PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, or PHP, is an open source programming
language that is used for developing interactive Web sites. More
specifi cally, PHP is a scripting language that is executed from a Web
server. Created in 1995, PHP is one of the fastest-growing programming
languages today. Th e TIOBE Programming Community Index1...
Gaining access to the interactive learning activities on this Online Companion is
easy—all you need to do is create a user profile. This simple, one-time process
establishes you as a user in the CoursePort authentication system. By utilizing the
Online Companion, students and instructors can reinforce the concepts they’re...
Currently the mobile wireless technology is experiencing rapid
growth. However the major challenge for deployment of this technology
with its special characteristics is securing the existing and future
vulnerabilities. Major security and privacy issues for standard wireless
networks include the authentication of wireless clients and...
Historically, computer security is related to both cryptography and access
control in operating systems. Cryptography, although mostly applied in
the military and diplomacy, was used to protect communication channels
and storage facilities (especially the backups). In the seventies there was a
breakthrough in cryptography - the...
PHP has changed the world: no other language has influenced and spurred web development
so strongly. From simple home pages to social software and business applications
to the largest global websites, PHP has played a leading role for years. Simultaneously,
Microsoft and its Windows operating system has made computers available to all...
MongoDB is an open source, non-relational database system designed to meet the needs
of modern Web 2.0 applications. It is currently being used by some of the most popular
websites in the world. This book introduces MongoDB to the web developer who has some
background building web applications using PHP. This book teaches what MongoDB...
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is a very different product from previous versions of the product. What once was a
simple offering that provided secure instant messaging with some web conferencing
capabilities has now evolved into a robust, flexible, sophisticated communications...
With the rapid increase of computational powers and availability of modern sensing, analysis
and rendering equipment and technologies, computers are becoming more and more intelligent.
Many research projects and commercial products have demonstrated the capability for a computer
to interact with human in a natural way by looking at...
Ubiquitous multimedia systems, or mobile multimedia systems, offer the promise of pervasive delivery of multimedia content to mobile users and their handheld devices.
Ubiquitous Multimedia and Mobile Agents: Models and Implementations provides the hybridization of two paradigms, namely, ubiquitous/mobile multimedia and mobile...
PhoneGap is a growing and leading open-source mobile web apps development framework that lets developers build JavaScript and HTML5-based web applications with native wrappers for more than six mobile platforms, including iOS, Android, and BlackBerry. This framework lets you build HTML- and JavaScript-based apps and still take advantage...
The Internet, as a worldwide communication network, has changed our daily life in
many ways. A new paradigm of commerce allows individuals to shop online. The
World Wide Web (WWW) allows people to share information. The E-mail technology
conned people in far-flung corners of the world. 'ITiis inevitable evolution has also cre-...
A number of crucial societal applications like international border crossing, electronic
commerce, and welfare disbursement require reliable person recognition systems.
Traditional person authentication methods based on passwords and identity
documents often fail to meet the stringent security and performance demands of
these...