...It can be often seen that smartphones are said to be root of various problems for teenagers by parents of these young people all around the world that has access to this service. This thought is strengthened even more by an article from The Atlantic written by Jean M. Twenge (2017), a professor of psychology at San Diego State University. By the article he conveys the message that higher use of smartphone has direct relations to higher suicide rate, depression and lower morale among people of young age and has a higher effect on girls than boys. Another study conducted by Anders Raustorp, Peter Pagels, Andreas Fröberg and Cecilia Boldeman (2013) on Swedish Teenagers indicate that smartphones may be the reason for the significant reduction of...
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...Effects of smartphones in class The number of kids with phones has just been blown out of the water the last couple of year. Four years ago, if any of the students in class had a phone, it was a dial-phone that maybe they could text on. And now , it’s all smartphones. It’s been an issue in schools, colleges, and universities across the country for quite some time. In fact, cellular phones were an early problem when students were distracted by phone calls and texts messaging, but now smartphones can do just about anything your computer or laptop can, but in an easily concealable handheld device. Assalamualaikum and a very good morning to our respective teachers and my fellow friends. Today I will be talking about the effects of smartphones. Smartphones is a cellular phone that performs many of the functions of a computer, typically having a touchscreen interface, Internet access, and an operating system capable of running downloaded applications. Nowadays, most of the students own smartphones. According to an article posted in Trends in Ed, 50% of students own it. The use of phones is usually discouraged on the first day of class by teachers and professors, or talked about in the class syllabus with consequences for even the first infraction. After all, since smartphones pretty much allow you to do anything you want these days, having them in the classroom might be distracting students more than ever. Smartphones allow students to text, check, and interact...
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...Impact of smartphones on students’ work habits The modern day student is now equipped with smartphones and it is a rare site to see a student who doesn’t have a smartphone or a computer. As the age limit for owning these things are also being brought down as we now see small kids and primary students having these devices when they were once only bought after a certain age. The age limit for having these devices are going down and therefore the chances are that the modern day high school student has probably grown up being surrounded by smartphones and technology that he/she is proficient in its use by the time they are all grown up. These smartphones, being a major part of the modern teen society, plays major roles in their lives. Teenagers and students use them for entertainment, playing games, watching movies, and texting and calling our friends. As you can see smartphones play a major role in a teenager’s life and the typical teenager is usually inseparable from their mobile companion. Therefore it is only natural to include this device into a school students education, as they can learn of a device that they are so used to living with as well as the potential for learning material to be presented on a much more interesting basis due to the interactive capabilities of a smartphone. The question is, although using smartphones in the education department sounds appealing and intuitive, will it actually aid with education or provide the students with further distractions that’s...
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...Impacts of Smartphones on Our Lives Nowadays, most people have classic cellphones or smartphones and they are still buying it. Smartphones are spreading worldwide like an epidemic and as a result of this; our life styles have started to change. Now, people are living with their smartphones, they are taking selfies, organizing their accounts, playing games, find their ways to home as a navigation. According to Pew Internet Project’s research, as 2014 January 90% of American adults has cellphones and as 2014 October %64 of these adults owns a smartphone. In other words, smartphones had become a necessary part of our lives. As a result of this, our lives had been affected by smartphones in different ways, with beneficial and detrimental effects of smartphones; they provide new business areas, online education systems, healthcare assistance and more. They make life easier for us. However, they ruin our social lives, make us lazier and sillier than before and they make us addicted to their selves. Therefore, I will argue the impacts of smartphones in our lives....
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...JÖ N K Ö P I N G I N T E R N A T I O N A L BU SI N E SS SC H O O L JÖ N KÖ P IN G U N IVERSITY F actors A ffecting C onsumer R esistance t o Innovation -A study of Smartphones- Master Thesis within Business Administration Author: Kamran Khan Kim Hyunwoo Tutor: Desalegn Abraha Jönköping May 2009 Abstract Background: In mobile phone industry, Smartphones are gaining popularity as an effective communication tool, providing users with “Smart” functionalities of both cell phone and Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). Experts in mobile industry expect that smartphones are going to be dominant in mobile phone market. However, Smartphone industry is facing a different reality, with its declining sales and less market share, forcing research companies (Gartner, Canalys, etc.) to change their expectations. This situation leads us to another important and often ignored perspective of innovation challenges, i.e. consumers' resistance; as consumers' adoption and purchase decision makes a significant difference in the success of innovative products. Problem: Innovation has been called as a key factor for companies to survive and grow in the long run, especially in the dynamic & complex markets and uncertain economic circumstances. Despite the successful outcome of innovations, inhibition or delay in the diffusion of innovation may translate this success into market failure, where resistance has been called as one of the main reasons for inhibiting or...
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...The Impact of Smartphone in Employees Performance in AMA University A Research project Submitted to the College of Business and Finance In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Subject ITMA 570 Prepared by: Introduction Smartphone technology are growing so fast more than any other electronic equipment in the world and has improve our access to information technology. Smart phone applications for quick access and ease of service anytime anywhere . The usage of this technology on the personal and professional level is becoming a widespread nowadays. Casual observation shows that smart phone have taken the way people communicate in their workplace and affect their working performance. This comes as no surprise in the information technology world nowadays. Despite their popularity. One must consider whether smart phones are merely a workplace appropriateness or source of distraction. For instance, a worker attending a meeting can retrieve whatever information he/she needs while he/she is in the conversance room; however, that same worker can disrupt the meeting each time his/her phone rings. Arguably, there are pros and cons for the performance of the employee of using the smart phone in their work performance, but it is important to relies the potential liability that smart phone effect the employees performance. We are in a litigious society with a rise in the organization liability, Thompson and Bluvshtein (2008) (1) report that " … employee use of technology is resulting...
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...SWOT anais method and examples, with free SWOT template The SWOT analysis is an extremely useful tool for understanding and decision-making for all sorts of situations in business and organizations. SWOT is an acronym for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats. Information about the origins and inventors of SWOT analysis is below. The SWOT analysis headings provide a good framework for reviewing strategy, position and direction of a company or business proposition, or any other idea. Completing a SWOT analysis is very simple, and is a good subject for workshop sessions. SWOT analysis also works well in brainstorming meetings. Use SWOT analysis for business planning, strategic planning, competitor evaluation, marketing, business and product development and research reports. You can also use SWOT analysis exercises for team building games. Note that SWOT analysis is often interpreted and used as a SWOT Analysis 2x2 Matrix, especially in business and marketing planning. In addition to this 2x2 matrix method, SWOT analysis is also a widely recognized method for gathering, structuring, presenting and reviewing extensive planning data within a larger business or project planning process. See also PEST analysis, which measures a business's market and potential according to external factors; Political, Economic, Social and Technological. It is often helpful to complete a PEST analysis prior to a SWOT analysis. In other situations it may be more useful to complete a PEST...
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...Smartphone Technology on United States Economy AP Economics/ Period 4 Mr. Dolgin November 14, 2013 As a country now surrounded by many devices and companies associated with technology, probably the first piece of that technology that has launched America to where it is now is the Smartphone. But what has it done for us since it first came out? With the recent increase in technological innovation among phones, consumers have been buying and upgrading their cell phones whenever they please. This has led to the Smartphone-producing companies’ stocks to increase. It has also led to a big rise in jobs in the job economy. The Smartphone has also made itself very valuable and wanted by consumers. Since Smartphone technology is prominent in the daily lives of everyone, I see the tech-device having a positive effect on the United States Economy by increasing growth and welfare on the companies and consumers. Since the time the Smartphone was introduced, many stock values for technology-savvy companies have risen. According to The Denver Post, Apple’s success from the iPhone since its launch in 2007 has made the company get the title of “the most valuable company in American History” due to Apple’s stocks and what the company is worth. With the iPhone constantly upgrading and consumers buying the product, the value of Apple continues to accelerate. The stock market as a whole has definitely risen since 2007. According to Bryan Borzykowski from BBC, since...
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...detail of his hatred for the culture of smartphones and why he would never get one for his kids. He says smartphones are the reason kids today are meaner. Louie also explains the negative emotional effects of they have on adult; using them to avoid confronting negative emotions. Louis argument is very well said; he provides a vast amount of explanation, that anyone who owns a smartphone can relate to, whether they want to or not. The first stance Louis takes, explaining his hatred for smartphones, is how smartphones are making kids meaner. He states that at some point kids are going to be mean or say something mean to some one, but in seeing the reaction of the person they gain a sense of empathy. That if the child had done the same thing using their phone, they otherwise wouldn’t learn. Also in doing that they might find some sort of pleasure in making someone feel bad. In Louis explanation of this he credits himself with a strong use logos, by playing out a situation that shows a shows the negative effect of smartphone can have o a developing young mind. Also using ethos by using the audiences own sense of empathy to relate to the lack there of empathy, in these kids using smartphones. His statement makes since, because we can all agree that it’s a lot easier to intentionally offend or verbally attack someone through the screen of you phone or computer, than it is face to face. Louis next point that he makes is how adults use smartphones as a distraction to avoid confronting...
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...Smartphones and Younger Generation In 2011, Tim Pike discussed the increasing amount of younger generation using smartphones nowadays in the article “How smartphones technology affects society.” (Pike, 2011). Pike wrote: “The advantage of a smartphone is the advent of fastest connection and a transfer speed, which means; potentially children can always be instantly connected”. In other words, smartphones help parents be aware of what children do, tighten the connection between parents and children, and increase their safeness wherever they are. Personally, I disagree with the author’s point that with the common of smartphones using, children could be safer with a smartphone and could be connected immediately. It is true to say that smartphones help people communicate instantly, no matter where you are. However, it is not necessary for a child to own a smartphone. In fact, it is not safe at all to have a child separated from their parents, go on their own and have a smartphone to contact to their parents. They always need to have adults with them if their parents busy and couldn’t take care of their children. Following a recent survey lead by mobile service provider Zact found that 56% of 10-to-13-year-old children own a smartphone, 25% of 2-to-5-year-old children also have a smartphone. It’s not reasonable and sensible to give children a smartphone in that age if they are accompanied by the adult. Smartphone will disrupt the bond between children and parents more than help...
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...College of Engineering & Information Technology Al Ain University of Science & Technology, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates E-mail: tariq.soomro@aau.ac.ae Tel: +971-3-7024883; Fax: +971-3-7024777 Abstract The intention of this study is to investigate how Smartphone‘s are impacting the society and also how Smartphone‘s are going to transform the culture, social life, technology landscape and other diverse aspects of modern society. The intention of this study is to understand all the positive and negative aspects of Smartphone on the society. The study will primarily focus on impact of Smartphone on business, education, health sectors, human psychology and social life. At the end, the study will summarize the impact and conclude based on wide range of impacts that Smartphone‘s have on society. The paper will also recommend solutions, in order to reduce the negative impacts of Smartphone‘s and realizes more benefits of this exiting technology. Keywords: Smartphone,...
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...GLOBAL BUSINSESS OPERATION ADEGBENRO ELEWADE MIB 34- 130226 INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT QUESTION- You have been employed as a business consultant to advise a company manufacturing smart phones who wishes to explore the potential of doing business in one Latin American emerging market. You must produce a report that identifies the key issues that the company will face in your chosen market and secondly offer expert advice to attain business success in that market. CONTENTS- 1. Introduction. 2. View of Brazil’s economy. 3. Brazil as a BRICS Economy. 4. Market for smart phones in Brazil. 5. Using the porter’s five forces to analyse the market for smart phones in Brazil. 6. Competitors existing in the market. 7. How to enter the market. 8. Constraints to success for the company (using PESTLE model). 9. How to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. 1. INTRODUCTION The Cost (this involves the legal cost, corruption, lack of infrastructure), Benefits (size of the economy or economy growth),Risk (political-social unrest, economic mis-management) analysis has been used to analyse the favourable emerging market in Latin America which is Brazil. The main reasons for choosing this market will discussed in details. 2. OVERVIEW OF BRAZIL’S ECONOMY The chosen market is BRAZIL which is an emerging market and also the largest of the Latin American nations and the second largest in the western hemisphere with...
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...Sade’ McMullen Professor Rozga English 1102 October 21, 2013 The world today revolves around technology. Everywhere we look, something new is being created. Whether it’s the new iPhone, tablet, or even inventions like paper towel dispensers. As I looked for another outlet to compare the LCK monologue to, I came across one about bathroom technology by a comedian, Demetri Martin. Martin explains his hatred towards new technology, except his is about bathroom technology. In the LCK monologue, he talks about his hatred towards smartphones and how they are effecting today’s society I feel the claim being made is that many of these new advances serve no purpose and isn’t needed in today’s world. In the LCK monologue, he explains how kids want a smartphone because all their peers have one and they want to look cool in order to not be an outcast (LCK smartphones). Martin also tells a story of how the inventors of technology thought it would be cool to have all these automated devices in public restrooms. Martin does not like the devices because of how complex it is to use them. He believes the devices make people look stupid just trying to get them to work properly.(Martin Bathrooms) In LCK monologue, he believes society has become lazier and we let technology do a lot for us. For example, kids playing video games all day long instead of going outside to play with the neighborhood kids. Since the inventors built the new devices in bathrooms, it makes people look lazy as if they...
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...Adrianna Thompson English 111 Essay 3 Thursday, November 20th, 2014 Positive Impact of Smart phones Modern day smartphones have made one of the largest impacts on human lives. There are so many outstanding features that have us wondering what we would do without them. Your whole life is at the touch of your fingertip. Smartphones have made lives of people easier and much more comfortable. Smartphones have everything from texting to checking the weather, reminders, music, surfing the web and, entertainment! It is unbelievable the incredible features you receive from something so small and delicate. Now we can never imagine ourselves without them! Smartphones allow you to do so many thing on them; so lets take some time to talk about a few of them, applications, texting/calling and, photographs. Smartphones have had one of the most positive impacts on everyday human life and allowed the most satisfactory. The applications that smartphones provide us have humans attached and wanting more. Downloading social media allows us to connect with other people from all over the world. Social media also enables us to post pictures of our own lives. There are applications for things like banking, bill reminders, job kiosks; instead of carrying around a load of paper coupons you are able to search and save all of the coupons you want on one app. Applications have the ability to save us from a late bill, allows us to access accounts and check balances. Also if you lose your phone it’s...
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...for the Windows PC platform, into a larger share of the smartphone market. The companies promise to developers, that they can write one app which will work across any Windows device, is also an attempt by the company to align its technology with its strategy. As the article explains, most developers have shifted focus from writing apps for PC’s to writing apps for smartphones. This shift is doubly troubling for Microsoft, because it means developers will be shifting their focus from any potential Windows developments to a market that is primarily dominated by IPhone and Android users. Microsoft’s weak position in the smartphone market, just above 1% at the end of 2015 (Green, 2016), means the company would face significant challenges to gain market share without the success of its UWP. Specially, the technology would allow “Developers can write programs for the Windows 10 operating system and have them run on PCs, tablets, smartphones, game consoles and, eventually, Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented-reality headgear.” (Green, 2016) This means, one application can be written for a phone and used on a PC. The appeal, to consumers and developers, is they would no longer be limited to one platform when using or developing applications. Hopefully making customers more inclined to switch all of their devices to Windows 10. Analysis If the company is successful, it can hope to overcome the smartphones lack of network effect on the market. If an application can be written for one...
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