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Mobile Computing in Society

Mobile Computing in Society. Jared Sutherland CIS 497 http://cis.ksu.edu/~jms9993. Overview. What is Mobile Computing? What are the advantages? What are the disadvantages? What is in store for the future?. What is Mobile Computing?. Mobile Computing:

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Mobile Computing in Society

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  1. Mobile Computing in Society Jared Sutherland CIS 497 http://cis.ksu.edu/~jms9993

  2. Overview • What is Mobile Computing? • What are the advantages? • What are the disadvantages? • What is in store for the future?

  3. What is Mobile Computing? • Mobile Computing: - ability to use technology to wirelessly connect to and use centrally located information and/or application software through the application of small, portable, and wireless computing and communication devices

  4. Examples of Mobile Computing • Laptop • Cell Phone • PDA • GPS • IPOD

  5. Mobile Computing in Society • What the advantages are - Laptops - Cell Phones - PDA - GPS Navigation • What the disadvantages are - Security - Cell Phones - Navigation

  6. Advantages • Laptops • Information on-the-go • Education • Wireless Office • Cell Phones • Economical • Safer Way to Travel • Not having to find a pay phone other way to communicate when away from your land line

  7. Number of Cell Phones in US 93 -02

  8. Advantages • PDA Medical -Less Error (drug interactions, double dose) -Medical -Handwritten records thing of the past -Real Time Charts for Doctors and Nurses Windows Operating System / Apps -Spread Sheet, Word Processor -Media Player

  9. Advantages • GPS - OnStar • Locate stolen vehicles • Emergency situations like locked keys in car • Service is available to approximately 1 million cars on the road

  10. Disadvantages • Cell Phones - Unsafe Driving - Lack of Etiquette • Security - Rogue Wireless Networks - Personal Theft - WEP easy to crack - Bluetooth Hacks • GPS Navigation - Vehicle Tracking for Companies

  11. WEP Cracking Video WEP Cracking Video

  12. Future of Mobile Computing • Devices will integrate each others technology Examples: -PDA Cell Phone -Cell Phones working with WLAN’s -Cell Phones with MP3 players • Wired devices thing of the past • Land lines

  13. Questions? Thank You

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