Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Smartphone PDF full book. Access full book title The Smartphone by Elizabeth Woyke. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Elizabeth Woyke Publisher: The New Press ISBN: 1595589635 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 306
Book Description
We think we know everything about our smartphones. We use them constantly. We depend on them for every conceivable purpose. We are familiar with every inch of their compact frames. But there is more to the smartphone than meets the eye. How have smartphones shaped the way we socialize and interact? Who tracks our actions, our preferences, our movements as recorded by our smartphones? These are just some of the questions that journalist Elizabeth Woyke answers in this muckraking expose of the $241 billion industry that produces more than 700 million devices each year. In the tradition of The Coffee Book, The Sneaker Book, Oil, and Cigarettes, The Smartphone offers not only a step-by-step guide to how smartphones are designed and manufactured but also a bold exploration of the darker side of this massive industry, including the exploitation of labor, the disposal of electronic waste, and the underground networks that hack and smuggle smartphones. Featuring interviews with key figures in the development of the smartphone and expert assessments of the industry's main players--Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung--The Smartphone is the perfect introduction to this most personal of gadgets. Your smartphone will never look the same again.
Author: Elizabeth Woyke Publisher: The New Press ISBN: 1595589635 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 306
Book Description
We think we know everything about our smartphones. We use them constantly. We depend on them for every conceivable purpose. We are familiar with every inch of their compact frames. But there is more to the smartphone than meets the eye. How have smartphones shaped the way we socialize and interact? Who tracks our actions, our preferences, our movements as recorded by our smartphones? These are just some of the questions that journalist Elizabeth Woyke answers in this muckraking expose of the $241 billion industry that produces more than 700 million devices each year. In the tradition of The Coffee Book, The Sneaker Book, Oil, and Cigarettes, The Smartphone offers not only a step-by-step guide to how smartphones are designed and manufactured but also a bold exploration of the darker side of this massive industry, including the exploitation of labor, the disposal of electronic waste, and the underground networks that hack and smuggle smartphones. Featuring interviews with key figures in the development of the smartphone and expert assessments of the industry's main players--Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Samsung--The Smartphone is the perfect introduction to this most personal of gadgets. Your smartphone will never look the same again.
Author: Mohammad Ilyas Publisher: Intl. Engineering Consortiu ISBN: 9781931695503 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 268
Book Description
Analyzing the new technology of Smartphones in great detail, this guide discusses relevant reference solutions, the role of middleware on related operating systems, and how cell phone vendors consequently confront this growing challenge. A very detailed and cogent perspective on the world of Smartphones, the report examines its vast feature sets, reveals its impact on other leading technologies and companies, and supplies extensive case studies on how Smartphones enhance user productivity and encourage deployment of user applications.
Author: Martin Campbell-Kelly Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674286553 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 249
Book Description
This compact history traces the computer industry from its origins in 1950s mainframes, through the establishment of standards beginning in 1965 and the introduction of personal computing in the 1980s. It concludes with the Internet’s explosive growth since 1995. Across these four periods, Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel Garcia-Swartz describe the steady trend toward miniaturization and explain its consequences for the bundles of interacting components that make up a computer system. With miniaturization, the price of computation fell and entry into the industry became less costly. Companies supplying different components learned to cooperate even as they competed with other businesses for market share. Simultaneously with miniaturization—and equally consequential—the core of the computer industry shifted from hardware to software and services. Companies that failed to adapt to this trend were left behind. Governments did not turn a blind eye to the activities of entrepreneurs. The U.S. government was the major customer for computers in the early years. Several European governments subsidized private corporations, and Japan fostered R&D in private firms while protecting its domestic market from foreign competition. From Mainframes to Smartphones is international in scope and broad in its purview of this revolutionary industry.
Author: Daniel Miller Publisher: UCL Press ISBN: 1787359611 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 323
Book Description
The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would know what it is. But do we? To find out, 11 anthropologists each spent 16 months living in communities in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, focusing on the take up of smartphones by older people. Their research reveals that smartphones are technology for everyone, not just for the young. The Global Smartphone presents a series of original perspectives deriving from this global and comparative research project. Smartphones have become as much a place within which we live as a device we use to provide ‘perpetual opportunism’, as they are always with us. The authors show how the smartphone is more than an ‘app device’ and explore differences between what people say about smartphones and how they use them. The smartphone is unprecedented in the degree to which we can transform it. As a result, it quickly assimilates personal values. In order to comprehend it, we must take into consideration a range of national and cultural nuances, such as visual communication in China and Japan, mobile money in Cameroon and Uganda, and access to health information in Chile and Ireland – all alongside diverse trajectories of ageing in Al Quds, Brazil and Italy. Only then can we know what a smartphone is and understand its consequences for people’s lives around the world.
Author: Paolo Dabove Publisher: ISBN: 9781536158304 Category : Smartphones Languages : en Pages : 298
Book Description
Smartphones are mobile devices that perform many of the functions of a computer, typically having a touchscreen interface, Internet access, and an operating system capable of running downloaded apps. It is neither possible to cover all research fields where smartphones are used nor to describe all possible applications where smart devices are used. This book wants to highlight a selection of restricted contributions in the emerging research fields where smartphones can be used for innovative approaches. Then, this book is meant for academic researchers, engineers and for others who want to find out more about smartphone emerging technologies and future applications.
Author: Enrique G. Publisher: Enrique Gérman ISBN: Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 54
Book Description
🎯 Attention smartphone users: Are you ready to unlock the true potential of your device? 🔓 🔥 Interest: From shopping for the right model to setting up your new device, customizing its settings, and even maintaining its performance, "From Zero to Ninja: Buy it, Set Up it, Customize it, Maintain it with Free Support!" is your ultimate guide! 📗💡 🏆 Desire: Imagine having the confidence and knowledge to use your smartphone like a pro! From the most basic tasks to the more complex functionalities, you will be able to navigate your device effortlessly. No more confusion, no more frustration, just smooth and efficient use of your smartphone. 🏅📲 🙋♂️ Action: Don't let technology intimidate you! Join the ranks of our tech-savvy readers today and discover how to get the most out of your Android or Apple smartphone! Plus, with your purchase, you'll get free support via various platforms to assist you on your tech journey. Tap into the knowledge today! 🎁🛍️ 🔑 Hashtags: #SmartphoneNinja #TechGuide #Android #Apple #SmartphoneSetUp #CustomizeYourPhone #TechSupport #ZeroToNinja Turn your tech woes into tech wins with our comprehensive guide! 💪📈
Author: Vikas Rajole Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3656426627 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 59
Book Description
Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Computer Science - IT-Security, grade: 75, Royal Holloway, University of London, course: M.Sc. Information Security, language: English, abstract: Smartphones have been widely accepted by mass market users and enterprise users. However, the threats related to Smartphones have also emerged. Smartphones carry substantial amount of sensitive data. There have been successful attacks in the wild on jail broken phones. Smartphones needs to be treated like a computer and has to be secured from all type of attacks. There are proof of concept attacks on Apple iOS and Google Android. This project aims to analyse some attacks on Smartphones and possible solutions to defend the attacks. This project also uses a proof of concept malware for testing antivirus software.
Author: Dae Young Kim Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 1498541763 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 253
Book Description
Transnational Communities in the Smartphone Age: The Korean Community in the Nation’s Capital examines the durable ties immigrants maintain with the home country and focuses in particular on their transnational cultural activities. In light of changing technologies, especially information and communication technologies (ICTs), which enable a faster, easier, and greater social and cultural engagement with the home country, this book argues that middle-class immigrants, such as Korean immigrants in the Washington-Baltimore region, sustain more regular connections with the homeland through cultural, rather than economic or political, transnational activities. Though not as conspicuous and contentious as other forms of transnational participation, cultural transnational activities may prove to be more lasting and also serve as a backbone for maintaining longer-lasting connections and identities with the home country.
Author: Leslie A. Perlow Publisher: Harvard Business Press ISBN: 1422144046 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 286
Book Description
Argues that monitoring one's electronic business communication 24/7 is actually counterproductive and offers a plan for companies to take time to "disconnect" in order to boost their productivity.
Author: Nasser Kehtarnavaz Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers ISBN: 1681734664 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 169
Book Description
Real-time or applied digital signal processing courses are offered as follow-ups to conventional or theory-oriented digital signal processing courses in many engineering programs for the purpose of teaching students the technical know-how for putting signal processing algorithms or theory into practical use. These courses normally involve access to a teaching laboratory that is equipped with hardware boards, in particular DSP boards, together with their supporting software. A number of textbooks have been written discussing how to achieve real-time implementation on these hardware boards. This book discusses how to use smartphones as hardware boards for real-time implementation of signal processing algorithms as an alternative to the hardware boards that are used in signal processing laboratory courses. The fact that mobile devices, in particular smartphones, have become powerful processing platforms led to the development of this book enabling students to use their own smartphones to run signal processing algorithms in real-time considering that these days nearly all students possess smartphones. Changing the hardware platforms that are currently used in applied or real-time signal processing courses to smartphones creates a truly mobile laboratory experience or environment for students. In addition, it relieves the cost burden associated with using dedicated signal processing boards noting that the software development tools for smartphones are free of charge and are well-maintained by smartphone manufacturers. This book is written in such a way that it can be used as a textbook for real-time or applied digital signal processing courses offered at many universities. Ten lab experiments that are commonly encountered in such courses are covered in the book. This book is written primarily for those who are already familiar with signal processing concepts and are interested in their real-time and practical aspects. Similar to existing real-time courses, knowledge of C programming is assumed. This book can also be used as a self-study guide for those who wish to become familiar with signal processing app development on either Android or iPhone smartphones.
Author: Elizabeth Woyke
Author: Elizabeth Woyke
Author: Mohammad Ilyas
Author: Martin Campbell-Kelly
Author: Daniel Miller 
Author: Paolo Dabove
Author: Enrique G.
Author: Vikas Rajole
Author: Dae Young Kim
Author: Leslie A. Perlow
Author: Nasser Kehtarnavaz