Object Oriented HW Functions Accelerate Communication, Computing, and Multimedia Convergence

Abstract

The current trend of multi-domain applications convergence in mobile devices is transforming the landscape of consumer preferences and personal habits. These appliances are not merely communicating devices but have become integral part of one's business and lifestyle needs. For example, tiny handsets of today are incorporating features such as camera, MP3 player, gaming, global positioning systems, and numerous other personalized (such as address book, calendar, memo pad, financial etc.) applications, which would have been insane to imagine just few years before. This trend would continue and applications such as digital audio and video streaming including personalized content delivery mechanism will be coming soon to one's handheld device. Current convergence of heterogeneous applications basically has evolved as addons with hardware abstraction, Application Programming Interface (API), and middleware wrapper. This Velcro scheme neither yields extensible nor scalable solution. The power inefficiency reduces talk/idle times substantiallythe most undesirable feature for any mobile appliance. This paper proposes functional reuse by exploiting intrinsic computing requirements utilizing principles of object oriented programming such as abstraction, instantiation, and overloading-kind of bringing object oriented programming at hardware level.

Idiosyncratic distances: Impact of mobile technology practices on role segmentation and integration

“…This first analysis has been essential to our study to clarify the different uses that are possible with a single device such calling, sending and keeping text messages, taking pictures, listening to music, etc. (Hjorth, 2008;Jha, 2007) as well as to identify how individuals deal with intrusions. We used a grounded theory approach (Glaser and Strauss, 1967) to sort out the data which led to an interpretive and inferential coding.…”

“…Text messages have become more and more popular especially among young people (Tjora, 2011). Then, the miniaturization that has increased the memory capacity (Vihmalo and Lipponen, 2005) and features such as camera, MP3 player, gaming, address book, memo among others (Jha, 2007) have enabled people to personalize their device by adding personal pictures, songs and so on. With mobile technologies, communications are therefore not embedded in specific contexts anymore and people can bring their environments wherever they go.…”