CIS 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Base Transceiver Station, Digital Signal Processor, Video Editing Software

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

Chapter 8: digital devices and media: managing a digital lifestyle. Digital convergence: the use of a single unifying device to handle media, internet, entertainment, and telephony needs: the evolution of smartphones. Personal digital assistants (pdas: a small device that allows you to carry digital information, aka palm computers or handhelds, small but can hold a shit ton of information, can be synched with your home computer. Features touch-sensitive screens that allow you to enter data with a stylus. Pdas have a special notation system that is popularly used: graffiti text system. Functionality is based on benchmarking and operating time on one charge: most pdas contain internal hard drives, modern pdas use ram for running applications; otherwise user data is stored in flash rom. You can transfer data from your pda to your desktop using a cradle or sync cable: many pdas have an irda port that transmits data signals using infrared light waves.