Personal assistant

Technology has had the largest impact on our society and culture in the past few decades. Before cellular communication, life was very simplistic in which pen and paper were used to form letters to send information to those who were not close by before the rise of technology. As the Internet and mobile phones were created, there was a rapid increase in the production and distribution of cellular devices as their popularity steadily increased. The introduction of the flip phone was a giant…

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,…

think about what has been gained, nor about what has been lost. It 's just become a part of us. The development of the cell phone, especially the smartphone, is crucial to understanding technology and its effect on our culture. It is the epitome of personal computers and the most individualized form of technology we have to date, not to mention the most common.…

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…

Causing addiction is another impact of using smartphone early that researchers have suggested that parents should keep their eyes on their children. In fact, a smartphone provides many beneficial applications to satisfy the entertaining need of children, so this device can easily be a source of addiction. Once a child becomes addicted to smartphone usage, it will leave many negative and long-term effects on these kids, even to their adulthood. Kids are familiar with using smartphones to play, to…

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…

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…

Samsung galaxy S5 is the new android smartphone under the S series produced by Samsung electronics. It is an improved version also known as immediate successor of the previous product, S4. After much anticipation, S5 was first revealed on 24 February 2014 in Spain at the Mobile World Congress event before the official release on 11 April 2014 to over 150 countries in total. S5 to date is one of Samsung’s best smartphone with many consumers agreeing with positive reviews towards its high…