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Classic Home Video Games, 1985-1988: A Complete Reference Guide

McFarland, 2009

More than any other companies in the history of electronic gaming, Nintendo, Sega, and later Sony established video games as a lifestyle, a hobby that would endure beyond the “video game craze” of the ’70s. Following the Great Implosion of ’83, as the Age of Atari crumbled, game console and software sales tanked and...

Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter)

New Riders Publishing, 2009

It’s hard to recall, now, the world that greeted the fi rst edition of this book upon its publication seven years ago. The world has changed, of course, but perhaps more signifi cantly, information architecture itself, and its place within that world, has changed even more.

At that time, some pronounced information architecture a...

Telebomb: The Truth Behind The $500-Billion Telecom Bust And What The Industry Must Do To Recover

AMACOM, 2005

The notorious dot-com crash was heavily covered by the press, but a larger
revolution was going on at the same time in the telecommunications industry
and it received comparatively little attention. The telecommunications
revolution followed a similar trajectory to the dot-com boom and bust, but
it wasted more investor dollars...

The Great Telecom Meltdown

Artech House Publishers, 2005

The economic boom of the late 1990s included huge investments in the telecommunications
industry and related sectors. It was followed by a downturn of
unusual severity, which reduced total paper wealth by trillions of dollars, cost
many thousands of jobs, and saw some of the biggest bankruptcies in history.
While there certainly...

101 Ways to Promote Your Web Site: Filled with Proven Internet Marketing Tips, Tools, Techniques, and Resources to Increase Your Web Site Traffic

Maximum Press, 2004

The key to a web site’s success is its ability to entice surfers to stop at that site, absorb what it offers, and return at a later date. This guide provides tools such as templates, checklists, and forms as well as proven techniques such as using e-mail, links, and online advertising to increase the number of initial users and repeat...

Diamonds Are Forever, Computers Are Not: Economic and Strategic Management in Computing Markets

Imperial College Press, 2004

This is a collection of 43 essays about the economics and management of information technology markets. The first part of the book focuses on events, notable birth dates and longstanding trends. The unifying theme revolves around the role of human economic behavior in the face of...

Code Leader: Using People, Tools, and Processes to Build Successful Software (Programmer to Programmer)

Wrox Press, 2008

Code Leader: Using People, Tools, and Processes to Build Successful Software

"Patrick is a pragmatist with a purist's knowledge. He has a deep understanding of what 'smells' right, and he knows when and how to find the right balance to get the job done. This philosophy of balanced 'pure pragmatism' pervades this book...

The Board Game: A Director's Companion for Winning in Business

John Wiley & Sons, 2003

The corporate board game is complex and fraught with dangers for the unwary. In this practical look at life at the top of the organisational tree, Peter Waine distils his many years experience and exclusive access to leading board directors into a biting exposé of how company decisions are really made and executed. The Board Game offers...

IP Networking over Next-Generation Satellite Systems: International Workshop, Budapest, July 2007

Springer, 2007

With the boom of Internet, IP-based applications, such as WWW and multimedia, bave been an essential part of our life, and there is an ever-increasing demand for accessing high-speed Internet services anywhere and anytime. This trend unavoidably has huge impacts on the design of the next-generation satellite systems. On the other hand, with its...

The Radio Station, Seventh Edition: Broadcast, Satellite & Internet

Focal Press, 2006

Keith's masterful updated survey of what has changed and what remains the same in the dynamic audio industry.
- Christopher Sterling,
George Washington University

The bible for beginning radio professionals. A complete guide to the internal workings of radio stations and the radio industry. The book is now a...

Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art (Foundation)

Friends of Ed, 2007

If you're interested in creating cutting-edge code-based art and animations, you've come to the right place! Processing (available at www.processing.org) is a revolutionary open source programming language and environment designed to bridge the gap between programming and art, allowing non-programmers to learn programming fundamentals as easily as...

MPLS Fundamentals

Cisco Press, 2006

As an escalation engineer, I experienced the boom of Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) networking first hand. I saw the first trials of MPLS in service provider networks and saw MPLS successfully expanding further into enterprise networks. In addition, I witnessed new MPLS technologies coming into existence, which the networking industry...

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