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The Impact of Mobile Computing
Isaac Robinson
INF 103 Computer Literacy
Jeanette Cobabe
7/28/2014
For those of us that can remember what it was like to have to rely on using a typewriter in order to get a college paper written, or to use a computer that took 5 minutes just to boot up, knows that the age of mobile technology has come a long way. Many of the offices within organizations back in the day were all a buzz with the sounds of noisy keystrokes and the slamming of filing cabinet drawers and the non-stop operation of the copy machine. Today’s technology has made these old and cumbersome machines almost extinct. Mobile technology of the world has been vastly evolved over the last few decades. Through the creation of useful platforms and applications from some of the world’s leading innovators, we have the wide array of devices that are used by millions of people today to do things as simple as sending an e-mail, to brokering million dollar business deals from half way across the world with the simple push of a button.
There are almost limitless applications and that can assist anyone with almost any computing needs. There are a wide variety of word processing, presentations, databases and multimedia functions that aids in making both personal and professional life operate more efficiently (Bowles, 2013). The author tells us that some of the origins of early computing began with the era of word processing. This was a type of application software that functioned to enable one to easily compose written ideas on a computer (Bowles, 2013). Mainstream products like Microsoft Word that is used today, have rendered those early applications obsolete. The author suggests that other applications and programs such as Microsoft Power Point, and Excel and other database applications have revolutionized the way modern computing is accomplished today.
Mobile social computing appears when the mobile ecosystem reaches a
Isaac Robinson
INF 103 Computer Literacy
Jeanette Cobabe
7/28/2014
For those of us that can remember what it was like to have to rely on using a typewriter in order to get a college paper written, or to use a computer that took 5 minutes just to boot up, knows that the age of mobile technology has come a long way. Many of the offices within organizations back in the day were all a buzz with the sounds of noisy keystrokes and the slamming of filing cabinet drawers and the non-stop operation of the copy machine. Today’s technology has made these old and cumbersome machines almost extinct. Mobile technology of the world has been vastly evolved over the last few decades. Through the creation of useful platforms and applications from some of the world’s leading innovators, we have the wide array of devices that are used by millions of people today to do things as simple as sending an e-mail, to brokering million dollar business deals from half way across the world with the simple push of a button.
There are almost limitless applications and that can assist anyone with almost any computing needs. There are a wide variety of word processing, presentations, databases and multimedia functions that aids in making both personal and professional life operate more efficiently (Bowles, 2013). The author tells us that some of the origins of early computing began with the era of word processing. This was a type of application software that functioned to enable one to easily compose written ideas on a computer (Bowles, 2013). Mainstream products like Microsoft Word that is used today, have rendered those early applications obsolete. The author suggests that other applications and programs such as Microsoft Power Point, and Excel and other database applications have revolutionized the way modern computing is accomplished today.
Mobile social computing appears when the mobile ecosystem reaches a
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