Mobile technologies
by Kirsty Campbell
1. Mobile Phones
1.1. Facts
1.1.1. There are estimated to be 1.5 billion mobile phones in the world today (Prensky, 2004).
1.1.2. ‘One day, 2 or 3 billion people will have cell phones, and they are not all going to have PCs … The mobile phone will become their digital life’. (Stone, 2004)
1.1.3. Phone functions
1.2. Daily Mail
1.3. Safety
1.3.1. Daily Mail
1.3.2. Stolen Phones
1.3.3. Invasion of rights
1.4. Help
1.5. Mobile Technology Document
2. Laptops
2.1. Internet
2.1.1. Parent Guide
3. Viruses
3.1. Cabir, infects phones and devices running the Symbian operating system and can be passed to other devices via Bluetooth.
3.2. transfer of the virus is dependent upon a nearby phone user having Bluetooth turned on and accepting the virus in spite of it being preceded by a warning that the source of the file is unknown.
3.3. Virus Writers primary targets are Windows operating systems and they do not seem interested in mobile devices
4. embrace mobile technologies
4.1. bbc news
5. Satellite Navigation
5.1. A person can find out where your home is and recent destinations you have visited.
5.1.1. For example, finding keys to a car and there is a sat nav in there, they can break into your house.