Digital humanitarianism

Mobile tech can be a major driver of protest for sure but in the end of the day it is not about the technology but about how people chose to use technology i.e. its about behavior. In this video, Paul Conneally shows extraordinary examples of social media and other new technologies becoming central to humanitarian aid.

Reference:

Conneally.P (2011, November). Digital Humanitarianism. TED ideas worth spreading. Retrieved from: http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_conneally_digital_humanitarianism.html

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Requirements Of future Mobile Communications

It is expected that data rates of mobile is going to increase in following years .In 2015  the 

demand of mobile going to increase by 26 time in comparison to 2010(Patrick, Bernhard, Agnieszka, Preben, Hao, Michael, Simone,Klaus, Troels, 2012).New Interventions will be expected to released having new services and dimensions from the aspects of technology and business (Patrick, Bernhard, Agnieszka, Preben, Hao, Michael, Simone,Klaus, Troels, 2012). Presently second generation networks are used which are currently replaced by M2M connections and the graph Of M2M connections is expected to rise in 2015 by more than 30% of annual growth with less latency in cloud computing and three dimensional (3D) video as compared to present network (Patrick, Bernhard, Agnieszka, Preben, Hao, Michael, Simone,Klaus, Troels, 2012).

Growth of Data rate should be gained by increasing base stations (By increasing number of   cells to existing cells) and spectral power in each base station which is b/s/Hz/Cell(Patrick, Bernhard, Agnieszka, Preben, Hao, Michael, Simone,Klaus, Troels, 2012).Another technology that will be used is Multiple Input and Multiple Output (MIMO) technique in collaboration with coordinated multipoint which will reduce intercell noise but in order to achieve this there are some technically and economically obstructions(Patrick, Bernhard, Agnieszka, Preben, Hao, Michael, Simone,Klaus, Troels, 2012).Last but not the least energy dissipation and cost will get alleviate by reusing existed air interfaces and heterogeneous network development(Patrick, Bernhard, Agnieszka, Preben, Hao, Michael, Simone,Klaus, Troels, 2012).

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References:Marsch, p., Raaf, B., Szufarska, A., Mogensen, P., Guan, H., Farber, M., et al. (2012). Challenges in the Design and operation. Future Mobile Communication Networks, 1556-6072/12(2012), 8.

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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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Mobile Technology- 3G to Present

Third generation boosted the mobile technology and moved media heights up high. Introduction to 3G network and camera phone added many features such as uploading pictures, profile searches, interact with strangers outside the friend circle etc. Now people were able to video call, send and receive pictures and access high speed internet. Meanwhile around this era, social networking sites like orkut became popular. After few years facebook took over which attracted the attention on many other internet users. This was a huge change in the history to social media and social sites.

In 2010, Mobile technology reached to high speed network called 4G. In addition to 3G network, it support LTE and WiMAX contenders. Features included, web 2.0, multiplayer gaming, flash,multipoint audio chat, video conversation and all the old features of 3G.

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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Mobile Phone Choices

Mobile phones are now created as social tools. Smartphones are especially good at being social, integrating text, voice, video and images in an endless number of apps that can serve a user’s needs, and all without the need for a web-based social network. Almost 750 million users out of a smartphone population of over billion are already using these apps.

If you are Google, Facebook or almost any other major provider of social communications platforms originally developed for the web, this move to mobile messaging represents a considerable challenge. Choices of mobile phones are changing every year. Most of the population own the smartphones which are latest and support social network better than others. We have previously experienced a shift from the second generation (2G) to the third generation (3G) mobile phones, which changed the way people use their mobile phones. The rise of the 3G network and its consumer acceptance is said to be one of the toughest marketing challenges in recent history (Benady, 2002).  Recent Consumer shift from 3G to 4G means that in order to be able to use the services offered by the faster network consumers need to acquire new mobile handsets equipped with more easy Internet access and new features such as possibility to have gesture recognition, event manager, wireless charging etc. However, at present the majority of new mobile phones purchased are low-cost handsets without the latest technological features.

Benady, D. (2002). As simple as one-two-3G. Marketing Week, 26-29.

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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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Evolution In Social Media

Social medial is evolving at faster rate especially social networking sites which are beneficial to all individual and to different business organizations in different prospects. In this year, Facebook went through different changes and develop some new tools for example # Hash tags use for pages and profiles (ChatterBuzz media,2013).  Users can insert hastags for the content which will be searchable. Another recent update on Facebook is verification of pages which is constructive for popular personality’s (ChatterBuzz media,2013) .With the invention of this updates, Followers are able to differentiate fake and legal pages of their favourites (ChatterBuzz media,2013) . Graph search is another tool on Facebook that allows individuals to find out business trends depends on their likes and interests. Facebook also improves its conversation tools by inserting replies tool to previous comments and many more (ChatterBuzz media,2013) .

Twitter develops trends in more than 100 locations which show people views all over the world (ChatterBuzz media,2013) . For instance if there are some changes in trends for particular business on twitter, it will get exposed and people can search these trends limited to their region or nation too instead of all world. Google, YouTube, Pinterest and many other social networking sites come through different changes and advancement from previous years (ChatterBuzz media,2013). For recent changes in all Social networking sites you can find more information in following link http://moz.com/ugc/changes-and-trends-in-social-media-in-2013

 References: Changes and Trends in Social Media in 2013 - It's Evolving Every Day! - YouMoz - Moz. (n.d.). SEOmoz is now Moz. Software and Community for Better Marketing. - Moz. Retrieved July 30, 2013, from http://moz.com/ugc/changes-and-trends-in-social-media-in-2013

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