Effectiveness and Efficiency Mobile

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Mobile computing allows people to access data and information from anywhere with many types of devices. A big driver of the mobile computing is going to be the fact that the users are always connected to social networks when using their devices. Mobile computing is a fast growing technology that is only going to increase with use over the years. This paper will discuss the following: the effectiveness and efficiency mobile based applications provide to capture geolocation data, evaluate benefits realized by consumers, examine challenges of developing applications on mobile devices, methods that can be used to decide which platform to support, ways to provide high availability, and methods of making mobile devices more secure. Effectiveness and Efficiency Mobile-based Applications Provide With Regard to Geolocation and Consumer Data Geolocation is a technology that uses data acquired from an individual’s computer or mobile device (any type of radio or network-connection-enabled device) to identify or describe his/her actual physical location. (ISACA, 2011) This technology has become one of the most popular trends in social networking giving us the ability to let our friends know where we are, identify popular or convenient places close to our physical location or even remotely check in to restaurants. These types of applications when accessed on a desktop system are flatter and less of an experience. Most individuals at some point in time have pulled up MapQuest or Google Maps to get directions from point “A” to point “B”, printed thier directions and were on their way. But the experience is a lot richer when you are mobile and you’re Smartphone or other device automatically plugs in your current location. The relevant data you send and receive changes as your location changes. These applications are able to do this through a GPS chip inside the device.

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