Bell Telephone Company

information. If she didn’t use the telephone when she was younger, the only other way to spread information was by mail or word of mouth. Today, the speed of life is much faster. She claims that she “can barely keep up with all the changes.” It amazes my grandma how every day there is a new way to communicate. First, direct phone lines, then car phones, then cell phones, then email, then text messaging, and finally Skype. She asks, “what’s wrong with picking up the telephone and just talking to…

From horse drawn carriages to automobile to tanks and armored cars. The story of American history can be seen through the technological advancements and changes made from 1870’s through 1970’s. There are been hundred of thousands of new technological changes throughout history. Not every advancement changed or made history, but many did. These technological changes influenced every aspect of daily life in America. Technological changes revolutionized the way of life for Americans because it…

action that has caused the customer unnecessary aggravation (however mild). It also includes repeat or chase calls by the customer to the company. This is determined by the subject matter of the call. 2.2 Aim To measure the number of phone contacts to the company that, from the customer’s perspective, are the result of a service failure by the company. Companies receive different sorts of phone contact. Some of these can be defined as ‘wanted’ from the customer’s…

implemented to help create learning experiences for early childhood students (Walker, 2015 pp. 35-37). An artefact needs to engage students, allowing them to investigate and explore while assisting them to connect with the world around them. The ‘Rotary Telephone’ is a wonderful early childhood artefact as it is hands on and allows students to…

Technology is exponentially progressing each day. From cell phones to rovers that tread the desolate surface of mars, technology continues to be essential to first-world daily life. No matter where you go, there is always someone talking on the phone, texting, playing games, or watching videos. While communication technology started out as a miracle to convenience and a host to instant data access, it is now stealing time and potential memories, erasing face-to-face communication, and causing…

Public speaking had always been a struggle for me. Working as a hostess for a restaurant requires taking phone calls and engaging in conversations with customers. Knowing I had to take their order by phone made me a bit anxious at first. It is something scary to do, but it is also very simple with practice. In order to complete a successful phone call order, one has to answer the phone and greet the customer, ask for their contact information and location, take the customer’s order, ask for…

Amy Jo Martin made an interesting comment about social media. “Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand.” (Martin, Web) This is the age of technology and social media. People all over the world can connect and help each other via social media. There are two different views as to how social media affects us.…

Thanks to better cameras in mobile devices, video chat software on laptops and desktops went mobile with Apple?s extremely popular FaceTime app for iPhones in 2011. It took Google more than five years, but the tech giant finally countered with Google Duo in August 2016. Which is better? Here?s a look at the features of both and how they stack up. Apple?s FaceTime FaceTime works on any iOS device. When it first came out in 2011, it blew any other competing apps away when it came to getting…

Unpleasant, imposing, detached, all of these are what a phone call represents now a day’s, or that’s at least what Sherry Turkle is trying to prove. Along with her argument that texting is leading people to lose valuable social skills and to become more emotionally detached from each other. Turkle utilizes large amounts of pathos to portray the damaging effects texting has on different people. Elaine is one of the teenagers that Turkle interviews, about the effects texting has on people. Elaine…

The wind was blowing and the clouds were starting to become darker and heavier, we knew a storm was coming. It was a typical summer thunderstorm, so nothing was out of the ordinary. My dad was driving my brother, Justin, and I to the dentist because my mom was at work and we could see the clouds becoming lower and lower. It was only a matter of minutes before it down poured. We made it to the dentist and we were the only one’s there, we were the last patients of the day. Everything was smooth…