MOBILE APPLICATION ON CAMPUS NEWS FOR UTP STUDENTS

It is undeniable that information is essential in daily life. Information is important especially in the current world where information technology changing the people and the world to be more knowledgeable. With the various branch of information, news is one of the daily routine that needed to be consumed by the consumer. News will give people information about current or recent happening to the world.
The current trends in technology have given people the alternative of reading news through newspaper. Nowadays, people are likely to read news on website and even on their smartphone. News reading remains the important activity of what people do on their smartphone. Hence with the emergence of smartphone and tablet devices, the average consumption of news keeps getting higher and higher. Besides, mobile applications allows people to get news anywhere and anytime plus most people get news on the smartphone at least once per day.
As university students, they tend to adapt fast with the technology thus, most of them would already own a smartphone. In fact, some of them will always be alert with any news and updates especially on campus issues and events. Nevertheless, there are still some students that are not aware of what are the current issues in the campus. Campus news application will provide information to students and help them to be more aware of campus issues and be part of campus community. It is an easy used app in any university and this application has been made accordingly with Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP).
Through on campus news application, UTP students can just wake up in the morning and browse through updated news regarding any UTP issues or campus events and even academic related matters. Through one touch tap to the application, they will get all of the information, by just opening the UTP news application without having to open several web pages.