My book project

I have started reading the book Business @ the speed of light, by Bill Gates. I have read pages 1 through 24 and I am still having a hard time understanding what he is talking about but it is still a good book. I chose this book because Bill Gates is like one of the most powerful people in technology. In the section that I have read he talks about how companies can use technology to make their business run faster, better and provide more of what the customer wants. He gives the examples of Ford and McDonald's as companies that have used technology to get consumer feedback very quickly. I think that the book is funny because it was written in 1997 just before the big ordeal of the new millennium. I have also realized that a lot of the stuff in the book is realistic and companies would be considered primitive if they didn't use technology. The classrooms and stores use technology to better themselves against other schools and direct competition for businesses. As of right now I am not in favor of this book just because it is outdated and he is talking about stores staring to put sales online and track everything through a network, and the are all doing it now.

Jitterbug

All of this information as found at teckcrunch.com.



Have you seen this new phone? If you haven't then you have been living under a rock for the past couple years. This phone is the Jitterbug. It is the answer to many peoples complaints about old folk and cell phones. It was specifically made to be the most easy to use phone. There are two types of Jitterbug phones, the Dial and the One Touch. As you can see in the picture, the Dial closely resembles a regular phone. It has all of the numbers and a yes/no button. This makes it easy to use and the numbers are very large to make sure old people can use them. You can not text or take pictures wit this phone or do anything that any other phone can do. I enjoy the simplicity of this phone and think it is a great idea for older people. The One Touch is the only phone of it's kind. It has a total of nine buttons and most people will only use three of them. As you can see there is an operator button to call anyone with out having to find their name in your phone. There is a tow button to call a preset tow company to come to you and pick you up. There is also a 911 button for those emergencies that always happen with old people. I believe that this phone is a joke. diff you don't have the mental strength to look up a loved ones name in your phone, you shouldn't have a cell phone.

Which should you choose? Droid or IPhone.

The first thing that you need to know about each phone is the network each has. Droid has Verizon, and IPhone has At&t. Both have good 3g service. So as far as networks go they are ruffly the same and it doesn't matter what network you get. As far as shape and structure go each phone has a very different style. The IPhone is a single slab of machinery. It is all touch and almost no buttons. The whole phone can be used as a screen. It has no keypad but you do get to one on the screen when you need to type something. It has a lot of memory and 5 hours of talk time with one charge. The droid is a sliding keyboard phone with a full touch screen and a keyboard under it. It has a very powerful and fast processor, but lacks the memory that the other phone has.

The next thing is the features on each and mostly the apps for each. As we know there is an IPhone app for everything( there are over 100,000) and the Droid has the Android market.(10,000 apps) The Droid is fully google capable and uses it to the full extent of its capability. The IPhone has ITunes and that is a great thing for most people because many have an IPod.

So both are good and both are very expensive and unless you have $300 to drop on one of these you can forget everything I just said.

cell phones and countries

I found this list of the top 100 countries and how many cell phones they use.

http//www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0933605.html, this website gives you a list of the countries. I thought it was cool that china was on the top of the list. This shows that even when countries are poor as dirt, they can still make an impact on the world.

This is an early cell phone. As you can tell, no one in the world uses these anymore. This just shows how much cell phones have changed. It is hard to believe that in 10 years cell phones could become obsolete. I can not not to see what the future holds for technology.

I enjoy using a cell phone, but I think people get carried away. We just held a national competition for texting. I think it was a joke that some one could win a scholarship for texting fast. I believe that people in the world are into cell phones way too much. We some how need to regulate how we use them. Its great to talk to people but where can you draw the line? Is having a video chat with someone in France too much. With all of the worlds communications on data and computers, it makes it easier for people to hack and mess everything up. If you have seen the new live free or die hard movie, you would have seen what could happen if a smart gut could get a hold of the worlds communications. If one man or a nation get control of everything with computers, it could ruin everything. I like that people can check email and trade stocks online, but what if you lose your smart phone and someone finds it and goes onto your stock trader on your phone with the Internet capabilities. They could lose you more money than you own and put you in debt. I think that you should only be able to do certain things on phones.

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So I tried to go the weekend without my phone, and it was pretty easy because I sick most of the weekend. I do think it would have been more difficult if i could have actually talked to people. So now I would like to tell you about some of the amazing things phones can do. As most people know, phones can go on the internet and download music and games. Now phones can get GPS and with smart phones you can buy things for it like a recipe book, if your hungry, a map of a city, a spanish dictonary, that speaks the lanuage for you. So now we are getting to the point where you can do almost anything with the use of a cellphone. After much research, I found that you can also transform in to mini fighting robots. Im kidding, but they can hold video chats with people, which is very cool.