A Report On Mobile Technology

The use of mobile devices has become so commonplace today that you can hardly step out your front door without them. We have become tethered to technology. Our dependence upon this technology is not the problem, how and where we choose to use it is.

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is when an employee uses one or more personal computing devices for business purposes. It can include personal computers, laptops, tablets, USB or flash drives, mobile phones and even online computing services such as Dropbox or Google Drive. The history of BYOD stems from the technological advances of the past 25 years, starting with employees accessing corporate networks from their home computers via dial-up modems in the late 1980’s and virtual private networks starting in the early 1990’s, continuing through the massive increase in mobile phones and access to corporate email via Blackberry type devices and culminating in the current state of being connected all the time via tablets

Define wireless technologies and mobile technologies. Next, determine at least three (3) ways which companies or organizations utilize such technologies to improve business efficiency.

Best defined, a bring-your-own device (BYOD) system is a network that is specifically designed for individuals to connect their own devices for use within the system (source). For example, X-Rocket may allow certain employees the luxury of using their own laptop or tablet computer for work-related purposes, rather than using a company device. While there are many advantages to utilizing a BYOD system, such as low-costs and flexibility, advanced security methods are required to ensure safe networking and data access. Current BYOD security issues include unknown third-party access, data tracking challenges, data leakage, and non-compliance with networking safety procedures (source). Notably, the Cobb County school district of Marietta, Georgia,

Before 2007 electronic devices served customers to interact with the world, was primarily laptops, desktops for emails, web browsing, chat and e-commerce. Starting around early 2008, there was gradual shift towards tablets and smartphones. Critical question to probe and understand is what elements of the environment drove this structural shift. From a technology perspective tablets and smartphones use low powered CPU’s and RAM compare to their laptops and desktops brethren. They use both Wi-Fi and Cellular antenna to connect to World Wide Web. Cellular service provider’s data speed, which is the primary source for smart phone speed seen considerable improvement from 2G to 3G and further to 4G3.

BYOD is gaining high popularity and growth which is evident from the Ovum’s research paper published in 2012. Respondents in the emerging, “high-growth” markets (including Brazil, Russia, India, UAE, and Malaysia) demonstrate a much higher propensity to use their own device at work. Almost 75% of users in these countries did so, compared to 44% in the more mature developed markets. The research revealed that 79% of employees in high growth markets believe that constant connectivity with work applications enables them to their job better, versus 53.5% in mature markets. There is a distinct lack of BYOD management – everywhere. On average only 20.1% of employees who use personal devices have also signed a policy governing that behaviour. USA and India are nearer to 50%. The

Using mobile technology via mobile applications will help automate the rental process and rental internal operations more quickly. In order to meet its efficiency objectives the rental company would need to solve many complex issues related to:

A business smartphone application can also recruit prospective customers. Each day, more people get addicted to their mobile device; so if a business were to have an application that customers can quickly access they

Bring-your-own-device, or BYOD, has increasingly become an accepted practice for corporate IT. With its purported productivity gains come with a whole new set of security concerns for IT departments and management. Principal among these is security, where much of the control that IT traditionally had is now in the hands in the users.

Back in early 2011, I was working for mobility unit of a major IT giant. I still remember how difficult it was to sell the idea of enterprise wide mobility solutions to even our internal stakeholders. The scenario has definitely undergone a radical shift in last couple of years. Not only are organizations embracing enterprise mobility but they are doing so on a priority basis. 67% of CIOs and IT professionals believe mobility will impact their businesses as much as or more than the internet did in the 1990s. [1] Mobile is no longer a device to just send emails on the go; it has evolved and grown into much more powerful tool to enhance productivity, streamline operations, and to keep employees connected with business and customers at all times. For example, consider a sales force executive- he can easily access all updated product related information on the field and he can file documents and take notes on this mobile or tablet, thus eliminating the need to do manual data entry after sales.

Being a librarian and one who has always “had a fascination with gadgets” (Hanson, 2011), and a passion for both information and technology, Hanson states he has been working for five years to find a better way to join technology and information. He notes “libraries and librarians have perceived themselves as subject to near-constant technological upheaval and information revolution, largely due to the rise of microcomputing, desktop computing and Internet connectivity.” (Hanson, 2011) He believes libraries are situated in a place to encourage libraries to provide mobile library services. With nearly all Americans owning cell phones, accessing the internet via their cell phones and tablets and major service providers focusing on mobile applications instead of applications for the PC, Hanson suggests it is time for libraries to also focus their efforts on providing mobile services.

The advancement in mobile technology that has occurred over the 21st century has certainly provided society with a plethora of benefits. Benefits like reduced cost, increased availability, and the ability to accomplish an increasing amount of tasks on these devices have made mobile technology more accessible and more of an intricate part of our daily lives than it ever was. However, the use of mobile devices has also presented risks that are enough to make the typical user constantly skeptical about how secure these devices are. These risks are extremely evident when it comes to the use of laptops. Laptops are used in all aspects of our lives today; we employ them for personal use as they are beginning to replace desktop Pcs in our homes, we also use them in our work place more often as they provide virtually all the necessities of a desktop computer without restricting our movement. They have even become somewhat of a necessity in our schools. This in essence has exposed all areas of our lives to the risks involved with the use of laptops.

Sometimes, it can be hard talking to people face-to-face. Maybe you avoid human beings you would actually enjoy spending time with. Low self-esteem and self-confidence is a problem many teenagers have today. The solution to this might be mobile phones. Although many claim that mobile technology represents a dark and asocial future, it is possible that it can help teenagers increase their confidence. In this text, I will discuss whether or not mobile technology can be a convenient part of our future by proving people with confidence.

There is being observed a mass proliferation of heterogeneous deployment of Android, Windows, iOS and Blackberry and other platforms as well connected mobile devices that have started to become a norm. This is also being embraced by organizations that is bring your own device (BYOD) trend on the other side the tablets and smartphone are increasingly becoming a center or say hub for personal and business data. And with the upcoming and already established technologies such as Bluetooth, NFC and others where machine to machine interaction is at its peak and mobile devices have started to become wallets and security badges and more.

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device): Students and lecturers are now coming to work with their own devices on campuses across the country. From iPads to new Android phones, new intelligent devices are launched daily with upgraded versions of operating systems that are ripe for infection and ready to infect the institutions network. This creates many security issues for campus security practitioners, who must secure an ever-increasing number of devices.