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Encyclopedia of Mobile Computing and Commerce

IGI Global, 2007

Nowadays, mobile communication, mobile devices, and mobile computing are widely available. Everywhere people are carrying mobile devices, such as mobile phones. The availability of mobile communication networks has made a huge impact to various applications, including commerce. Consequently, there is a strong relationship between mobile computing...

Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit, 2nd Edition

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2007

The NIST estimates that poor testing costs the US economy $60 billion annually. This book gives teams straightforward and proven ways to introduce unit testing into their process, resulting in higher quality and fewer bugs.

All over the world, software teams are using unit testing both to verify their code and as a way of helping them design...

Desktop Encyclopedia of Voice and Data in Networking

McGraw-Hill, 1999

The telecommunications industry is changing rapidly in its quest to converge voice and data on high-performance multiservice networks that are designed to meet virtually any business and consumer need. These nextgeneration networks are being driven as much by the revenue-generating potential of new integrated applications as they are by the...

Hacking exposed web applications, 3rd Edition

McGraw-Hill, 2010

There is no escaping the reality that businesses live on the Web today. From banks to bookstores, from auctions to games, the Web is the place where most businesses ply their trade. For consumers, the Web has become the place where they do the majority of their business as well. For example, nearly 50 percent of all retail music sales in the...

Everyday Information: The Evolution of Information Seeking in America (MIT Press)

MIT Press, 2011

All day, every day, Americans seek information. We research major purchases. We check news and sports. We visit government Web sites for public information and turn to friends for advice about our everyday lives. Although the Internet influences our information-seeking behavior, we gather information from many sources: family and friends,...

Social Evolution, Political Psychology, and the Media in Democracy: The Invisible Hand in the U.S. Marketplace of Ideas

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book analyzes why we believe what we believe about politics, and how the answer affects the way democracy functions. It does so by applying social evolution theory to the relationship between the news media and politics, using the United States as its primary example. This includes a critical review and integration of...

International Economics: Theory and Policy (International Edition)

Addison Wesley, 2002

At the start of the twenty-first century, international aspects of economics remain as important and controversial as ever. In the last decade alone, major currency and Financial crises have rocked industrializing countries from East Asia to Latin America; countries in Europe have given up their national currencies in favor of a common currency,...

The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's Economic Future

MIT Press, 2004

In 2030, as 77 million baby boomers hobble into old age, walkers will outnumber strollers; there will be twice as many retirees as there are today but only 18 percent more workers. How will America handle this demographic overload? How will Social Security and Medicare function with fewer working taxpayers to support these programs? According to...

Innovate or Perish: Managing the Enduring Technology Company in the Global Market

John Wiley & Sons, 2006

Essential reading for IP managers and corporate executives, Innovate or Perish is a new road map equipping readers with the principles and tools needed for their companies to compete in the emerging creativity economy. Edited by Edward Kahn, this seminal book includes contributions from seasoned intellectual property (IP)...

The Software License Unveiled: How Legislation by License Controls Software Access

Oxford University Press, 2009

Millions of computer users regularly bind themselves to software license terms with the click of a mouse, usually without reading anything but the word "agree." Licenses for software as diverse as Microsoft Windows and Linux, and terms of use for websites such as Facebook, are all subject not only to intellectual property and...

Handbook of Fruits and Fruit Processing

John Wiley & Sons, 2012

Fruits are botanically diverse, perishable, seasonal and predominantly regional in production. They come in many varieties, shapes and size, colors, flavors and textures and are an important part of a healthy diet and the global economy. Besides vitamins, minerals, fibers and other nutrients, fruits contain phenolic compounds that have...

Globalization and Health: Challenges for health law and bioethics (International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine)

Springer, 2006

Within contemporary society, globalization has emerged as a key concern at the centre of ethical, legal and policy debates relating to health care. Conflicts between public interests and individual rights, the challenge of regulating health professionals and access to health services, and the effects of a global market all feature prominently...

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