Congratulations on your new Droid smartphone! You’re going to be amazed when you discover all the ways it enables you to connect with your contacts and stay in touch with the world. You can communicate via talk, text, email, social networking, and chatting with instant messaging, and on some newer Droid phones, you may even be able to...
The world's first public GSM call was made on 1st July 1991 in a city park of Helsinki,
Finland. That event is now regarded as the birthday of the second generation mobile telephony.
GSM has been an overwhelming success, which was difficult to predict at that early
stage. In the past 10 years GSM has become a truly global...
Embedded systems are usually part of larger and complex systems and are usually
implemented on dedicated hardware with associated software to form a computational
engine that will effi ciently perform a specifi c function. The dedicated hardware
(or embedded processor) with the associated software is embedded into many...
Ubiquitous computing names the third wave in computing, where the personal computing
era appears when technology recedes into the background of our lives. The widespread use
of new mobile technology implementing wireless communications such as personal digital
assistants (PDAs) and smart phones enables a new type of advanced...
The emergence and deployment of new digital communication technologies (3G
mobile networks, digital television, xDSL, home automation networks, etc.) has
led to a gradual increase in speed while a steady decline in prices at Internet connections.
Moreover, since much longer ago, the continuing advances in electronic
technology...
Android phones are a great platform for developing apps, but sometimes it is nice if those apps go beyond the built-in hardware of the phone and connect to some homemade electronics.
The IOIO board allows you to do just that, and this book will show you how to use the IOIO board and interface it to various different...
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is Microsoft’s first cloud-ready information platform. It gives organizations effective tools to protect, unlock, and scale the power of their data, and it works across a variety of devices and data sources, from desktops, phones, and tablets, to datacenters and both private and public clouds. Our purpose in...
The smart phone is increasingly important in people’s daily lives. It is used for a wide variety of
tasks, both work-related and non-work related. People use smart phones to keep up to date
with friends and family, for relaxation, and for entertainment, as well as for viewing documents and
spreadsheets,...
This book is now in its fifth edition. Each edition has corresponded to a different phase in the way computer networks were used. When the first edition appeared in 1980, networks were an academic curiosity. When the second edition appeared in 1988, networks were used by universities and large businesses. When the third edition appeared in...
Solve a wide range of problems in your web application quickly and efficiently with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI). With this definitive, getting-started guide to version 3 of the popular open source JavaScript library, you’ll learn how to address many of the most common and challenging problems that web development...
As a graduate student at Ohio State in the mid-1970s, I inherited a unique computer
vision laboratory from the doctoral research of previous students. They had
designed and built an early frame-grabber to deliver digitized color video from a
(very large) electronic video camera on a tripod to a mini-computer (sic) with a...
Android quickly became almost ubiquitous. With the world transitioning from feature phones to
smartphones, and then discovering that tablets are, after all, devices we can hardly live without,
application developers today have a choice between mostly two platforms: Android and iOS.
Android lowered, some may even say broke, the...
