...Product Life Cycle Movie Rentals Introductory= When movie rentals was first introduced demand had not yet been developed, so of course pricing was higher. For example in 1977 the first video rental place was started annual membership fee was $50 and lifetime membership was $100. Movie rental was $10/day. When this product was first introduced it was nothing else available like it on the market where consumers could watch movies at home on their own television screen. Early introduction of movie rentals begin on video cassettes which involved the purchase of other equipment so that it could be watched, such as VCR’s. Growth= The movie rental industry begin to grow when others begin to launch other retail outlets for the rental of movies. Which also contributed to a growing market of VCR owners. The market begin to get saturated with many other retailers. Maturity= Increasingly retailers where able to gain entry into the market by the 90’s. Also a new form of rental was created as DVD’s. The DVD format was created so that the movie could be read off of the form of a CD disk. Which also created a new form of equipment called the DVD player. The sale of the new version of technology allowed the market to reach it’s peak. Decline= With new avenues emerging for the way movies could be shared thru different forms, movie rental begin to decline. Thru direct shipping, kiosk rental, also monthly memberships with the capabilities of watching movies with a click of a...
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...science. Cell phones are modified forms of computers which are utilized mainly for communication that have rapidly spread through out the world in less than 20 years. Even calculation of numerical values ,storing of data and retrieval of data are possible in cell phones. According to the survey nearly 300 crores of people are using cell phone. It is estimsted by 2010 nearly 500 crores of people use cellphone having internet and camera facility. The largest cell users in the world is china, next comes to india. Alexander Graham Bell introduced telephone to a less developed society.But by the time when cell phones are invented, people are ready to accept any form of development. In a fast moving society such as our’s we cannot spare time just for walking to friends or for official purposes. Why Cell Phones considered as a boon Advantages /Multipurpose of Cell Phones * Through cell phones we can communicate with people far away while doing the necessary work and even when travelling. * If our hands aren’t free ear phones are provided through which we can talk and hear without the movement of our hands. * Cell phones can also be used for recreation. There are many games which are available in the software market. We can load them in the mobile phones. * We can even watch movies in Cell phones just like we watch one in the computer. The movies should just be loaded in to the mobile phones. * One can listen music and radio * Take beautiful photographs...
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...CCR 199 H1 S REFLECTIVE JOURNAL Technology and its impact on my life. Prathna Ramesh Technology today plays a crucial role in our daily lives, affecting nearly every activity we perform. Everyone is in constant interaction with technology in some way or the other. The most significant impact of the rapid technological development can be seen in the evolution of electronic devices like computers, mobile phones, and other gadgets. The number of people using those devices is increasing by the minute and we witness a growing dependency towards the use of such gadgets. Technology however doesn’t just refer to electronic gadgets or the internet or machines, as people nowadays tend to falsely believe. What is technology? According to the Merriam-Webster definition, ‘technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function’. People interact with interacting with various forms of technology, be it banking technology while withdrawing cash at the ATM, or educational technology while learning in high school. My daily interaction with technology is boundless. From the minute I wake up each morning to the time I go back to bed at night, technology is making my life easier and comfortable. I am able to complete tasks efficiently without time wastage. As everyone does, I use the lamps and the air conditioner in my room, the taps and showers which provide water...
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...With the emergence of cellphones, there was dramatic change in the interaction patterns among the people. Most people associate the massive usage of cellphones to young people, but even older people use cellphones majorly for interaction purposes (Hyman, 2014). In relationships, communication is being done using cellphones. It has therefore become a must have for couples. Internet The internet has revolutionized interaction by enabling people to have online conferences and relationships (Maxim, 2016). While the latter may be questionable, there are actually reported cases of people who have met online and actually ended up getting married. To be able to hold meetings online has enabled people who have international companies to work efficiently. Studying can also be done online where a teacher and a student can interact on an online platform. The internet is today used as a dating. Internet dating sites are booming businesses in recent years, especially with the over 25 age group. In busy modern life, some people find it is the best way to meet the ‘right’ people and socialize, and the irony is of course that we sit at home trying to meet these new people, maybe even that special person, without even leaving the comfort of our...
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...The Electronic Age 1. How has the Internet transformed the information gathering and dissemination? Answer: Internet has became a worldwide trend all over the world. Internet enabled the easiest and quickest access to millions of informations that history had recorded. Just few clicks, you can have every small detail of the questions in your mind. It made the world a global village. 2. Are there more advantages or disadvantages in using the internet? Justify your answer. Answer: Yes, internet has advantages and disadvantages. Some advantages are: (1)Internet made the world a global village. Anyone can access everyone around the world in the shortest period of time. (2)Anyone can access millions of information available. Students assignments can be easily answered through the use of internet. (3)Source of entertainment and socialization. Internet has a been part of the media, like the spreading of videos and songs. All people can now access a person living on different part of the world. (4)E-commerce and online services. Transactions and deals can now happen in a personal computer or cellphones. Everyone can buy items online, just sit in front of a computer and you never have to leave the house. The disadvantages of internet are the following: (1)Theft of personal information. Your personal informations are in danger like your name, phone number, and credit card number and use these informations for fraud,scam or any illegal transactions. (2)Virus threat. Virus...
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...follow our gut and focus on the goal. It is a useful motivation for university students to concentrate in class. However, sometimes thing happens by the opposite way. Difficulty concentrating is a normal and periodic occurrence for most students. Concentration problems, when present to an excessive degree, are also characteristic of certain physical and psychological conditions. Rare condition that affect the brain and some emotional problem as well as conflicts can also influence a student’s cognitive functions and thus impair concentration. The factors that influence the university students on low concentration in class are fatigue, cellphone, personal circumstances, and lack of motivation. BODY PARAGRAPH Firstly, the factor that affects students’ concentration is fatigue. Fatigue is a common, almost universal feature of modern life (Dawson, Noy, McKnight, & Nolan, 2013). Fatigue exists because of bad daily routines. As a student, it is typically to have busy lives and develop habits that make it difficult to stay energized. For example, bad eating habit can cause the students to feel sleepy during the class and it also may harm their health. The students should take healthy foods and do not skip their meals. This is important to keep them stay fit and energized. At the same time, some of the university students work part-time job to earn money. Having a part-time job may be exhausting for the students because they need to balance the time between study and work. Students...
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...Negative Impacts on Society in The Future 8 3. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF CELLPHONES 12 3.1 Lifecycle of the Cellphones 12 3.2 Cellphone Accessories 14 3.3 Energy Consumption in Internet Applications 16 4. IMPACTS OF THE MOBILE PHONE ON HUMAN HEALTH 19 4.1 Positive Impacts on Human Health in The Past 19 4.2 Negative Impacts on Human Health in the Past 19 4.3 Positive Impacts on Human Health in the Present 20 4.4 Negative Impacts on Human Health in the Present 23 4.5 Positive Impacts on Human Health in the Future 26 4.6 Negative Impacts on Human Health in the Future 27 5. CONCLUSION 28 Works Cited 29 1.INTRODUCTION Mobile phones are spreading around the world faster than prior communication technologies including the television and the internet [1]. They have been adopted faster than any other technology ever introduced to human history [2]. According to the International Communication Union (ITU), from 2005 and 2009, the number of mobile phone subscribers doubled going from 34 subscribers for every 100 inhabitants to 68, respectively. Subscriptions continue to rise questions are raised, it is important to explore the society which consumes such a technology [3]. Mobile phones went from being mere voice communication devices to a technological wonder with endless capabilities. It is becoming increasingly complex in terms of the services offered [2]. They provides the users with internet access, sensors to monitor the user’s daily routines, social networking applications...
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...Nowadays the internet has become our primary means of communication. Messages that took weeks to reach their destination now only take one minute at the most. In the case of urgent messages, telegrams that had at the most 3 sentence messages (in order to avoid a higher delivery cost) had to be relayed through trained professionals. Now you can simply send a text message free of cost from your personal phone. Most of these developments in communication technology have stemmed from one single invention: the internet. “It was the launch of Sputnik by the USSR that spurred the U.S to create the agency which became known as DARPA in February 1958 with the idea of regaining a technological lead over the USSR. (…) As a first step they aimed to connect computers at the Pentagon, Cheyenne Mountain and Strategic Air Command Headquarters (SAC). (..) The funding of a new U.S. backbone by the National Science Foundation in the 1980s, as well as private funding for other commercial backbones, led to worldwide participation in the project and the merger of many networks. The commercialization of what was by the 1990s an international network resulted in its popularization and incorporation into virtually every aspect of modern human life. Today, more than a quarter of the world’s population uses the Internet.” (DENNING, 2013). With the invention of the internet, communication became increasingly simpler, faster and more effective. Several internet based programmes allow the enhacement of...
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...Reach Leader the job description is to run scout meetings, plan advancement opportunities for boy scouts, teach boy scouts valuable life lesson and teach boy scouts about S.T.E.M (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). Through a full day of work technology evolves all around us without us even knowing that we use it. The idea of Scout Reach is to be able to reach out to those kids who don’t have the opportunity to have all the glamourous things in life. Instead Scout Reach gives these boys some hope, companionship, and involvement with their community. Within Scout Reach there are numerous things that need to...
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...things around as if it were wallet or an accessary. Some people even feel awkward or uncomfortable without there phone. This piece of technology is especially popular in a high-tech country like Korea. In Korea you can see many people in the streets, on buses and on trains with smart phones. People use phones for making calls, web surfing, taking pictures, and more. This technology that has grown into a necessity for life is very useful, but I want to talk about 3 major defects of using cellular phones. The first defect that I would like to talk about is cellular phones are replacing our act of thinking. Because the widespread and advancement of cell phones, people are thinking less. For example, before cell phones became popular people memorized phone numbers and email addresses. Nowadays, we just insert this data into our phones and make calls with just a push of a button. Another factor leading to people thinking less is easy access to the Internet. In the days when phones only had purpose of making calls, if you wanted to lookup or search for information you would have to go to a facility or place where access to a computer is available. However, currently because of advanced cell phones we can get access to the internet anywhere. Because of this, instead of thinking people tend to just go on the internet and find what there looking for. The second defect is the use of cellphones is causing less interaction between individuals. In recent years mobile phones have advanced even...
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...especially the younger generation which include students in schools. Technology has advanced beyond our wildest dreams in the past years. Schools have always struggled with the issue of making policies to control the latest and greatest technology used by students. Years ago schools struggled with pagers or beepers because they had a stigma of being linked to drug activity. Then the cell phone came on the scene and schools were overwhelmed with the task of trying to control the use of cell phones by students. Today, cell phones and other devices are used by millions of people across the country. Cell Phone technology has advanced to the point where they have the functions and capacity of a computer, allowing students and adults to access the internet, music, take pictures, send messages, etc. A controversy has arisen of whether educators and administrators should embrace cell phone technology and create lessons using the cell phone or continue to restrict use of cell phones during school hours. This has been the major issue towards adapting the new phase of education scheme or either to stick to what is usual way of teaching. And whether it has affect the academic structure more of advantages or just pulling it down to a lower quality of education. Modern technology has become an integral part of human. In the existence of these gadgets, further features are added very rapidly across the needs and wants of the users. From educational...
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...human race has managed to discover more ways to do things faster and easier, and to make their life simpler. The object of this research is to persuade and to inform the general public interested in technological impacts and the negative effects it has brought to those who over use it and also to catch, as a desired audience, that part of society blind to such gravity. Even though these new inventions have indeed given us the ease to have almost everything one click or touch away, a dependence on these advances has been developed by their take over, and therefore a harmlessness and ignorance to the possibility of living without it affecting social communication, education, and society’s behavior. SOCIAL COMMUNICATION Just a couple of decades ago, meeting a friend at a café or asking another person for a dance, were two of the most common ways to socialize and to get to know others. In the present, it does not usually happen. Social networks, apps, and date-finding websites have substituted that habit, and now we communicate through machines. In her article, “An Ugly Toll of Technology: Impatience and Forgetfulness”, from The New York Times Digital Edition, author Tara Parker wrote that “Typically the concern about our dependence on technology is that it distracts from our time with family and friends in the real world” (2) because some might pay more attention to their cellphones or other devices than to the actual...
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...The effects of cellphones in the classroom Table of Contents Abstract 4 Keywords 4 1. Section 1 Research Paper 5 1.1. Sub Heading 1 5 1.2. References 10 2. Methodology 11 2.1. Introduction 11 2.2. Conclusion 15 References 16 Abstract With today’s technology advancing at a rapid rate, mobile phones have become such an integral part of our lives. It has become the fastest growing communication channel amongst students as students use them not only at home but also in the classroom. The use of mobile phones by students in the classroom has naturally become a hotly debated topic. Most educators are against the use of cell phones in the classroom as they feel it just serves as a distraction. There is however many that feel mobile phones in schools can be beneficial in many ways. This paper will explore the positive side of having mobile phones in school as well the negative side. It will explore the educational benefits mobile phones have as well as the various problems that come with using it in the classroom. Keywords: Cell phones, students, classroom, benefits, problems 1. Section 1: Cell phone usage in the classroom: Good or Bad? 1. Introduction Technology has evolved so quickly has become so much more open and seems to be everywhere in our lives these days and has made our existence in this busy world much so much simpler. The assorted applications...
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...Ask yourself, “How would I survive without technology?” What would you do when you got bored? Is technology something you are willing to give up? “A recent survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows cellphones are an essential part of 83 percent of Americans' lives, used to retrieve information immediately, to relieve boredom or to help in emergencies” (Chansanchai). One might argue, who wouldn’t want to have technology in their lives? It’s wonderful and enables us to keep thinking and creating. But, has it come to a point where we rely on it? The electronics that we have is an amazing invention. It allows us to receive information at the touch of a fingertip. We use it to stay connected to the world by sharing thoughts,...
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...time a company announces a release of their latest device. Cellphones alone developed tremendously and increased in usage this past decade. These new cellphones are opening a door to communication like never before. According to the Nielsen 2010 Media Industry Fact Sheet there are over 223 million U.S. mobile phone users over the age of 13. More than 26% of households in the U.S. have only a wireless phone (Snider, 2011). As consumers continue to move to wireless, states are passing, or considering, laws to end the requirement that phone companies provide everyone landline service (Sylvain, 2012). The enormous increase in wire-less technology is pushing landline phones into obsolesce. According to Gebeloff (2011), nearly 40 percent of all adults living in poverty use only cellphones, compared with about 21 percent of adults with higher incomes who use both cellphones and landlines. Cellphones have become more affordable, thus households in poverty, instead of having only landlines, switched to having cellphones only. Also, forty-seven percent of house renters were wireless-only, compared with 15 percent of owners. Another factor is age. The older generation has a higher need for landlines, while the younger generation got so used to cellphones that when they move out of their parent’s house, they see no need to get a landline of their own. The younger generation of Americans is growing up in a society where cellphones, laptops, and Wi-Fi are as abundant as bread and water. This...
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