Subsequent to the mathematical theory of electromagnetic waves formulated by James Clerk Maxwell in 1873 [3] and the demonstration of the existence of these waves by Heinrich Hertz in 1887, Guglielmo Marconi made history by using radio waves for transat- lantic wireless communications in 1901. In 1906, amplitude modulation (AM) radio was invented by Reginald Fessenden for music broadcasting. In…
At the end of his review of my first book, Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, David Pogue, a brilliant writer and author of countless technical and computer-related texts, wrote this: Unlike actual law, Internet software has no capacity to punish. It doesn’t affect people who aren’t online (and only a tiny minority of the world population is). And if you don’t like the Internet’s syste…
Telecommunication Services offerings for Business Use. An Enterprise Model for Orgainzing Telecommunications Companies growth strategies for Telecommunications Operators.
When I first became interested in research into one particular form of African oral literature in 1961, I found to my surprise that there was no easily accessible work to which I could turn to give me some idea of what was known in this field, the various publications available, or the controversies and problems that demanded further investigation. In fact, I gradually discovered, there was an …
From the invention of the first telecommunication systems (i.e., telegraph and telephone networks) the importance of these technologies has been clearly evident. Humans need continuously to interact; the exchange of information of different types at distance is today essential. Telecommunications favor the development of countries and the diffusion of knowledge, and they are playing and will p…
This study examines if Facebook, one of the most popular social network sites among college students in the U.S., is related to attitudes and behaviors that enhance individuals’ social capital. Using data from a random web survey of college students across Texas (n = 2,603), we find positive relationships between intensity of Facebook use and students’ life satisfaction, social trust, civi…
Telecommunications has been defined as a technology concerned with communicating from a distance, and we can categorize it in various ways. Figure 1.1 shows one possible view of the different sections of telecommuni- cations. It includes mechanical communication and electrical communica- tion because telecommunications has evolved from a mechanical to an electrical form using increasingly more …
Multimedia – an interactive presentation of speech, audio, video, graphics, and text, has become a major theme in today’s information technology that merges the practices of commications, computing, and information processing into an interdisciplinary field. In recent years, there has been a tremendous amount of activity in the area of multimedia communications: applications, middleware, a…
(Abstract Syntax Notation One) is an international standard which aims at specifying of data used in telecommunication protocols. It is a computing language that is both powerful and complex: it was designed for modeling efficiently communications between heterogeneous systems. ASN.1 was in great need of a reference book, didactic as well as precise and Olivier Dubuisson’s book meets these de…
“Big Data” [1] refers to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of typical database software tools to capture, store, manage, and analyze. There is a convergence of communications, sensing and computing towards the objective of achieving some control. In particular, cloud computing is promising. Sensors become cheaper. A network becomes bigger. In particular, powered by Internet protocol…
Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), alongside Windows Workflow Foun- dation (WF) and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), has become part of the primary framework for building the next wave of business applications for the Microsoft Windows operating system . WCF provides the underpinning technology driving distributed solutions based on the Microsoft platform; with it, you can …
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the information and communication technology (ICT) industries play a crucial role in the new economy. Most SMEs operate in a fiercely competitive environment; as such, it is important to optimize business practices. It is believed that performance measurement (PM) tools can help to identify weaknesses, clarify objectives and strategies, and improve…
The most familiar aspect of mobile computing technology is the hand phone. About two decades ago, a hand phone was bulky and was only used for voice communication. It was merely an extension of the fixed line telephony that allowed users to keep in touch with colleagues. Now the hand phone is not only used for voice communication, it is also used to send text and multimedia messages. Future mob…
Jean-Paul Sartre’s The Transcendence of the Ego (hereafter TE) first appeared as an article in the French academic journal, Recherches Philosophiques in 1937. It was among Sartre’s first philosophical publications, the outcome of a period of intense critical engagement with the phenomenological philosophy of Edmund Husserl (1859–1938). Sartre had become interested in phenomenology earlier…
The papers in this volume are collected from speakers at a forum held on Capitol Hill entitled Broadband Technology Forum: The Future Of The Internet In The Broadband Age.1 All of the speakers are active in the public policy debates, regulatory proceedings and court cases that have been defining the contours of the next generation of the Internet. The purpose of the forum was to engage staffe…
At a roller rink, you can see something that holds insights into great questions of politics and society. At a roller rink you see 100 people skating—but wait!— Rather than imagine what you know happens at a roller rink, imagine that you have never seen or heard of a roller rink. Nor an ice skating rink. Long ago, people didn’t know anything of skating. Imagine yourself one of them. Ima…
The book combines both interesting areas; business, and technology, into one single literature. The reader will get to know all important key areas of unified communications technologies: How to evaluate and integrate unified communications project in your own company or for your customer, how you select the right solution, how you plan, design, and implement the technology itself, and also how…
This book is dedicated to Mirjaliisa Charles. Its content is related to the research fields she has been involved in over the years, but in particular, the book focuses on the field in which she has done pioneering work over the past ten years: International Business Communication (IBC). The authors of the book are Mirjaliisa’s research fellows, colleagues and doctoral students from all over …
When, on 7 April, people around the world commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide, that observance should be fi lled not only with remorse, but with resolve. We must remember the victims – the hundreds of thousands of men, women and children abandoned to systematic slaughter while the world, which had the capacity to save most of them, failed to save more than a handful, …
Our experience of health and illness is shaped by our personal background, social networks, cultural context, and community affiliations. We undertook this edited volume because we believe communication processes are a link between personal, social, cultural, and institutional factors and various fac- ets of health and illness. For example, social networks and the social support they can prov…
This book is about a process that takes place between a mother, a father and a young baby. It attempts to understand how relationships grow, and discusses what happens in our earliest months when as new human beings we attempt to come to grips with the world around us. It is also about how we come to form attachments or turn away from them, are disappointed or curious, and why this is so. What …
The past 25 years have seen a major paradigm shift in the field of violence prevention, from the assumption that violence is inevitable to a recognition that violence is preventable. As evidence-based interventions increasingly demonstrate measurable impacts on the prevalence of violence, those who work in the field of violence prevention face the challenge of finding new ways to disseminate in…
This resource has been compiled to give a general introduction to effective communication for practice educators. In the first section, the key components of the communication process will be discussed. The basic skills required for effective communication will be explored in the next few sections, and some specific contexts for communication, including giving presentations and feedback meet…
The National Food Service Management Institute developed this series of modules on human resource management to meet a need for relevant materials that would provide directors and supervisors the tools to teach managers effective management skills. Learning to work with and lead employees is a never-ending journey. These materials were designed to assist the learner in developing effective p…
Some great pundit once remarked, "Every time has its technology, and every technology has its time." Although this is a somewhat simplistic view of technology, it is indeed true that when one thinks of a time period (especially in modern times) one always associates with it the key technologies that "revolutionized" the way people lived then. For example, key technologies that "came of age" in …