Business|Future|Social Networks|Mobile

All the pictures are retrieved from Henry Blodget's Post on Business Insider

Please refer to references for more information

Smartphone sales are more than computer and tablets. Most of the people use mobile for communications and social interaction. Use of web based application has been increased to millions.  

Users are spending more time on apps than on browsing and these internet users do no click on advertisements which effect e-commerce (social engagement, 2010). So to overcome this problem, businessmen have found a new way of advertising such as push notifications. So, Future of mobile and social media relies in business, and money investment online.

Famous social sites like facebook and twitter started a new way of advertising for mobile users. Now, let see at what height the business on social media through mobile rises to.

Reference:

Blodget H. (2012,October)The Future Of Smobile - Social Networking And Mobile. Business Insider. Retrieved from: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-future-of-smobile-2012-10?op=1#ixzz2aXtHgWHg

Social engagement. (2010, March 11). New Media Age, 24. Retrieved from: http://go.galegroup.com.library.sheridanc.on.ca/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA221000207&v=2.1u=ko_acd_shc&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w

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Mobile social networking boom and trends

Mobile social networking is a booming field and it has took the smartphone market by storm. Here are some amazing facts and figures about this booming field.

By the year 2013, 43% of global mobile internet users (607.5 million people worldwide) will be accessing social networks from their mobile devices, according to a new report from eMarketer, which characterizes mobile and social as still-emerging channels that are each helping drive the adoption of the other (Marketing Charts, 2011). In the US, mobile social networkers will total 56.2 million by 2013, and will account for nearly half (45%) of the mobile internet user population, eMarketer said (Marketing Charts, 2011).

Not surprisingly, the top destinations for mobile social networkers mirror those for computer users and include Facebook, MySpace and Twitter (Marketing Charts, 2011).

The full top-10 list:

1.     Facebook

2.     MySpace

3.     YouTube

4.     Twitter

5.     Yahoo

6.     MSN/Windows Live/Bing

7.     Flickr

8.     LinkedIn

9.     Blogger

10. MocoSpace

A look at selected social networking brands, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, revealed that each grew their mobile audiences by at least 50% in the past year (Marketing Charts, 2011). Facebook was home to the largest mobile audience among the three destinations with more than 57 million mobile users in August, up 50% from 38.2 million the previous year (Marketing Charts, 2011). Twitter saw its mobile audience jump 75% to 13.4 million people from 7.6 million people, while LinkedIn’s mobile audience climbed 69% from 3.2million to 5.5 million users (Marketing Charts, 2011).

Sources

http://www.marketingcharts.com/wp/direct/mobile-social-networking-booms-19742/

http://www.marketingcharts.com/wp/interactive/mobile-social-networking-grows-top-10-socnets-11089/

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Future Of Mobile and Social Media in Education

Social medial Technology (SMT) means use of mobile and web based technology that allows individuals or different organizations to access or share information in different Ways (charles,2013). The Use of Social media is increasing widely in field of education (Hester,2013). Those days are gone when students used to go school with heavy bags having bunch of books as now a small mobile  with a web or internet is able to provide all possible content and information and serve as a library (charles,2013). The development and intervention in technology completely changes the tradition system of education (Hester,2013).

Social media provides a new form of communication which helps students to build up connections by accessing social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and many more especially to those students who do not participate in class activities actively because they feel free to express their opinions through social media sites (Hester,2013) .Students are getting involved with their peers and teachers by posting pictures, links and sharing information and discussions. Social media is also used by educational organization for marketing purposes for new admissions(Hester,2013) .This video shows how social media effects education field.

References

1)Tinti-Kane, H. (2013). Overcoming Hurdles to Social Media in Education. EDUCAUSE Review. Retrieved July 30, 2013, from http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/overcoming-hurdles-social-media-education

2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOXPBYx5AOU

3) Davis, C. (n.d.). Social Media in Higher Education: A Literature Review and Research Directions | Charles H.F. Davis III - Academia.edu. Academia.edu - Share research. Retrieved July 31, 2013, from http://www.academia.edu/1220569/Social_Media_in_Higher_Education_A_Literature

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Mobile Technology Past- 1G to 2G

Mobile social networking started in the end 80’s, when people first started to interact with individuals of same interest and connect with them through their analog system based phone. Although social media sites like orkut, facebook and others were not in service at that time, people were still communicating through radio transmissions. We call this first generation of social networking.

The needs for improved transmission quality, higher system capacity, better system coverage, more services, security and better spectral efficiency paved the way toward second generation cellular systems. Thereafter, evolution began and mobile technology leveled up to second generation around 2000-03, where individuals could interact with others using features like phone calls and text.  Internet access was mainly done through the computers only because of slow internet speeds on mobile phones.

Reference: Mousa, A. M. (2012). Prospective of Fifth Generation Mobile Communications.International Journal Of Next-Generation Networks, 4(3), 11-30. doi:10.5121/ijngn.2012.4302

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Evolution of Mobile phones

                Mobile phones has certainly came a long way from the Motorola's DynaTACs in 1984 to smartphones available these days. These first used to weight between 500- 900 grams (CBC, 2013). The first original smartphone was launched in 1993 by Bellsouth and IBM (CBC, 2013). They announced their creation of the Simon personal communicator phone, touted as the world's first smartphone (CBC, 2013). The device, with a $899 suggested pricetag, boasted such features as: a pager, e-mail, a stylus for writing on the screen, with handwriting reflected as-is for faxes, a complete keypad featuring letters and numbers and a calendar that could be updated automatically from a remote computer (CBC, 2013).

                           The first camera-phones were Nokia 7650 and the Sanyo SPC-5300 launched back in 2001 (CBC, 2013). Web on the mobile phone is certainly not new and has come a long way from black and white WAP services.

                          BlackBerry's first integrated phone (BlackBerry 6210) was unveiled in 2003 which offered features such as email, texting, a web browser, BlackBerry messenger service, allowing for web-based communication between BlackBerry users (CBC, 2013).

                          One of the major developments in history of smartphones was the launch of first iPhone by Apple on 2007. The company described the phone as combining three products into one handheld device: a mobile phone, an iPod and a wireless communication device (CBC, 2013). One of the revolutionary feature was the touch screen which allowed users to command the device using fingers (CBC, 2013). 

                                                                                Sources

              http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/04/02/tech-cellphone-anniversary-top-moments-in-history.html

              http://global.factiva.com.library.sheridanc.on.ca/ha/default.aspx

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