Chapter Three Search Exercise

Mobile device use in business is actually a very interesting subject to use for our chapter 3 exercise. It is current and extremely relevant to what is happening in many types of businesses.  Well anyway I did my searches through Google News to find articles on the subject for my blog.   I typed in “mobile devices in business” which resulted 13,200 hits.  I then narrowed the search to anything written about the subject in the past week.   This is how current the discourse is about business mobile device use, the hits only decreased to 11,100.  


As you can see from the sources I cited in my previous blog, I used mainstream and well established sources to base my blog.  There was one that I did find intriguing and it was from the Sacramento Bee (www.sacbee.com) an old and established newspaper from Sacramento California.  I liked the article about security with mobile device business use, but as it turned out it was a press release by a content lifecycle management company called Litera (www.literia.com).  At least there was a disclosure added by the publishers of Sacramento Bee.  Although informative, I would consider this unreliable source of information.

Screen shot of "article" from Sacramento Bee Website
Please take a look at the top gray area, there is a disclosure about the "article."

I then followed the link to PR Newswire.  As it turned out this is a firm the specializes in public relations.  

Screen shot of PR Newswire site.