This volume presents proceedings from the 19th IFIP World Computer Congress in Santiago, Chile. The proceedings of the World Computer Congress are a product of the gathering of 2,000 delegates from more than 70 countries to discuss a myriad of topics in the ICT domain. Of particular note, this marks the first time that a World Computer Congress has...
The worldwide popularisation of mobile communication technologies and the increasing awareness of usability issues since 1990’s have been urging map designers to specialise and extend cartographic semiotics, visualisation styles and map use techniques for mobile contexts and small display devices. As a follow-up to the first book...
An updated and expanded Second Edition of the popular guide to social media for the business community
Marketers must look to the Web for new ways of finding customers and communicating with them, rather than at them. From Facebook and YouTube to blogs and Twitter-ing, social media on the Internet is the most promising new way to...
This book is intended for individuals who are interested in the iPhone and other
iOS devices and, more importantly, in the type of data that is stored and can be
recovered from these devices. The demand for mobile forensics has grown tremendously
with the release of smart phones. Communication on these devices is now
documented...
Welcome to ActionScript. Over the next several chapters, you’ll be introduced to one of the most versatile programming languages to create web applications for the browser, desktop applications, and mobile apps for multiple platforms. For years the Flash Platform has provided people with the most powerful set of...
Put everthing you need to know about HTML & XHTML at your fingertips. For nearly a decade, hundreds of thousands of web developers have turned to HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide to master standards-based web development. Truly a definitive guide, the book combines a unique balance of...
Programming Symbian OS is a key skill for mass market phone application development. Whether you are developing a services for shipping mobile phones, or involved in pre-market mobile phone development, this book will help you unde fundamental theory behind developing Symbian OS C++ code for constrained devices.
The emergence of Enterprise services has triggered a major paradigm shift in distributed computing: from Object-Oriented Architecture (OOA) to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). As the need grows to incorporate and exchange information across wire-line and wireless networks, so grows the necessity to establish an infrastructure for...
What people are saying about Building iPhone Apps w/ HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
"The future of mobile development is clearly web technologies like CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Jonathan Stark shows you how to leverage your existing web development skills to build native iPhone applications using these...
Android is one of the major players in the mobile phone market, and its market share is
continuously growing. Android is the first complete, open, and free mobile platform, and it offers
endless opportunities for mobile application developers. As with all other platforms, having a
robust and flexible development environment is the...
Geospatial mapping applications have become hugely popular in recent years. With smart-phone and tablet numbers snow-balling this trend looks set to continue well into the future. Indeed, it is true to say that in today’s mobile world location-aware apps are becoming the norm rather than the exception.