Executive assistant

Isn’t it amazing, the entirety of human knowledge is accessible through a single device, small enough to fit into our pockets? Yet most of us use it to send tweets, text our friends, play games, and sometimes to avoid conversation. The device I’m referring to is none other than a smart phone. A smart phone is a mobile device with advanced features. It has a high-resolution touch screen display, WIFI connectivity, web browsing capabilities, and the ability to run sophisticated…

“Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create” (Howard Rheingold). The first device that allowed long distance voice communication was the Telephone invented in 1876 by Alexander Bell and Elisha Gray. This was the start to voice communication and lead the way for phones to come which soon became mobile. The first mobile…

Unlike most people I hear that are in health science, I have not always known that I desired to be in the health science field. This may sound strange since I am applying to a health science school, but I now know that this is what I am most passionate about. When I started high school, we were presented with many PowerPoint’s, slideshows, and quizzes about what we should do when we got out of high school. Even with all these materials, I still was not sure about what I truly wanted to do. This…

Smart Phones in School: A Teaching Tool or a Distraction? Smart phones have become the “norm” in our society. Almost everyone has a smart phone, more commonly a smart phone. Smart phones allow users to access vast amounts of information right at one’s fingertips. Smart phones also allow the user to communicate instantaneously with their closest friends and loved ones through calling, text messaging, and various forms of social media. Smart phones have become a part of our daily lives and…

to travel the world not go back to school right after finishing twelve years of it. The second, as I got older I realized there is not much in the world if you don’t have a degree. Right out of High School I did a six week Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) certificate course. I had spent a lot of time volunteering at hospitals and working in a nursing home and although I loved being able to help I wanted more. With my certificate I was able to love and…

Well that doesn’t always say that you give the best care. There could be a doctor that of course has his PhD but the physician assistant that is underneath him gives better care simply because they show more compassion. Compassion is so imporanti n health care. You deal with so many patients going through tons of different things. If I have a patient at my desk crying because they…

The Impact of Smartphones The advent of the smartphone has allowed people to easily access the Internet from anywhere at any time. When smartphones were originally developed and released on the mass market, this was their main appeal. However, a smartphone essentially acts as a mobile computer and allows for software to be developed for them. The ability for these devices to access the Internet, often using the applications developed for them, has had an impact on how communication occurs…

Location Based Advertising Overview Also referred to as hyper-local advertising, location based advertising, is a form of advertising that uses the real world position of a consumer. Once the position of the consumer is identified, relevant ads in terms of services and products, close to the consumer are then delivered. Most people share out data through the various apps installed on their smartphones. According to a recent study conducted by IAB, location advertising has huge potential going…

Domesticating New Media: A Discussion on Locating Mobile Media The extract from domesticating new media: a discussion on locating mobile media by Larissa Hjorth, compares mobile media technologies to a Swiss army knife, primarily because of their multiplicity of uses. Over the last twenty years or so mobile phones have been constantly changing, through the mediated and remediated methodologies that Hjorth believes are the most relevant to the study of mobile devices. The mobile phones in the…

It has been about two decades since the world`s first smartphone was introduced to the general public. Since then the smartphone has been a part of life among most people in the world. Online statistics show that more than one billion smartphones have been sold and are being currently used by people across the globe which may even be more in number due to un-registered number of smartphones sold in the black market. Smartphone operating platforms have innumerable number of applications which…