...Cell Phones Are Good Re: “Why I hate Cell Phones,” written by Sarah Reihani It is true that with cell phones you get distracted from doing work or get caught up on a conversation and don’t focus on things that need to be done. This is something I can agree with. Even thought it might not always seem like having a phone is a good thing, in the end it always best to have a phone with you at all time. Today cell phones are a great technology and an essential tool for everyone that goes anywhere outside their houses. Cell phones are not only a distraction throughout media but they help a wide world generation stay on top of good news. Also cell phones now a days have GPS capabilities as long as you have signal you can know exactly where you are...
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...user; large companies have resisted letting employees use iPhones on corporate networks The iPhone accounted for 16.1% of the market in the quarter, compared to 10.9% the same period a year ago, IDC said in releasing its quarterly report Friday. In terms of shipments, Apple shipped 8.8 million units, a 131.6% increase from the 3.8 million shipments a year ago. RIM, meanwhile, saws its share drop to 19.4% from 20.9% a year ago. Nevertheless, the company shipped 10.6 million units, a 45.2% increase from the 7.3 million units shipped a year ago. Overall, the growth rate of the global smartphone market more than doubled the mobile phone market as a whole. Vendors shipped 54.7 million smartphones in the quarter, up 56.7% from a year ago. In contrast, the overall mobile phone market grew 21.7%. Smartphones accounted for 18.8% of all mobile phones shipped in the quarter, compared to...
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...I recently bought a new smartphone from AT&T and received a defective phone. I went into the AT&T store to exchange the phone, but the representatives told me to call their 1-800 number. Due to the fact that my phone was not working, I was unable to call the number. After arguing with the representative, they agreed to call the number for me. The associate said that I would have to wait at least a couple of days for my new phone that I need every day for communication. The reason why I bought my phone from AT&T was because they are a big company. I thought that I will get a good condition phone and if something happen, they will provide a good service to solve my problem. However, the service gap between my expectation and the service I received...
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...have cell phones in elementary and high schools? Personally, I believe students should be allowed to have cell phones in elementary and high schools. However, I don’t believe students should be allowed to use them during school hours. It is very useful for a student to have their phone after school when walking home just in case of an emergency. There are plenty of kids I know that get scared to walk home but have no choice. There are also a few kids I know that go to a friend’s house without asking. Being scared to walk home seems strange maybe, but, I know what this feels like. Being on the phone with my mom or friend helped me deal with my fear and to overcome it. It is also very nice to have a phone on you when you are getting a ride with a friend. This is because you can call your parent and let them know to save their gas. It’s a win win situation at that point. If it were allowed for elementary and high school kids to have their phones, I believe there would be less abduction’s that end badly. The reason I believe this is because with the new GPS apps on most phones these days, parents can track their child as long as the child has their phone on them. My older sister has wondered off without my mom’s permission and because of the AT&T family map GPS; she was able to track her down. Some abduction’s I have heard of happened at a bus stop or while a child was walking home from school. Having a phone on them could have made it possible to find them quicker. I understand...
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...Wozniak and his friends Ronald Wayne. When Jobs first met Steve Wozniak and began building computers in a bedroom of his parents’ house in 1976. At that time, they were contrary to popular wisdom because both are college dropouts to establish the Apple Company. At the beginning, they build the computer boxes that just allowed him to make long-distance phone calls for free, it was a small business. “Until the introduction of the Macintosh line of personal computers in 1984 established the company as an innovator in industrial design whose products became renowned for their intuitive case of use”. In 1985, John Sculley presumes the helm after a management shakeup that causes the leave out of Steve Jobs and several other high level executives. However creative like a art, Steve Jobs is a casual and very creative thinking people, he conceived the product also shows that it has a simple and have a unique personal art style, Both in product design or function are apparent to American creativity and freedom-loving character, For example the I-phone without any keyboard or you can download the different application in your own phone. This is different from...
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...I had completed two interviews at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation to become a nutrient assistant and they went very good. I only had one peer interview left before I would be working there. About a week after the peer interview, I received a phone call from the hiring manager stating “ Thank you for your time, but the position has been filled.” Two months later I applied to the National Honor Society. Around two weeks after submitting my application, I received a letter in the mail informing me that I was not accepted. After not getting the Hazelden job, I was forced to change my approach. In other words, I had to prepare in a different way. I continued my job search and that is when my business teacher referred me to MidWestOne Bank. Learning...
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...| Apple’s Strategic Management | MGT2037 Principles of Management | | Walker, Craig | 2/24/2015 | [Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document. Type the abstract of the document here. The abstract is typically a short summary of the contents of the document.] | Apple, Inc. is an know name in computer technology, Apple leads the computer and technology industry in innovation thanks to the award winning desktop and notebook computer known as OX X operating system (Yoffie & Slind 2008). Apple management style has been documented and used to study how to be a successful business. Steve Job was a pioneer in the way he took the company leadership to become a top company. Apple success is no secret even if secrecy is part of their strategic strategy. They invest in their employee and this help them not only a strong company but a company that people tops in the technology field are flocking to work with. For Apple to be a successful organization it has to have a successful strategic management plan, the managers must learn to think strategically and have the ability to evaluate their environment and develop new ideas. Steve Jobs one of the founding fathers of Apple Inc. used strategic planning to his advantage by making Apple mission simple one-bringing easy to use computers to the market place and revolutionizing the industry with simple easy computers and devices for consumers to use. Apple...
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...My lifes lesson was and still is friendship Navia and I and I had been best friends since before I can remember. She lived next door to me and our mothers were really good friends. We would say that we were bestfriends for infinity. We were inseperable . Our parents would call us Thelma & Louise because were so bad. Once we came up with this bright idea to steal all of our nightlights in both of our houses to make a home for lightning bugs. It was 1993 on a beautiful summer Sunday. I had just left church and arrived back at home. When we pulled up I saw the movers taking everything out of Navia’s house. I was devastated. I felt as if I would never see my friend again. We hugged and cried until it was time for her to get in the car and leave. For awhile, we talk on the phone everyday. I would tell her all the latest gossip of the neighborhood kids. Yet, after awhile the conversations became shorter and the calls became less frequent. Here it is 1999 , I had a new life and new friends. I was captain of the cheerleading team and president of Fashion DESIGN TEAM. I was in seventh grade and now and I thought I had so many friends I couldn’t keep up. Well, at least in my head I thought I did. You couldn’t tell me I wasn’t a cool kid. Just when I thought life couldn’t get any better, my mom dropped a bomb on me. She said, “Nikki your bestfriend is very sick” I responded, “Who? Shanea? Or is it Melissa. Oh no! I know who… it is Brittany! She’s fine mom. She just got...
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...1. Cupertino, California based high school friends Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs produced their first computer, the single-board Apple I, in a garage workshop in 1976. After selling 200 or so of the computer, Jobs attracted the attention of some investors, co-founding Apple Computer with Wozniak, and introducing the Apple II computer in 1977. Steven Wozniak and Steven Jobs had been friends in high school. They had both been interested in electronics, and both had been perceived as outsiders. They kept in touch after graduation, and both ended up dropping out of school and getting jobs working for companies in Silicon Valley. (Woz for Hewlett-Packard, Jobs for Atari) Wozniak had been dabbling in computer-design for some time when, in 1976, he designed what would become the Apple I. Jobs, who had an eye for the future, insisted that he and Wozniak try to sell the machine, and on April 1, 1976, Apple Computer was born. Hobbyists did not take the Apple I very seriously, and Apple did not begin to take off until 1977, when the Apple II debuted at a local computer trade show. The first personal computer to come in a plastic case and include color graphics, the Apple II was an impressive machine. Orders for Apple machines were multiplied by several times after its introduction. And with the introduction in early '78 of the Apple Disk II, the most inexpensive, easy to use floppy drive ever (at the time), Apple sales further increased. With the increase in sales, however, came...
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...Dear Owners of “Smart” Phones, When I was little, we had a dial phone in my basement. I would play with it and listen to the “whoosh” sound the dial made as I released the numbers, and then I would quickly hang up before I accidentally called someone. We had one other phone in our house, in the kitchen to be exact, and it was a big, white rectangular box. The only difference between this phone and the dial phone in my basement is that this phone had keys. Touch tone keys! The phone had advanced significantly since Alexander Graham Bell’s invention. The telephone had advanced from connected to a wall with a cord, to a handheld portable phone, to the mobile cell phone. Fascinating… America thought. The mobile cellular phone. Sounds brilliant. We can now carry our phones around with us twenty-four seven, three hundred and sixty-five days a year. People can reach us literally anytime of any day; we will never be alone. We will never miss important messages or notifications. Now, there are these things called smart phones; they have an “app” for just about everything ranging from checking the weather, Facebook, or Twitter, to a new mother having an “app” to remember when she last fed her newborn. Just how smart are they? Do we really want to know? What the inventors of the smart phone aren’t telling us, is that the “smartness” of these phones is getting out of hand. These secrets are locked away for us to never find out, but just like every other secret out there, the secret...
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...The Success of the Cell Phone One of the most used and successful products used today is the cell phone. There are many reasons why is it used worldwide today. Despite having its pros there are also many cons to owning a cell phone. One of the reasons it is so successful is the fact that everyone needs one. It is mobile and can travel anywhere with you. As soon as I was old enough to go out on my own with my friends, for example, the first gift my parents bought me was a cell phone so they could contact me to make sure I was safe. The age of children receiving cell phones is getting younger and younger leading to an increase in sales. Another reason the cell phone is so successful is that is now a fashion statement. The I-Phone, for example, was one of the most successful selling cell phones in the last few years just because it was seen as the “cool” phone to own. I know that most of friends own one and myself included. I bought it because of how advanced it was compared to the other phones which is another reason this particular cell phone was so successful. As I briefly stated above cell phones are advancing in many ways which is another reason so many people buy them. On your cell phone you can have: internet access, satellite navigation systems, facebook and cameras. All these amazing applications lead to consumers constantly upgrading their phones for the new “in” application despite the price increase. As I stated before there are also many cons...
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...Are cell phones dangerous? Do you have a personal cell phone? Do you know that cell phones have evolved rapidly in the past few years and have become the world's most useful electronic? Cell phones were first tested in the late 1970s by Illinois Bell in Chicago, Illinois, and they were a great success. Cellular Radio Telephones, also known as cell phones, have low-powered and lightweight radio transceiver that provides voice telephone and other services to mobile users. Cell phones primarily operate like portable telephones. However, unlike cordless phones, cell phones are completely portable and do not require a jack to access the wire-based networks operated by local telephone companies like PNCC. In today's modern society new generation of services for cell phones have increased. Now it provides videoconferencing and Internet access with the ability to send e-mail. Cellular telephones have become very popular with professionals and consumers as a way to communicate while away from their regular, wire-based phones. Although cell phones bring some conveniences and benefits to our lives, they also have some potentially dangerous effects. Cell phones are potentially dangerous when people tend to talk on their cell phones while driving and by doing so; it creates a greater risk of getting into an accident. Sometimes when you're talking on the phone, you tend to lose your attention on the road because of your focus on the person that's talking to you. Once, for example, you...
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...Driving New Jersey has a Cell Phone & Driving law that affects all of its citizens. This law attempts to make the road a safer place, so it affects the lives of pedestrians and those who don’t own cell phones too, because everyone is in danger when a driver isn’t paying attention. In my Argument and Persuasion course, we are discussing this Cell Phone & Driving law, causing the class to take different sides. As opinions become more and more divided, I realize that this issue is very controversial. The New Jersey Cell Phone Law prohibits drivers from using handheld phones while driving. You may, however, use a speakerphone, a Bluetooth, a headset, or install a car kit. If you are caught using your cell phone while driving, you will be fined 100 dollars, and it is a “primary law” meaning that the officer doesn’t need a reason other than seeing your cell phone out to pull you over. Personally, I feel that the 100-dollar fine is too lenient. I have a friend who recently had his car towed out of a parking lot, and was fined 100 dollars, the same amount for using your cell phone and driving. I don't think the fine should be the same for something that is potentially life threating and something that is not. I think the fine should be between $500 and $1000. However, I recognize that not everyone agrees with me; some of my classmates think that the law is too harsh, or just right. In my Arguments & Persuasions class I have heard sides of the argument displayed...
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...huge amount is phone usage, and a decent amount of TV/iPad use. In a lot of situations my media use is more instrumental rather than habitual. For instance I could be in the middle of cooking and feeding my nephew but yet I still have the nerve to reach for my phone without it going off. In the process of arriving at the airport and waiting to board, I noticed there are things everyone else does along with myself that has to do with media use. The repetitive action of checking my phone is more frequently becoming something like a hobby. That says a lot about my media use, it's something I do without even thinking about it sometimes. and get deep into whatever I'm doing. On my chart, I observed while doing my homework I would look over to my phone or constantly grasp it for no reason. The average person checks their phone one-hundred and ten times a day. I can say the longest period of time without touching or using my phone is three and a half hours, and that was because I was on a plane. But on a normal routine day I'd say no longer than forty-five minutes, this has become the norm for me within the last three years. During the days I spent recording my media use, I also asked e few people I encountered what's the first thing they do after waking up. And the majority of them said they check their phones first thing. The use of phone and TV media has changed for me over the past five years. I was sixteen at the time, when my mother got me my first real phone. No it's wasn't...
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...NTT DoCoMo: Marketing i-mode To ease the congestion problem, in 1997, DoCoMo gave Enoki—a lifetime employee who had worked his way up through NTT’s engineering ranks—a mandate to convince DoCoMo subscribers to begin using their cell phones in a fundamentally different way. More specifically, the mandate was to build a wireless Internet service that would create demand for sending/receiving text-based data via cell phones. Enoki decided to use DoCoMo’s existing packet switched network for the new service, which minimized the overall investment associated with the project.3 One advantage of such a network was that instead of having to keep a wireless circuit open for the duration of a phone call, it was possible for DoCoMo to interweave text-based data packets into a voice stream—allowing multiple subscribers to “share” a single circuit. In building a team to help him create the mobile Internet service, Enoki began by recruiting two outsiders who he believed would help him break free of the rigid, technical mindset that permeated NTT’s engineering-driven culture. The first was Mari Matsunaga, a marketing guru who had achieved a reputation as an editor-in-chief extraordinaire at Recruit, a Japanese magazine publishing house. Given the fact that Matsunaga had zero technical expertise (she didn’t even own a cell phone at the time), Enoki’s decision to bring her on board took many in the company by surprise. Enoki explained: In traditional Japanese companies, you’re...
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