smith, 2014). In...
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...The Impact of Information Communication Technology in Public and Private Life Today It is amazing how much communication and technology has changed in such a small time frame. Comparing the impact in people’s lives over the last decade is like comparing night and day. Our overwhelming dependence on technology is one of the largest changes seen in modern society. As recently as ten years ago, it was uncommon for a child in school to own a mobile phone now almost every child not only owns a mobile phone but laptops, game systems and I Pods. Television has advanced radically over the last fifty years we have gone from watching silent, black and white movies to satellite dishes with hundreds of channels. Through the development of television we have learned about our surrounding environment in brilliant colour and sound. Consequently we are also bombarded by news, politics and the terrible events that occur in real time, to the extent that we have become immune in our reactions to developments around world. The increasing amount of time spent watching television and surfing the internet takes up a large portion of free time in comparison to previous decades and the growth spent using this technology is attributed to the growing obesity problems in today’s society. We are much more dependent on amenities such as technology and fast food and this is contributing to an overall unhealthy lifestyle. Computers were one of the most amazing technological advances of our time...
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...MOBILE COMPUTING ANS SOCIAL NETWORKING Mobile Computing and Social Networking CIS 500-Information Technology for Management Professor Clifton Howell February 23, 2014 Mobile Computing and Social Networking U S Healthcare costs have been on the rise for over 50 years, and have increased at an alarming rate of 2-3 times the norm within the past six years. This is one profession where mobile computing has had a substantial impact, and this paper will compare and contrast the monitoring of patient vital signs using mobile computing technology to in-patient visits to doctors’ offices or hospitals; it will analyze the advantages and disadvantages of using mobile computing technology to monitor patients; assess the security concerns with regard to the transmission of personal medical information over wireless networks; and assess the use of social networking for group support for patients with similar medical concerns. Mobile Computing and Social Networking In today’s society, emerging developments in technology have greatly impacted the healthcare industry, especially when it comes to patient care and the monitoring of their vitals. Traditionally, patients communicate their health concerns to their physicians, who in turn schedule an appointment and conduct a series of tests and relay the results to the patient. When the tests dictate the need to monitor a patient’s vital signs, due to resultant findings, the patient is required to check in to a local facility...
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...------------------------------------------------- Privacy and the impact of the internet Assignment #4 June 20, 2014 June 20, 2014 Privacy Rights Federally and provincially there are laws set out to protect our rights as individuals. Privacy is a right not a privilege. Privacy and Governments in Canada The 1983 federal Privacy Act puts limits and obligations on over 150 federal government departments and agencies on the collection, use and disclosure of personal information. It also gives Canadians the right to find out what personal information the federal government has about them by making a formal request under the Privacy Act. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has the authority to investigate complaints. The governments of all provinces and territories in Canada also have privacy offices and laws governing the collection, use and disclosure of personal information. The legislation varies from province to province, but the general right to access and correct personal information exists in all, and each has a commissioner or ombudsman who is authorized to handle complaints. In Ontario we have the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) Governed and enforces by the Information and Privacy Commissioner Ontario, Canada. The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) and the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA) protect the privacy of individuals with respect to their personal information...
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...Name: Yip Wing Tak Student ID: 13032581D Department: LMSS Introduction With the advancement of technology, location-based commerce is gaining in popularities among companies and one of the newest trends is to use location-based advertising which could more precisely to target the potential customers. Location-based advertising is a newly emerging form of advertising which integrates mobile advertising with location-based services. Using this technology, customers locations could be pinpointed and location-specific advertisements could be sent to their mobile devises. According to Emarker (2014), the number of smartphone users in the world have surpassed 1 billion in 2012 and totaled 1.75 billion in 2014. It is also expected that the adoption of smartphone will continue on a fast-paced trajectory through 2014. As more and more people in the globe are using smartphone in this time and age, companies are grabbing chance to penetrate into the location-based advertising so to increase the chance to hit the right potential customers. Source: http://www.emarketer.com/Article/Smartphone-Users-Worldwide-Will-Total-175-Billion-2014/1010536 How location-based advertising works? Location-based advertising is divided into 2 types, which is the opt-in and opt-out approach. For the Opt-out advertising, it refers to a not requested service which allows companies to target customers until they no longer want to advertisement to be sent to them. (Aaron,Strout, 2011) This is...
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...Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC): A Survey Abstract: Mobile devices have come a long way and their capabilities in terms of speed, raw computing capabilities, storage capacity and the applications that are real world end user friendly. The sale of mobile devices has seen a huge boom and is now surpassing those of PCs [1]. With this enormous use of smart phones across the world and as well as the introduction of cloud computing concept, Mobile Cloud computing or MCC has become the new paradigm in the world of mobile services. This paper will discuss the technology of MCC, applications and challenges faced. Mobile Cloud Computing: Introduction MCC in its simplest form can be defined as an infrastructure where the storage of data and its processing is outside a mobile device. What mobile cloud computing does is move processing and storage to the cloud and thereby bringing applications and the computing power to a broader spectrum of mobile users [2]. Mobile service providers can provide services to the subscribers as AAA which refers to authentication, authorization and as well as accounting which is based on what is known as an home agent or HA and the end users data being stored on the cloud database. Every time a request is initiated from the subscriber, it is delivered to the cloud based system with the help of Internet. The controllers on the cloud will be able to process these requests and eventually providing the subscribers with the respective cloud based service. These...
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...Today Mobile Technology is one of the most widely used technologies in the United States. This consists of all types of portable technology such as cell phones, laptops, iPad, etc. . Being confine to specific place to conduct business is a thing of the past. Business now can be done on the go, with faster communication, flexibility and availability right at your fingertips. The benefits of Mobile Technology are beyond recognition. The way one lives, breathes and thinks is centered on Mobile Technology. So, if one wants to know what the future could hold for Mobile Technology, below are some hints: * Faster shopping service * Automated check list generator * Insurance Claims on the go * Information on the go * Automatic filtering service * Real life automated video/recording service * Automatic turn off/on service * Automatic order service Today’s society is all about the three c’s communication, connection and convenience and Mobile Technology provides that in spades. From young to old almost everyone has at least a cell phone, laptop, iPad or something of the sort. Mobile Technology is at the top of its game and this paper will explore what we could be seeing in the next coming weeks, months, or years. The Future of Mobile Technology Mobile Technology has become the way one lives, breathes and thinks. Look around there’s very few people without at least a cell phone, laptop, iPad or something of the sort. The benefit of Mobile Technology...
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