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Smart phone is a mobile phone with advanced software function (Pitichat, 2013). It has become one of the most popular and essential communication technology for personal and work use of people’s daily life. This is because it provides very advanced facilities for users such as: internet camera applications, sending e-mail, Bluetooth, playing games, YouTube, and television (Pitichat 2013).There are varieties of smartphones such as iPhone, Blackberry and Android. They are small in size, portable…

Advances in cell phone technology can save time and help people stay in close contact with one another. Cellphones were originally marketed mainly to business executives as car phones, but their use in the car has become a matter for public concern and debate. Statistics shows that texting while driving has increased over the last decade, as the annual total of text messages surged from 57 billion in 2005 to 1.8 trillion in 2010. Research done by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute shows…

users aren 't even aware that no state or federal laws stops the collection and sharing of phone data. Service providers usually collect data, and never really tell their customers why they are collecting data. Major Smartphone providers such as T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon and other smartphone providers have data retention policies. Which means that users can 't really do anything to stop smartphone providers from collecting data from their phones. On the other hand, most smartphone user should be…

“The average person spends 97 minutes a day texting, 118 minutes searching the Internet, 41 minutes on Facebook, 49 minutes e-mailing, and 51 minutes talking on their cell phone” (Junco & Cotton 2012). The accessibility to information and communication justifies the amount of time people are spending on their phones to a certain extent. Individuals with regular cell phones do not have an easy access to Internet and social media; the statistics involving smart phones are more relevant to this…

Although laws have been passed to prevent drivers from texting, the people look over them and continue to put themselves at risk for accidents. In the article “driving us to distraction” written by Gilbert Cruz, the senior editor at TIME.com, writes that a national survey from 2008 revealed that approximately 63% of drivers planned to follow through with laws against using cell phones while driving (Par 8). Drivers very clearly are distracted while using their cell phones. The use of cell…

Information Overload The internet has become a global resource for all things. It is now commonplace as we use it everyday. We are wholly reliant on it for social networking, communication, directions, news source, marketing, entertainment and the list continues. The internet holds the answers to everything that we want to know. But what cost is this having on the way that we think and recall information on our own? Is the internet actually making us mindless? Even though the internet may…

A New iEra On The Way I was born in the late 90’s, where technology wasn’t that important in my life growing up. Yes, there was cell phones, television, dial-up, and computers. Today, all those items have evolved into smart-phones, smart-TV, high speed internet, and tablets; everything has become more and more advance. People cannot wait until the next new hot item in the market. People crave this advance technology, but what they do not realize is that technology might be cruel, depending how…

Technology has helped yet hinder everyday life. It affects everyone and how they communicate to each other. It connects people and businesses to be able to share anything they would like. It also keeps families in touch whenever they need to talk. There are a variety of options to communicate with others. It is also the simplest form of communication when connecting to family and friends from far away. You can catch up on their lives through pictures and quick updates. As the world is rapidly…

The digital age has changed our perception of time, a lot of us now carry a device that we called smart media devices either a phone or a tablet and it continues on to beat the odds. Our lives are not the same anymore when these technologies came into our lives, we use it to communicate, educate and for the convenience it brings to our lives. With the help of digital technology we are constantly communicating, sending messages and making phone calls from any parts of the worlds nowadays. The…

Technology is developing and changing at an ever-growing rate, and the new “digital age” is having a profound effect on the way people process information, as explored in Nicholas Carr’s book, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. The author recognizes the great benefits that the internet has offered for researchers while heavily emphasizing the drawbacks that this new method of information-processing causes. Notably, he discusses the known benefits of educational presentations…