Excerpt: Mobile computing is really impacts many lives directly and indirectly. Many wireless computing devices such as GPS, mobile phone make my dreams come true by their wonderful functions. Location-base services today not only offered many choices. But also...
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Excerpt: Valerie Bennett and Andrew Capella write in their article Location based Services that “privacy is a very important issue in location-based services. As a user, Bob decides what applications are allowed to receive his location.” When I was at Norte...
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Excerpt: I think mobile computing is a great asset. If you're lost you can find your way home, if you're hungry you can find food, if you're bored you can find things to do. Unfortunately, I have a bad feeling mobile...
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Excerpt: I have used the Verizon Wi-Fi access card on my laptop which does gave me an extra mobility but like Jason says that carrying a laptop has inconveniences like requirement of space, battery and needs manual entry for providing location...
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Excerpt: I agree with Seam that mobile spam issues are growing. It is annoying and repelling mobile users. One of article I read in information week report that the survey finds 80% mobile received spam. It suprises me that is very...
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Excerpt: Location based services; according to me is a very promising technology in terms of its benefits and usage across the globe. It was first started by the Federal Communications Commission of US to provide emergency services to the mobile user...
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Excerpt: Of the readings for this week, two really stood out for me. I was quite interested in the Netville study, for several reasons. Primarily, it was interesting to hear about a study done in the real world, under mostly real...
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Excerpt: Dodgeball, a site for letting friends and associates know where you are if they are close by, sounds like a great idea. Send a message to a server saying “Hey I’m at Club 1234” and they know to come meet...
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Excerpt: Earlier this year (for a Marketing class), I did a lot of research on and wrote a marketing analysis for the MSN SPOT watch. The watch is a mobile device that uses wireless technology to connect users to the Internet...
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Excerpt: The article ‘Neighboring in Netville’ discusses various debates about how internet has affected the community. Commentators of internet fear less face to face social interaction and more alien interactions. This may however not be true in all case...
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Excerpt: The article ‘Neighboring in Netville’ discusses various debates about how internet has affected the community. Commentators of internet fear less face to face social interaction and more alien interactions. This may however not be true in all cases...
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Excerpt: Jason has mentioned the advantages of phone with WAP as compared to laptop.I totally agree with him that its is not a good idea to carry a laptop with you if you want to access Internet or locate near...
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Excerpt: Neighboring in Netville, composed by Keith Hampton and Barry Wellman, is a study on how the Internet supports social communities in an on-line suburban neighborhood. Communities have been a central part of human existence, since man started inhabiting ...
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Excerpt: This weeks readings had a lot to mention about ">Location-based services. The concept sounds pretty intriguing. According to IBM, i can "Receive alerts, such as notification of a sale on gas or warning of a traffic jam" or "Request the...
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Excerpt: While checking out explanatory animations for the Urban Tapestries project, it occurs to me: how effectively will obsolete data be removed from the systems? What happens when Goodge Street is repaved? Also, is this sort of technology going to make...
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Excerpt: There is no doubt that over the last ten years or so society at large has increasingly been moving towards a wireless community. A community that is no longer contingent upon the home pc. As the article by Bennett and...
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Excerpt: There's an acronym that cropped up fairly early on in the Internet's history - IRL, for "in real life". Initially, there was a disconnect between cyberspace and physical space, and what happened in cyberspace largely stayed in cyberspace. Location-base...
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Excerpt: I really can't believe how this type of new technology is infusing itself with popular culture. If someone read about Dodgeball who wasn't "hip" to the new tools of digital communication, they would think that it's a technology straight out...
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Excerpt: These are exciting times! The world-wide network that billions of people use daily isn't quite all that we need, so we're trying to find ways to improve it. It's been around for a few years now, and we know what...
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Excerpt: Dodgeball appears an interesting way of staying connected with your friends and their friends and maintaining a social network. Though as for now it is activated only in major cities in the United States, I would like to use it...
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I agree with Jym on his opinion that there is too much of tehcnology in our life these days! Things that were possible without the existing tehcnologies few years back seem impossible today. During my 11th grade, we all friends used to decide upon a venue and time for our get togethers and meet on time with any hassles and most importantly without any mobile devices on us. We didnt feel that we are missing out on anything and life seemed perfect!!! But today its a nightmare if we arent carrying our hand held devices with us. New technologies and devices are springing up at a very fast rate and as Jason mentions that he feels out of date if he visits BEST BUY or CIRCUIT CITY in a span of few days. We all are influenced by technology so much that the absence of it will leave most of us handicapped.

Commenting on Neha, i do kind of agree about her and Jym's opinions concerning technology. New devices and gadgets are popping up left and right, but, if you think about it, that’s the way its always been. Usually the younger generations are the ones to grab the new toys and use them more than older people who have their ways set. I personally tend to stay away from mobile IM, but I use AIM on my PC. Look at my parents, they have really no idea what instant messaging is, nor would they care to partake in it. My grandparents, barely know how to use a computer, they stick with the telephone, land line model. I do see a technology dependence stating to take a nice firm grip on us all, but hey, it makes life easier right?

While it is true that there has been a rapid proliferation of devices,I wouldn't necessarily be scared because of it, after all it does take quite a while for a particular device or a service to catch on and become popular.Enough time for you to conduct a peer-review as to whether it'll stay or not.More importantly you should have access to right information,if you get it off a PDA or mobile or off RSS newsreader on your laptop, I don't think it makes that much of a difference.

Responding to Joe's comment: "Mobile computing has begun to alter our perception of time, space, and community. As the consumer based world of mobile computing spreads throughout the world, it has the potential to mold a new society based upon the consumer’s needs, not what the corporate worlds thinks the consumer’s needs are."

I think this is an insightful comment. I have noticed this happening in marketing/advertising; the consumer is in control. Consider the cost comparison sites out there -- with a few mouse clicks, consumers can find best prices from sources they may never before have considered. Thanks to computer/Internet technology, marketers have to develop unique and non-traditional approaches to advertising. Has anyone seen the Frontline segment "Merchants of Cool?"