The concept of cross media can be defined as a “…story or experience that is distributed across multiple media platforms using a variety of media forms.” (crossmedia innovations) which has increased since technology revolutionised and has become a huge part of our lives. The media in today’s society has arguably become much freer to do what they want than ever before because of the growth of cross media platforms and technology. There has been a rise of blogs, the uploading of videos and a massive
The Ethics of Microsoft’s Product Pricing Structure Introduction Microsoft, currently one of the world’s biggest and most influential software companies, was found in 1975 by William Gates and Paul Allen.[1] It quickly positioned itself as a leader in the software community and due to the strength growth of its user base for the Windows operating system and numerous other products, it became both widely popular and widely hated. Many consumers love the suite of products that Microsoft offers
simple words, multimedia can be known as the compound of diverse media elements. Multimedia is a powerful instrument consists of combination of various types of media which involve human-computer interaction process (Gunasekaran and Love, 1999). In general, multimedia components can be classified into five major classes: text, audio, video, graphics and animation (refer to Figure 1 in Appendix 1). First of all, text is a classic media element in multimedia application. From the pass decades, text evolved
ATM hacking has become more and more prevalent in society today. The more technology improves the more fraud is done. The U.S alone, has fallen victim to ATM hacking over the last decade. There has been countless numbers of ATM hacking taking place, having billions of dollars loss and innocent people now in debt. ATM hacking has really proved to be effective and has become a major success for criminals. In the article, “Hackers Devise Wireless Methods for Stealing ATM Users' PINs”, author Jordan
MP3 Player versus Mini iPod Sony is the world’s leading portable entertainment manufacturer, and Apple iPod is the most famous MP3 player. After Apple introduces their new product mini-iPod, Sony brings in their new MP3 player, NW-MS90D. The original iPod is a very successful product, but can it continue to be the best on a smaller device as mini-iPod or Sony will be the best smallest MP3 player? I will compare them with the specifications from their official webpage. First of all, we look
However, when it comes to mp3 players there is a vast selection, but the one that really stands out is the Ipod by Apple. This is because it is light weight and it can hold a large amount of songs depending on how big the storage is, and on Apple's latest model there is video capability. So not only does it have music but you could watch videos too. What would be even better is if there would be a digital camera on it as well, then your problems of carrying both the mp3 player and digital camera would
1. Introduction 1.1. Topic Computer system have become an essential part of life, having significant impact on modern society. A computer system consists of hardware components that have been carefully chosen so that they work well together and software components or programs that run in the computer. It is a set of integrated devices that input, output, process, and store data and information. There are several types of computer systems which are “Mainframe” computer and “Desktop” computer being
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