car accidents from being distracted while driving, says the government. (Copeland) The lives of innocent people are being taken every day due to a simple distraction. Car crashes are four times more common to take place while the driver is on their mobile device over any other causes. (Mulgrew) Different states have particular views on the laws put into effect about texting while driving. The state of Utah has a law established stating that if a driver is
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That is because these social networking websites are so addictive. According to Liberty Voice, Social Media Addiction their statistics state that Facebook has 850 million active users, and 488 million of those people use Facebook regularly on their mobile device. 178 million tweets were sent from Twitter every day. Thirty-two percent of all Internet users use Twitter.1 out of 8 Americans are a social media addict. (LibertyVoice)
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Pinkberry drives in-store product launch trial via mobile advertising Frozen yogurt chain Pinkberry launched a location-based ad campaign that served up mobile coupons to lure nearby consumers into stores in April. The ads ran within the Pandora iPhone app with creative that showed consumers how many miles away they were from a Pinkberry location. When clicked on, a landing page presented an offer for $1 off of a greek yogurt product. The landing page also included directions and a click-to-call
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Apple Inc. (“Apple”) as a market leader in the technology industry remains appealing to its loyal fan consumers despite the death of Steve Jobs. The fact that Steve Jobs rescued Apple from the verge of collapse has actually made him a spiritual leader of Apple and part of Apple’s product attributes. The return of Jobs to Apple in 1997 marked the successful execution in the company. He stopped licensing program, moved manufacturing to abroad and the most courageous move was to move the products into
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Distracted driving: Stay focused when on the road 1. Teddi Dineley Johnson It’s 8 a.m., and you jump in your car to drive to work. You have every intention of driving safely, but within minutes of merging onto the highway you’ve already checked your makeup in the mirror, fiddled with your car’s radio, programmed your GPS for a meeting location, made two calls on your cellphone and sent a text message to your sister. You might not realize it, but you’re a distracted driver. Each time you take your
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Wireless headset translator Two sources that were used in order to come up with our new invention were the ITA database and UNWTO (world tourism organization network). Taking a look at these sources, we found that the rate of tourism increases each year. To take advantage of this growing market, we came up with a new invention, which allows consumers to use it if ever they cannot speak the language of the foreign country there currently in. These sources made us realize how much money goes into
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Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving Day on which people find a huge number of offers and deals on different products particularly technology related products such as electronics and toys. However, there are also a good number of other products such as clothes, home goods and miscellaneous items. There is a huge crowd of people, who come to purchase those items, which they require at decreased price. This day is economically beneficial for the country and financially helps many retailers and
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Mobile Systems is a pioneer in multi-device, cross-platform mobile application development and a leading provider of personal productivity software for smartphones. Mobile Systems award-winning mobile software OfficeSuite Professional for Android is a complete feature-rich mobile office solution, allowing users to create, view and edit Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint files and attachments, as well as to view PDF files on Android based smartphone devices. Since 2001 Mobile Systems is a pioneer
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ocial networking websites like Facebook, twitter, MySpace, youtube and etc. are very much common among youth. Social media has several impacts on students and their academic work as Students use social media websites for discussion and for study purposes. Social media has become a vital part in modern society. Social media is becoming increasingly important for this era, because of increasing global outreach potential offered by the internet. Students can contact, address and influence many other
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I am going to explain below how. There are a number of ways how organisations can improve the way they operate ethically and I will be assessing how a large organisation such as Dial-a-Phone can function more ethically. Dial-a-phone is national mobile phone provider who are owned by the even bigger company Phones 4U. Organisations are often scrutinised for not operating more ethically, and it is important that organisations act on this criticism. From a customer’s point of view, people often take
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