Chapter 2 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES This chapter contains the review of related literature and studies‚ conceptual model of the study and the operational definition of terms. Related Literature Many staff and students rely on mobile computing devices for work and personal uses. Laptop computers‚ Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs)‚ USB memory (aka thumb drives)‚ smart phones (mobile phones with advanced communication‚ storage and processing capabilities). They
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HOW SMART ARE SMART PHONES Ladies and gentlemen did you know nearly 20% of kids can operate a smart phone by the time they reach the age of 6‚ while only 9% can actually tie their shoelaces properly so says Nicholas Jackson of AVG. 58% of children polled can play basic computer games and not even yet ride a bicycle. Technology has stolen our child hood. Instead of having to protect us from the snakes in the grass and trees where we should be playing‚ our parents have to protect us from cyber bullying
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OPPORTUNITIES Mobile users The mobile market is growing rapidly. In fact‚ the mobile market is a fundamental part of the next coming year because mobile users are more likely to become active users. For instance‚ Facebook has more than %50 of all its users on mobile phones‚ around 500 million mobile users [1]. Being part of communities (Circles) Offer a place where a user can belong to specific communities. A place where people can do more than sharing pictures and comments‚ but a place where
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WeChat New-generation mobile messaging Nowadays‚ with the development of economy in China and the advance of science and technology‚ the Internet ecosystem changes dramatically‚ the way of social networking activities transformed significantly‚ mobile messaging is one of the most promising products in Chinese. The Mobile Internet Era in China. From the financial reports of 2 biggest Chinese Telecom Operators – China Mobile and China Telecom‚ we can get there are already more than 1 billion mobile
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The Smartphone Revolution The Smartphone Revolution In present day‚ we live in a world where it is difficult to imagine our lives without smartphones. But very few of the smartphone users can truly make out how the evolution of this technology happened. Our generation has lived with these devices‚ for as long as we can remember that even for a 3 year old‚ a phone with “push” buttons looks like an antique. The question then becomes‚ how did smartphones come into being? And how smart they
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Influence of mobile on health. Attitude & behavior on new generation Introduction: Back Ground: Mobile phones provide an interesting example of a source of risk to health which may be largely non-existent but which cannot be totally dismissed. Such risks‚ when possibly serious and with long-term consequences‚ are typically dealt with by appeal to the so-called precautionary principle but‚ of course‚ precaution comes at a price an increase in traffic accidents induced by the use of mobile phones
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LITERATURE REVIEW 2. Conceptualization of Important Concept ``The impact of Smartphone Usage among Students’’ 2.1 The impact of smartphone The impact have a lot of meaning and definition. The word impact has been used in a long time ago which is describe the what influenced the person about something ( Dr Colen‚ 2001). According to the oxford Dictionaries‚ impact means any forceful effect on something physically‚ such as something
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How Smart phones change our society A Smartphone is a mobile phone built on a mobile operating system‚ with more advanced computing capability than a feature phone. There are many types of Smart phones but they all have one thing in common. They combine the performance of a cell phone and a computer. In the past my father had to carry many things when he traveled. Such as a camera‚ a laptop‚ a mobile phone and etc. But now it’s in one thing Smartphone. Today each company is trying to come up
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4. Comparison of traditional credit card and virtual credit card Since the purpose of this article has been figured out which kind of credit card is more useful in the world filled with mobile devices‚ either traditional credit card or virtual credit card. In the previous sections‚ the definitions of traditional credit card and virtual credit card have been illustrated as well as the previous research on this topics by others authors. In this section‚ the comparison of traditional credit card and
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Android vs iOS In this modern times‚ almost all human in this world has a smartphone. Smartphones really helps our life with their capabilities of having almost the same functionalities with a personal computer. With that but can be held in almost all the time. Their small form makes people can bring them anytime‚ unlike a personal computer. Also‚ smartphones have the capabilities to connect to internet‚ thus with it can connect with other people with social media. Before the age of smartphones
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