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Carolyn Wehner CEE 1440 Water Resources Engineering Take-Home Final Exam Due: 12/14/16 Introduction: With changing climates, ice caps melting more rapidly therefore causing the water levels of the world to rise rapidly. With this increase of fluid water on the earth water resources engineers are concerned how the excess water will affect infrastructure pertaining to water designs such as dams and reservoirs. Also future engineering designs will have to consider the change in water levels and…

Beats Products Beats is a producer of audio equipment. It focuses on three segments in audio equipment. Personal audio (headphones, earphones and speakers), Beats audio (audio software with tailored hardware in collaboration with other companies like Chrysler and HP) and Beats Music (online music streaming service, currently still in development). Beats Electronics started to sell headphones in 2006 and is therefore a relatively new competitor on the high-end audio-system market. Beats by Dr.…

How the Samsung Smartphones changed the world Nowadays, smartphones have become part of people’s day to day lives and have impacted all aspects of life. From Board rooms of companies to kitchens in family homes, they can be found mostly everywhere with almost everyone. From construction workers working on a building viewing blueprints to doctors viewing patient files or even parents using it to quieten their children at restaurants (Kelly, 2012). Till 2013 approximately 967.78 million…

Disconnected Urbanism by Paul Goldberger argues cell phone usage initiates the isolation between the reality of society’s surroundings and presence by insisting that calling or texting someone diminishes the importance of culture and place. Goldberger states, “You are there, but you are not there,” which means cell phones demolish a person's potential to experience complete urbanism in a precise location, but instead transports individuals to another realm. His entire argument on phones is based…

With the new development in the calling devices, people started to spend more time on their phones. Recently the smartphones are taking a huge part of the people lives. This created a new type of addictions, which is the addition to the smartphones. This addiction is all about spending most of the time in the day using the phone, without having control on that. The addition of the smartphones is similar to other types of addictions such as the addiction to smoking and the addiction of coffee.…

Mobile phone tracking submits to the ascertaining of the position of a mobile phone whether stationary or moving. Mobile phone tracking was a recent technological advancement made in the past couple of years. Mobile positioning plays a significant role since it discloses the actual coordination of a mobile phone bearer. The location-based services that are enhanced by technology through telecommunication companies approximate the location of a mobile phone in an efficient as well as effective…

Introduction The following analysis will analyze the cell phone industry with a focus in the smart phone industry which has been at a steady growth since the early 2000s. This analysis will cover the markets served, the industry demographics, and the historical perspective on the smart phone industry. With the cell phone industry being one of the fastest growing industries in the world, a large market share is available for different competitors to compete with one or another. Products Offered…

As people use smartphones more and more it is crucial that the smartphone keeps being safe. Important is to distinguish the ways security could be compromised. iOS jailbreaks for example, are bad for third party app developers and Apple since it enables users to download apps for free. However, in this chapter we will look for the security issues that are bad for the user, not for the companies. As there is a restriction as to how much we can cover here, we will only cover some the most…

Introduction A smart phone is a mobile cellular device which offers advanced technologies with functionality similar as a personal computer. While offering a regiment platform for application developers a smart phone performs as complete operating system software. Secondly, there are also very advanced features in smart phones such as internet, instant messenger and e-mail and also built-in keyboard are very typical. Because of these reasons we can say a smartphone is a miniature computer with…

Introduction: The advancement in the internet technologies (2G, 3G) as well as the mobile communication industry along with the increasing popularity of mobile communication devices such as smart phones, tablets, net books and laptops, has led to the emergence of mobile commerce as an alternative business model. Mobile phone today is considered as a lifestyle device and not just a tool to connect (Thakur & Srivastava, 2012). Its functionality has gone far beyond the function of merely connecting…