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The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think

by Eli Pariser

In December 2009, Google began customizing its search results for all users, and we entered a new era of personalization. With little notice or fanfare, our online experience is changing, as the websites we...

Voip for Dummies

by Timothy V. Kelly

Put your phone system on your computer network and see the savings

See how to get started with VoIP, how it works, and why it saves you money

VoIP is techspeak for "voice over Internet protocol," but it could...

Hashing in Computer Science: Fifty Years of Slicing and Dicing

by Alan G. Konheim

Written by one of the developers of the technology, Hashing is both a historical document on the development of hashing and an analysis of the applications of hashing in a society increasingly concerned with...

Professional Windows Phone 7 Application Development: Building Applications and Games Using Visual Studio, Silverlight, and Xna

by Nick Randolph & Christopher Fairbairn

A one-of-a-kind book on Windows Phone 7 development

While numerous books cover both Silverlight and XNA, there lacks a resource that covers the specifics of Windows Phone 7 development. This book fills that void...

Millimeter Wave Communication Systems

by Kao-Cheng Huang & Zhaocheng Wang

The aim of this book is to present the modern design and analysis principles of millimeter-wave communication system for wireless devices and to give postgraduates and system professionals the design insights...

Virtual Teamwork: Mastering the Art and Practice of Online Learning and Corporate Collaboration

by Robert Ubell

"This book, by Robert Ubell and his excellent team of collaborators, adds an important dimension to effective teaching and learning in online environments. It addresses how interaction and collaboration online...

Broadband Optical Access Networks

by Leonid G. Kazovsky, Ning Cheng & Wei-Tao Shaw

Convergence of Mobile and Stationary Next-Generation Networks

by Krzysztof Iniewski

The Only Resource to Cover Wireless, Wireline, and Optical Networks in One Volume

Mobile and stationary next-generation networks that access the photonic core are destined to become as ubiquitous as traditional...

Telecom For Dummies

by Stephen P. Olejniczak

• Worldwide telecom spending was over $4 trillion in 2004, and virtually all 12 million businesses in the U.S. buy phone and other telecom services
• Our book shows people at small and medium-sized businesses how...

Skype for Dummies

by Loren Abdulezer, Susan Abdulezer & Howard Dammond

See how to use Skype for secure chats and connect SkypeOut and SkypeIN. Here's the fun and easy way (r) to understand all the hype about Skype and make this cool alternative communication system work for you!...

Fixed/Mobile Convergence and Beyond: Mobile Unified Communications

by Richard Watson

Mobile communications users are demanding increased reliability, functionality, and accessibility; they want "always on" access to voice, e-mail, text, and multimedia services as they roam from home to auto...

RF and Digital Signal Processing for Software-Defined Radio: A System-Analytic Approach

by Tony J. Rouphael

Understand the RF and Digital Signal Processing Principles Driving Software-defined Radios!

Software-defined radio (SDR) technology is a configurable, low cost, and power efficient solution for multimode and...

Fundamentals of WiMAX: Understanding Broadband Wireless Networking

by Jeffrey G Andrews, Arunabha Ghosh & Rias Muhamed

The Definitive Guide to WiMAX Technology

WiMAX is the most promising new technology for broadband wireless access to IP services. It can serve an extraordinary range of applications and environments: data, voice,...

Fixed/Mobile Convergence and Beyond: Unbounded Mobile Communications

by Richard Watson

Mobile communications users are demanding increased reliability, functionality, and accessibility; they want ""always on"" access to voice, e-mail, text, and multimedia services as they roam from home to auto...

The New Face of War: How War Will Be Fought in the 21st Century

by Bruce D. Berkowitz

As American and coalition troops fight the first battles of this new century -- from Afghanistan to Yemen to the Philippines to Iraq -- they do so in ways never before seen. Until recently, information war was...

Disneywar: The Battle for the Magic Kingdom

by James B. Stewart

"When You Wish Upon a Star," "Whistle While You Work," "The Happiest Place on Earth" -- these are lyrics indelibly linked to Disney, one of the most admired and best-known companies in the world. So when Roy...

MPLS Network Management: MIBs, Tools, and Techniques

by Thomas D. Nadeau

MPLS-enabled networks are enjoying tremendous growth, but practical information on managing MPLS-enabled networks has remained hard to find. Until now.

MPLS Network Management: MIBs, Tools, and Techniques is...

Video Coding for Mobile Communications: Efficiency, Complexity and Resilience

by Mohammed Al-Mualla, C. Nishan Canagarajah & David R. Bull

In order for wireless devices to function, the signals must be coded in standard ways so that the sender and the receiver can communicate. This area of video source coding is one of the key challenges in the...

Digital Home Networking

by Romain Carbou, Michel Diaz & Ernesto Exposito

This much-needed book describes the digital home networking environment, its techniques, and the challenges around its service architecture. It provides a broad introduction to state-of-the-art digital home...

Safety Management of Software-based Equipment

by Jean-Louis Boulanger

This practical work covers the principles of securization of software-based equipment. After covering the definition principles of security objectives, it goes on to demonstrate how it is possible to define...