...Cell phones How have they changed us socially? A mobile phone (also known as a cellular phone, cell phone, and a hand phone) is a device that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile phone operator, allowing access to the public telephone network. By contrast, a cordless telephone is used only within the short range of a single, private base station. In addition to telephony, modern mobile phones also support a wide variety of other services such as text messaging, MMS, email, Internet access, short-range wireless communications (infrared, Bluetooth), business applications, gaming and photography. Mobile phones that offer these and more general computing capabilities are referred to as smartphones. The first hand-held mobile phone was demonstrated by John F. Mitchell[1][2] and Dr Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973, using a handset weighing around 2.2 pounds (1 kg).[3] In 1983, the DynaTAC 8000x was the first to be commercially available. From 1990 to 2011, worldwide mobile phone subscriptions grew from 12.4 million to over 6 billion, penetrating about 87% of the global population and reaching the bottom of the economic pyramid.[4][5][6][7] Before the devices that are now referred to as mobile phones existed, there were some precursors. The development of mobile telephony began in 1918 with tests of wireless telephony on military trains between Berlin...
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...Cell phone – The incredible invention The invention of something touch every aspect of our lives nowadays. Such devices changed the way we manage, work, and live. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business over the world. This incredible invention is the mobile phone. Nowadays, almost everyone has cell phones. It makes communication faster and easier. You can just dial a person’s number and you are talking to them. You can be anywhere and doing anything and yet you can confirm a meeting to business partner, instruct your secretary to do some paperwork or whisper sweet nothings to your loved ones. Cell phones take the need of physically being with the person to be able to connect to them. But exactly how did these gadgets come about? Like any gadget, cell phones evolved over time, and each stage was very interesting. It keeps up with the ongoing changes and demands of the people who use it. The real story started with radio technology. These were used to communicate and are linked on a central data base. The first official cell phone was used by the Swedish police. This was in 1946. They did it by connecting a handheld phone to the telephone network. It was quite similar to the two way radio. During that decade, cell phones were simply not practical. People can make six phone calls and the battery was already dead. The electronics used in cell phones that we see now were first developed in the 1960s. During this time, the technology...
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...The five most important technological advances in Electronic Communication are the telegraph, the telephone, radio/TV, the internet, and cell phones. 1. The telegraph (in my opinion) is by far the most important electronic communications development in our history. For millennia societies have communicated over long distances strictly using the physical environment; smoke screens, reflected light, pyres, etc., have been used long before electric technology was introduced. While effective, the physical environment can only “reach” so far; the electric telegraph enabled entire regions, countries, and governments to connect instantly. The ability to send messages- or simply communicate- via electric wires was undoubtedly the fastest leap communications has ever seen; in a matter of decades the world was covered in wires. The telegraph enabled globalization, better government communications, and a widespread need to speak to one another. While the telegraph is somewhat obsolete today, the invention opened the door to the telephone, the radio, and (quite literally) laid the foundation of all electric communications. http://classroom.synonym.com/significance-samuel-morse-inventing-telegraph-10183.html http://history1800s.about.com/od/inventioninnovation/a/telegraph01.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraphy 2. The second most important electronic development would be the telephone. Founded on the same ideas as the telegraph, the telephone enabled people to literally “send”...
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...Cycle framework A framework is how we think about a process. Within the context of this class this framework focuses on how we interact with computers in the scope of the process or project. Since the first business started in our earliest history stakeholders have looked for ways to improve and be more successful. Since the invention of computers people have been looking at ways to have these devices help improve this process. The Execution/Evaluation Action Cycle (EEAC) was presented by Donald Norman in 1988. His concepts explored the nature of how actions can be structured into four basic parts (Heim, 2007, p. 42): Example of how the chosen framework might actually work When starting any large scale project a team of stakeholders typically start off with an end goal. With tools such as Microsoft Project and others each stage of the frame work can be mapped out and help keep the project on task. How it fits each part of the framework One important point is that this framework is a cyclical process that in truth does not have an end point until the stakeholders have reached a point where they are satisfied with the results and can be revisited at a later point. Goal During the goal stage stakeholders can all make sure they are on the right page. Execution When the project reaches the execution phase team members will have a clear goal in mind as they make things happen. World As the project produces actual results in the real world stake holders can see results...
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...business dictionary (2012), mass media is “non-personal channels of broadcasting a message to the general public, principally the national newspapers, radio, and television.” In other words, mass media can be defined as a medium used for addressing or communicating to the masses. Anything that serves the source for communication amongst a large audience is included in the category of mass media. Mass media is a broad term under which includes everything or anything that conveys a message to the masses is included. From newspapers to books, from radios to televisions, from the mobile phones to ipods and to the internet, all these mediums are included in the category of mass media. Large audiences use mass media for the following basic purposes: to get news and information, for entertainment i.e. music, movies, sports and drama, and for communicating with other people. Many people around the world rely on the mass media for news and entertainment, and globally, mass media is a huge industry. Reference Business dictionary. (2012) Mass media definition. Received from website http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/mass-media.html 2. What are the different types of mass media? The different types of mass media are publishing, broadcasting, and electronic. The publishing media is the oldest form of mass media. This media includes books, newspapers and magazine. The publishing and printing media is the only source of mass communication...
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...send a message across great distances. Many people had learned Morse code to be able to| | |deliver these messages as a telegram. After Morse code was the telephone. The telephone | | |made it even easier to call someone and talk to them instead of waiting for an answer via | | |telegram (Morse code) or by letter. This later led to the creation of cell phones. Before | | |the invention of the television there was the radio. This was one of the main forms of | | |entertainment. There was music that played on the radio but it was mainly talk shows and | | |stores that were read over the radio. Newspapers have been around for a long time, they | | |were the only way to communicate with the community as a whole. Television is what changed| | |everything. At first the television was black and white and not owned by the larger | | |public, only those with money could afford the technology. Once it became affordable for | |...
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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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...but did not take hardly any business from them but the films that were being made were advertised in them. Radios was the next big media that came about in the 1920’s was radian and it was a great media technology for advertisers and people listened to it. The sound recording made in the 190’s- 1990’s were a new media also. Then are the introduction of TV in the 1940’s to present, I think it will never end but its size has got smaller on width and flat and larger in length. Video recorders started coming about in the 1970’s to present and have become smaller since its advent and are not as cumbersome as they once were. The video games also came along side the 1970’s and are still popular today. Computers first appeared in the mainframe forms in the 40’s and 50’s in then started to decrease in size from the 80’s to present. In the 90’s they were sold as desktops and in the 2000’s to present they are laptops and iPads. The biggest change to affect everything was the internet which started in the 90’s to present and is threatening to change everything. Cell phones also have impacted life too. When films came around in the early 1900’s it was going to create a new way of viewing things and created movie theaters for entertainment and also created...
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...modern ages have brought about some of the worlds greatest inventions. The cars we drive, the cell phones we talk on, and many of the appliances in our homes. However, the consequences for these inventions and many others could lead to our eventual death. Several things can be done to halt and eventually reverse our impact on the planet. First, the respective leaders from the majority of nations need to agree on a set of standards they pledge for their country. Secondly, Americans need to have higher miles per gallon (mpg) vehicles. Lastly, the government needs to set a standard for energy-efficiency across America. The earth isn’t in danger now but if we don’t, unilaterally, choose to change our methods it very well could be for our children. The governments of the world were called together to sign the Kyoto Treaty and most chose to, but America is the final remaining industrialized nation that chose not to sign. One of the main reasons President Bush has chosen against singing is that it didn’t require China or India to meet the standards. Here’s a quote from President Bush on the Kyoto Treaty, "Kyoto would have wrecked our economy. I couldn't in good faith have signed Kyoto, Bush said, noting that the treaty didn't require other "big polluters" such as India and China to cut emissions.” It was agreed upon in 1997 and the environment has changed since then and the standards need to be raised to catch up. The leaders of the world need to take initiative because the environment...
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...largest technology manufacture's in the world? This company is known creations, design, media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, etc... Its products include IPhone, IPad, IPod, Mac, Apple TV, A portfolio of consumer and personal software application, the IOS and OSX operating system, ICloud and accessions. This company also sells and deliver digital contents and application through the ITunes store, Apple store, IBook store and the Mac App store. Apple sells product worldwide through its retail store. The company was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne on April 1, 1976 and it is headquartered in Cupertino CA. Apple is worth $672.0 B . But getting there did not just happen, Apples strategy to them the where they’re right now. "Generally in war, the best policy is to take a state intact: to ruin it is inferior to this ....for to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not to acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skills." Sun Tzu The quote above in relation to business is saying that since the goal of business is to survive and prosper, you must capture the market but not in a way that may destroy it. When I say destroy it I mean not in a way where you change the market until people won't recognize it for what it is. Apple is a company that has taken Sun Tzu strategy and has somehow made it into a company. Before Apple reinvented the phone, they're were cell phones that were already hot in the game...
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...From the Light Bulb to the Cell Phone: How African-Americans Have Shaped Technology By Mylia Belton Throughout history, African-Americans have shown to be true innovators in the field of technology. Since the late 1800s, these mostly unsung heroes have broken barriers and opened pathways for future African-Americans in technology. There is a seemingly endless list of accomplishments in this field to go through, but I will introduce you to a few of the men and women, some of whom you may already know, who have made amazing break-throughs. Shaping the world of technology as we know it today. First, let’s talk about why technology is so important. Technology, as defined in Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, is the practical application...
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...YE AR S CE L EB RA TIN G6 HISTORY HISTORY A World Transformed II: World in Flux E D I TOR PW AA -TA ST IC Y EA R S! RESOURCE Tania Asnes A L PACA-IN-CHIEF 2 0 1 2 Daniel Berdichevsky the World Scholar’s Cup® ® HISTORY | 1 History Resource 2012: A World in Flux Table of Contents Preface: A Swiftly Texting Planet ................................................................. 2 I. The Determinators....................................................................................... 4 Toward a model for technological change............................................. 5 I’m on Team IDUAR ................................................................................ 6 Disruptive technologies..............................................................................8 Classic Technologies ...................................................................................9 The time of wheels ..................................................................................9 How the stirrup stirred things up ......................................................10 Print all about it: the printing press ................................................... 11 II. Transformations in Everyday Life .......................................................... 13 Turning on the lights ................................................................................. 13 Picking up the telephone .......................................
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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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...Kelcie Jeffries Money & Banking Mr. Foster March 8, 2014 How Technology has changed the Banking World over Time The ATM “In 1939, Luther Simjian patented an early and not-so-successful prototype of an ATM. However, some experts have the opinion that James Goodfellow of Scotland holds the earliest patent date of 1966 for a modern ATM, and John D White in the US is often credited with inventing the first free-standing ATM design. In 1967, John Shepherd-Barron invented and installed an ATM in a Barclays Bank in London. Don Wetzel invented an American made ATM in 1968. However, it wasn't until the mid to late 1980s that ATMs became part of mainstream banking” (Bellis). Although we can see that it is not clear on who invented the ATM, I think they all played an important role in developing what we have in today’s world. Don Wetzel was the most recent with installing one of the first ATMs in American and him and two other men invented what we know as today as the ATM card. The ATM made its first showcase on the outside at the Rockville Center, New York Chemical Bank. Also, another interesting fact I learned about this first ATM was that it only gave you cash it did not tell you your balance or let you transfer funds like we can at today’s ATM. “The ATM we know today was later installed and invented in 1971 and was called the total teller” (Bellis). During this era not every customer could have the right to an ATM card, banks would only let credit card holders have access...
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...Technology – Boon or Bane? Posted on August 25, 2011by Sumukh Naik Technology is one of the greatest invention of mankind.It is so powerful that it shapes our thinking and our way of life within no time.It is ever evolving.Technology is a tool invented and sharpened by humans to make their life easier.Those who know the correct application of technology, be it any sphere of activity, have managed to make lives easier for themselves and to some extent also for others. I feel the best technological breakthrough was the invention of computers which basically led to further advancement in technology viz the creation of many softwares and hardware. Technology has gifted mankind with various boons but look closely and you will realise that technology have blessed mankind with two very important aspects – facility of communication and creation of time. Creation of phone, fax, paging services, mobile services, video conferencing etc are few of the facilities that the human mind has been able to conceive with the aid of technology.All have played a very important part in making the world a ‘Global Village’. Technology has ensured that one can easily communicate with anyone on land, in air(aeroplanes) or even when the person is under the calm waves of dark deep-sea (submarines). But the Time Creation aspect of technology has now posed a challenge and threat which very few had ever thought of. Computers – They have evolved rapidly at the rate of knots. A few decades ago, a single...
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