Digital footprint

Research In Motion, the original name for the BlackBerry, was founded in 1984. Mike Lazaridis was an engineering student from the University of Waterloo and Douglas Fregin was an engineering student from the University of Windsor and together they found Research In Motion (RIM). When they released the first BlackBerry in 1999, it was a PDA with a paging function. It wasn’t until 2003 that they released the first BlackBerry smartphone, which supports email, mobile telephone, text messaging,…

at any given point, we no longer have to communicate with those who make up our local society. Smartphones have created a scenario in which our personal society consists of people scattered far and wide, people who we may rarely see outside of the digital realm. As any communications textbook can tell you, face to face communications, identifying with a community, and physical touch are all a vital part of what creates our sense of self. Losing these ties to our physical communities can be…

As you already know there is a wide range of online money making methods available out there. Writing eBooks and selling them online is one way to create an income stream that keeps on giving. This article explains hot to write and publish an Ebook. The huge rise in popularity of the Kindle and the iPad, and the wide availability of free eBook reader apps for smartphones has increased the demand for eBooks dramatically. You can make a significant amount of money writing eBooks and the…

Introduction Mobile devices become more and more important in our lives. Actually, it become global trend to have smartphone. Mobile programming following smartphone movement become one of the most innovative programming. Almost any customer nowadays asking programmers to make for them website that support mobile devices. Statistic also in past few years show that mobile browsing is becoming more popular than desktop PCs or laptops. How important that can be for programmers and how they…

When the eyes are focused down on the phone, they have to be taken off the road. This leaves plenty of time for the driver to swerve off course just enough to hit a pedestrian, or fail to take notice to a red light or approaching car. This distracted driver could hit an innocent bystander walking down the side walk, run a red light and cause an accident, or slam into the back of another car because another (more attentive driver) stopped at the red light. The differing situations go on and on,…

When it comes to texting while driving, only about 1 out of 5 young drivers think that texting makes no difference to their driving performance. The issue concern addressed here is not that mobile devices have become this great widespread readily available communication tooltool, but the consequences that it causes because of the lack of common sense of its use. The primary concern is the results of the use of this device while driving. In 2011, 3,333 people were killed as a result of…

educators take advantage of this technology to bring into pedagogy. There are many applications based on smartphones that help the teaching and learning process become more efficient at school. For instance, the "StraightAce Learning" application is a digital learning system for middle school students. It focuses on Mathematics and English concepts, which help students prepare for high school and beyond (Rivero 10). However, children should only be allowed to use smartphones in schools for…

Introduction: User interfaces are an integral part of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) process. It is not just the computer that opts for an efficient interface but most of the machines have their own interface where a human should be able to give a command to the machine ("Introducing User Interface Design," no date). As stated in the article (Marcus & Gould, 2000) it has been widely approved that a good user interface is necessary for the better execution and request to the user. The user…

Introduction/Background -What is the nature of the product or technology? The nature of 3d printing is nearly any area you can think of applying it to. -What is its development history? Rapid prototyping came about in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ‘Rapid prototyping ‘paved the road for all the 3d printing companies out today. (Rapid prototyping created prototypes for a manufacturer to create a prototype of a product with plastics before executing their plans and mass producing them from…

SMARTPHONE Smartphone is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century. With the help of this amazing electronic equipment, we can do various tasks at the same time. Smartphone has become a necessity for everyone and living in the present technological world, most of us own one. Besides the irrefutable positive impacts of it, smartphone still has some adverse effects on people’s lives. Have you ever taken time to think about its influence on society and how to use this technology…