...mobile phone (also known as a wireless phone, cell phone, or cellular telephone[1]) is a very small portable radio telephone. The mobile phone can be used to communicate over long distances without wires. It works by communicating with a nearby base station (also called a "cell site") which connects it to the main phone network. As the mobile phone moves around, if the mobile phone gets too far away from the cell it is connected to, that cell sends a message to another cell to tell the new cell to take over the call. This is called a "hand off," and the call continues with the new cell the phone is connected to. The hand-off is done so well and carefully that the user will usually never even know that the call was transferred to another cell. As mobile phones became more popular, they began to cost less money, and more people could afford them. Monthly plans became available for rates as low as US$30 or US$40 a month. Cell phones have become so cheap to own that they have mostly replaced pay phones and phone booths except for urban areas with many people. In recent days, more and more mobile phones are considered as "smartphones". As well as making voice calls, they can be used as computers. History Mobile phones in the 1950s through 1970s were large and heavy, and most were built into cars. In the late 20th century technology improved so people could carry their phones easily. Although Dr. Martin Cooper from Motorola made the first call using a mobile phone in 1973...
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...mobile phone use in staff and team meetings. A staff survey on attitudes towards the use of mobile phones in the staff / team meetings was conducted. The results indicate that the majority of staff find mobile phone use a major issue in staff meetings. The report concludes that personal mobile phones are disruptive and should be turned off in meetings. It is recommended that UniLab develops a company policy banning the use of mobile phones except in exceptional circumstances. Introduction There has been a massive increase in the use of personal mobile phones over the past five years and there is every indication that this will continue. According to Black (2002) by 2008 almost 100% of working people in Australia will carry personal mobile phones. Black describes this phenomenon as ‘serious in the extreme, potentially undermining the foundations of communication in our society’ (2002, p 167). Currently at UniLab 89% of staff have personal mobile phones. Recently a number of staff have complained about the use of personal mobile phones in meetings and asked what the official company policy is. At present there is no official company policy regarding phone use. This report examines the issue of mobile phone usage in staff meetings and small team meetings. It does not seek to examine the use of mobile phones in the workplace at other times, although some concerns were raised. For the purposes of this report a personal mobile phone is a personally...
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...CELL PHONES AND SOCIALIZATION Shawn Powell Strayer University ABSTRACT Cellular phones have come a long way from the exclusive use for important people. Now, the use of cell phones has gone global. People across the global can be seen using cell phones in many ways that fit their life style. This wireless device is used by both the young and the old. The use is a combination of fashion, work and social outlet. Socialization has linked its existence to the invention of the cell phone. CELL PHONES AND SOCIALIZATION The world as we know it has become technology depended on a hand held device called the cellular phone. Martin Cooper was the person who invented the first handheld cellular device in April, 1973. Ever since, the cellular device now commonly known as a cell phone has taken off to a level no one knew it could reach. Today, cell phones have grown to be a new way of everyday life. Additionally, cell phone usage has fallen into the number one category on the charts in the area of mobile communication and/or social interaction as it has multiple uses such as text messaging and surfing the internet. Cell phone conversations take place in public places causing people to interact whether it is for business or pleasure therefore maintaining the balance of social support (Khattab, 2009). However, questions have also been raised as to whether it is proper behavior depending on where a cell phone is being used (Khattab, 2009). Not only are people highly depended on...
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...Ariana Galindo Mrs. Sgarioto English 1100-400 9 December 2009 The Invisible Killer What if one were to tell you that your cell phone is slowly killing you every time you use it? Cell phones are a part of everyday life for many people across the world. To many their cell phone is considered the most important item they own. People use cell phones everyday for simple tasks. One example is going to the grocery store, when a person forgets what they were supposed to get for mom they simply call her and ask. Imagine thirty years ago? People could never do something like that. Society today relies a great deal on cell phones and their features, but do not realize the potential danger they are putting their health in. Many people around the world use cell phones every day but are unaware of the fatal outcomes linked to them. To understand how potentially harmful cell phones are society must consider the many people using them. There are three billion cell phone users worldwide and more than 260 million in the United States alone (Mead 422). It is shocking that so many people around the world and U.S are cell phone users and they all may not know how harmful cell phones can be. It is important to discover how this technology of cell phones was created and developed in order to look into how it is affecting humans. In 1974, in response to growing demand for a communication system that was more convenient than two- way radios, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allocated...
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...RAHMAN CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 2 History 2 Human Behavior and Health 2 The Parents' Approach 3 Mobile Phone Use Leading to Stress Among Teens: Study 3 METHADOLOGY 6 OPERANTITONAL DEFINITION 6 SAMPLE 6 INSTRUMENT 6 HYPOTHESIS 6 METHOD 6 RESULT 10 DISCUSSION 2 LIMITATIONS 2 INTRODUCTION A mobile phone (also known as a wireless phone or cellular phone) is a short-range, electronic device used for mobile voice or data communication over a network of specialized base stations known as cell sites. In addition to the standard voice function of a mobile phone, telephone, current mobile phones may support many additional services, and accessories, such as SMS for text messaging, email, packet switching for access to the Internet, gaming, Bluetooth, infrared, camera with video recorder and MMS for sending and receiving photos and video. Most current mobile phones connect to a cellular network of base stations (cell sites), which is in turn interconnected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN) (the exception is satellite phones). History In 1908, U.S. Patent 887,357 for a wireless telephone was issued in to Nathan B. Stubblefield of Murray, Kentucky. He applied this patent to "cave radio" telephones and not directly to cellular telephony as the term is currently understood. Cells for mobile phone base stations were invented in 1947 by Bell Labs engineers at AT&T and further developed by Bell Labs during the 1960s. Radiophones...
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...Cell Phones Technology in the country and around the world is expanding at an exponential pace. The last 10-15 years has seen a large increase for technology in everyday life. In the United States the biggest technological change is the use of cell phones in our lives for both personal and business use. Since the late 90’s cell phones have grown at a tremendous pace. Today there are very few people in the country that do not have one. Personal use of needing a cell phone has increased. Today we need to always have access to our phone for text messages, email or the old but common actual phone call. Before cell phones if you wanted to know where someone was you had to call a land line phone at their house or actually go to where they lived or worked, and this would take a lot of time out of your day either waiting or actually trying to track someone down. If you only needed to tell your spouse something simple like “pick up some milk.” Today people can just send a text message with that information and it is something you receive instantly. This has increased our connection with each other for personal use since we can talk or communicate with someone when and where we want. Cell phones in the business world have evolved even greater than personal use possibly over the same time period. When someone used to work before phones they could only receive calls or email while they were in the office. That could be a good thing, but if something needed to be done urgently or information...
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...Should kids have a smartphone? There is no doubt cell phones have vastly increased the speed in which people can contact one another. They have become quite the convenience in the modern world today. Cell phones can be seen in constant use anywhere you look, however, people struggle to know the proper age in which we should be able to obtain one of our own. It is apparent not many people have reached an agreement on how old one should be based on the range of age when children are given these devices. As opinions vary, it is evident young children before the age of fifteen are not ready to have a mobile phone based on the lack of responsibilities it requires to obtain one. Children in our modern generation have gotten use to technology being all around them. Most children from the ages of fifteen and younger can’t remember a time when cell phones and computers did not exist. In households today, seventy percent of families with small children have a tablet (Kids Wireless Use Facts). Parents with infants in society this generation use games and apps on their devices to preoccupy young ones attention. Studies show that thirtyeight percent of children under the age of two use mobile devices for media (Kids Wireless Use Facts). While infants and children should be learning and developing their own sets of skills, their minds are inside of a touchscreen or glued to a television. These unhealthy behaviors can leave them open to a lack of imagination and creativity...
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...BUS203 “SWOT and PEST Analysis of Grameenphone Limited” Submitted to: Asheka Mahboob Submitted by: Zerin Tasnim Haq (12304009) Rifat Tasfiha (12303039) Syeda Tamanna Nawar Neha(12204062) Farhana Ahmed- 12104016 Section : 02 Submission date: 11.08.2014 Table of contents: WHAT IS PEST ANALYSIS | 3-4 | ANOVERVIEW OF THE TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY | 4-5 | THE STORY OF GRAMEENPHONE | 6 | PESTLE ANALYSIS-POLITICAL | 7 | PESTLE ANALYSIS-ECONOMICAL | 8 | PESTLE ANALYSIS-SOCIAL | 8-9 | PESTLE ANALYSIS-TECHNOLOGICAL | 9-10 | PESTLE ANALYSIS-LEGAL | 11 | PESTLE ANALYSIS-ETICAL | 11-12 | Swot analysis of grameenphone-strengths | 13-14 | Swot analysis-weakness | 14-15 | Swot analysis-opportunities | 15-16 | Swot analysis-threats | 16-18 | Recommendation | 18-19 | Conclusion | 20 | REFERENCE | 21 | PESTLE analysis, which is sometimes referred as PEST analysis, is a concept in marketing principles. Moreover, this concept is used as a tool by companies to track the environment they’re operating in or are planning to launch a new project/product/service etc. PESTLE is a mnemonic which in its expanded form denotes P for Political, E for Economic, S for Social, T for Technological, L for Legal and E for Environmental. It gives a bird’s eye view of the whole environment from many different angles that one wants to check and keep a track of while contemplating on a certain idea/plan. The framework has undergone certain alterations, as gurus...
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...Cell phones have been around for quite a few years now. The cell phone came out back in 1983. The first design that came out was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X (2009). Since then we have seen the cell phone evolve from a huge block to what we have today. One of the major problems with cell phones is cell phone waste. When a new phone comes out or we break our phones we usually just throw them away. This causes a lot of waste in the dumps. There is a cell phone though in the works that I feel will help shape the way we build cell phones and other devices, if it can ever get off the drawing board. Every day we throw away millions of cell phone. The reason we throw them away is because they are out of date or they are broken. The problem with the broken cell phones is that usually it is one piece that is broken that is near impossible to fix. So when the average person finds out just how much it is to fix the phone they usually just buy a new one. That’s where Dave Hakkens comes in. Dave’s idea is simple in theory. Build a phone made up of several exchangeable blocks that connect to the base (the middle of the phone) and the base connects everything together.( Mcnicoll & Article, 2013) The blocks have two pins on one side that allows them to be connected to the base. All this is held together by two screws at the bottom of the phone. By doing this you can extend the life of the cell phone by upgrading the specific block on the phone you want. For example let’s say...
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...Sarah Randall Do you think phones are killing the bees? Yes, Radiation from mobile phones are what is killing large masses of bees everyday. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/are-mobile-phones-wiping-out-our-bees-444768.html Do you think phones are worth a lot of money? Experts say that yes, phones are worth what they are selling for because of all of the high tech programs they put in them these days, like internet, cameras, music players, etc. http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/06/iphone-first-im.html Do you think texting will be around in the next 20 years? The answer is yes, it will be. There will be a many more programs and things in your phones and the texting will be advanced. But phone calls will probably come to an end and texting will take over. http://cynosure.crystalking.com/?p=94 Is it worth paying your monthly phone bill? Most people 12-25 believe that being able to communicate with their friends through text is worth paying their phone bill. The people who didn’t grow up texting do not. http://www.macworld.com/article/134703/2008/07/expensive_cellphones.html Do you think people will use regular communication skills in the future? In some cases, yes. But as the years go on calling will come to an end to the younger children and over 75% of people will use texting as their main communication. http://www.impactfactory.com/ When your grandkids go to school do you think they’ll be texting their answers...
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...Mobile Phones As everybody knows, mobile phones have become an essecial tool, which plays a big and important role in our daily lives. Nowadays, there is no doubt that everybody has one of them. But why are they such popular? Are they useful? To start with, humans were meant to be sociable and talk to each other, we need to get in touch with other people, so that’s probably why it is convenient for us to have mobile phones, because we can call other people who are even in another country at any time! Moreover, they are portable, so we can carry them everywhere. In addition, they enable us to do emergency calls. For example, imagine that you have suffered a car accident and there’s nobody on the road or if you see a crime taking place…, it’s very helpful to do an emergency call in these cases. Police can locate kidnappers using the victim’s mobile phones’ networks! Furthermore, you can do many things with them. For instance, you can listen to music, make photos, share documents, surf the Net and so on. Nevertheless, there isn’t any evidence to prove they are safe to use and they are believed to give out radioactive waves and scientists believe the radioactivity can cause health issues such as brain tumor or damage our ears. Apart from that, people become addicted to them. People tend to talk to other people through the mobile phone instead of talking to the people they are with in that moment and there’s no doubt this affect students, because they use them during lessons...
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...cell phones while driving, or speaking to someone in another country. Society can also use cell phones in the business world also, for example, people use them to set up meeting, send co-workers information or even trade with other businesses. In this country having a cell phone is one of the things that people rely heavily on. Cell phones are more than the latest electronics in the market. It’s also one of the major parts of businesses and personal lives. All states make reckless and careless driving illegal. However some states have restrictions on using a cell phone while driving a vehicle. According to Monash University drivers who have a hand- held device is more likely to get into crashes serious enough to injure themselves. In California, drivers are required to use a hands free set while talking on the cell phone. If you are caught for the first time it’s a fee of 20 dollars. According to the safety laws in California it will be on your driving records and no points will be added on. In Florida cell phone are permitted, but only as long as you can hear the sounds in one ear and hear you’re surrounding sounds in the other ear. Communication is one of the necessities to a successful business in today’s world. With a cell phone it makes employees at a company easier to communicate with each other. It also makes it easier for a business executive to take calls, instead of him sitting at a desk waiting on a call, he can take calls from anywhere with a cell phone. In the...
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...have become a popular target among hackers and malware producers. It is a high-reward business because most people are unaware that their cellphone is just as vulnerable to cyber attacks as their desktop computer. Think about all of the things that you do on your cellphone, and then imagine a worst case scenario we can keep our cellphones, and our data, safe. ---->The most obvious threat to the security of our smartphones is simply for the device to falls into the wrong hands. As silly as this sound, most cases of smartphone data theft begins with a lost or stolen phone. The first line of defense is common sense. Don't put your phone down in a public place, and don't leave it where it is easily grabbed. In short, treat your phone as you would your wallet. In case your phone does get snatched by a passing evildoer, the next step is to make sure that you have a secure screen lock. For Blackberry, iOS and Windows phones use a secure password. Something that's easily remembered, but not easily guessed. If it includes personal information such as your name, birthday or address it is not safe. For Android users, make sure that your unlock pattern is relatively complex and crosses over itself. If not, somebody can deduce your pattern from the repeated smudge marks on your...
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...attached to our phones. We would hardly communicate with each other, because we were so consumed in our phones. Being in a generation that has grown up on technology I get excited not frustrated with advances in technology. Older generations cannot seem to understand why “those young kids are attached to those things”. I honestly don’t know much different. I have always had a colored T.V a VCR, a CD player and a computer. Sure all of those have morphed into newer and better things, but I don’t know much else but technology. I think that even though I have always had technology around as I have gotten a little bit older I have become more aware of the damages it can do to our society. The video assigned to watch says it all. People can’t even go to the bathroom without using their phones! I loved the video, because although a couple of them were a little extreme, most of them I am guilty of! Because of my Iphone craze, I talked both my parents into upgrading there “bricks” into iphone. I have noticed that when we go out to dinner all three of us are on our phones until our food arrives. We do not talk as much as we used to because of the phones. It actually saddens me. As far as friends go, I have realized that I get really annoyed at one of my friends that is constantly on her phone. I don’t ever feel like she is listening to me and I often have to repeat myself because she indeed wasn’t listening. I have learned to appreciate the time that she puts her phone down for more...
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...means of communication which have made our life so simple and easy going. Mobile phone can be seen as the most used present day phenomenon in this fast growing time. Mobile phone is a revolutionary step in the field of tele-communication. We had the days when the telephones only served the purpose of communication through sound. Mobile phone has completely changed the concept of the telephoning. Now a phone is not only a mere phone but it is a lot in itself. A mobile phone works on a unique networked system which needs no wiring, no fixation and no botheration. Originally it was used in cars, airlines, and passanger trains but increasingly it is becoming ubiquitous. It is basically low- power radio telephone. In this magical system calls go through radio transmitters that are located within small geographical unit which are known as cells. Since each cell's signals are too weak to interfere with those of other cells operating on the same frequencies and more channels can be used than would be possible with high power radio frequency transmission. Narrow-band frequency modulation (FM) is the most common mode of transmission, each message is assigned a carrier, unique to the cell from which it is transmitted. The cellular phone was first tested in 1978. The cellular market in Britain alone had grown at a rapid rate to 8.5 million users by 1997. In Japan it is as high as one mobile phone per ten people. However, when the number of cellulars users had increased many new...
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