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Delivering Internet Connections over Cableby Mark E. Laubach; David J. Farber; Stephen D. Dukes
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 44.95An inside look at high-speed access written for the cable industry Cable modems have emerged as a leading consumer choice for high-speed Internet access, outpacing alternatives such as digital subscriber lines, but not without raising issues about quality of service and controversy about open access. Providing an objective review of residential broadband and cable television networking, this book will be of great use for professionals who are integrating cable into their networks or service offerings. The authors compare cable access systems to competing technologies and discuss the increasingly difficult issues confronting each. Readers will also find coverage of the hottest areas in the field including high-speed data and packet voice standards,... more...
M2M: The Wireless Revolutionby Jim Brodie Brazell; Laurel Donoho; John Dexheimer
TSTC Publishing 2005; US$ 25.00What is M2M? M2M is an acronym for the term "Machine-to-Machine" and the birth of a 4th generation of computing. M2M is a category of information and communication technology that combines communications, computer, and power technologies to enable remote human and machine interaction with physical, chemical, and biological systems and processes. more...
First Stepsby Robert Loftin
Springer 2007; US$ 19.99"First Steps: Developing BizTalk Applications" is a primer to most other introductory BizTalk books. If you feel like traditional beginning books are too abstract, and that you are mired in detail and missing the "big picture," check out this book. It's not a reference &emdash; it's a jumpstart to learning BizTalk. You learn about the product in a phased approach. This way, you learn just what you need to know, when you need to know it. And the entire book is example-based: you learn by doing. Each phase provides detailed instructions for creating, deploying, and testing a BizTalk project. Through the book's projects, you will be exposed to orchestrations, pipelines, maps, schemas, messages, ports, shapes, the... more...
Pro Mapping in BizTalk Server 2009by J. Dawson; J. Wainwright
Springer 2009; US$ 49.99Learn good map design techniques for BizTalk Server and you will make huge differences to the processing speed of your implementation, as well as to the scalability and maintainability of your code. Regardless of your experience, expert authors Jim Dawson and John Wainwright ensure you make the right choices to reap the rewards and avoid the potential penalties of poor design. Pro Mapping in BizTalk Server 2009 provides in depth coverage of all aspects of mapping to enable you to quickly and efficiently incorporate logic that will fulfill your mapping requirements. While the mapping techniques will be useful for all versions of BizTalk Server, the code is tailored toward BizTalk Server 2006 R3 and demonstrates the latest approaches to standard... more...
Pro RFID in BizTalk Server 2009by Mark Beckner; M. Simms; R. Ventatesh
Springer 2009; US$ 49.99The market for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is expanding rapidly, constituting billions of dollars annually. As more organisations adopt RFID solutions and related equipment, the need to route, map, and execute workflows based on RFID data grows exponentially. Microsoft s solution to this demand is BizTalk RFID, an application built to distribute, track, analyse, and provide visibility into enterprise data collected using RFID technologies. To aid in the rapid understanding and adoption of BizTalk RFID, this book s authors have joined together to present the definitive resource for unlocking the potential of the application. With extensive code and configuration examples and multiple case studies illustrating how this application... more...
Offset Reduction Techniques in Highspeed Analog-to-Digital Convertersby Pedro M. Figueiredo; Joao C. Vital
Springer 2009; US$ 139.00Analyzes, describes the design, and presents test results of Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) employing the three main high-speed architectures: flash, two-step flash and folding and interpolation. This title reviews the advantages and limitations of each one, and discusses the techniques employed to improve their performance. more...
Dynamic Offset Compensated CMOS Amplifiersby Johan F. Witte; Kofi A. A. Makinwa; Johan H. Huijsing
Springer 2009; US$ 159.00Describes the theory, design and realization of dynamic offset compensated CMOS amplifiers. This book focuses on the design of general-purpose broadband operational amplifiers and instrumentation amplifiers. more...
XSLT Cookbookby Sal Mangano
O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2008; US$ 43.99Forget those funky robot toys that were all the rage in the '80s, XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Transformations) is the ultimate transformer. This powerful language is expert at transforming XML documents into PDF files, HTML documents, JPEG files--virtually anything your heart desires. As useful as XSLT is, though, most people have a difficult time learning its many peculiarities. And now Version 2.0, while elegant and powerful, has only added to the confusion. XSLT Cookbook, Second Edition wants to set the record straight. It helps you sharpen your programming skills and overall understanding of XSLT through a collection of detailed recipes. Each recipe breaks down a specific problem into manageable chunks, giving you an easy-to-grasp... more...
iPhone Open Application Developmentby Jonathan Zdziarski
O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2008; US$ 31.99"Great for beginners -- even if you don't know object-oriented programming, you can learn from examples on the 'Net and be on your way very soon. You will be able to confidently build apps that rival the ones included by Apple itself." -- Josh Content, iPhone Developer Developers everywhere are eager to create applications for the iPhone, and many of them prefer the open source, community-developed tool chain to Apple's own toolkit. In this new edition of iPhone Open Application Development , author Jonathan Zdziarski covers the latest version of the open toolkit -- now updated for Apple's iPhone 2.x software and iPhone 3G -- and explains in clear language how to create applications using Objective-C and the iPhone API. Zdziarski,... more...
Taxation and Electronic Commerceby OECD Publishing
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2001; US$ 109.00How should governments tax e-commerce? What does e-commerce mean for existing international tax principles and systems? What are the administrative challenges of taxing e-commerce, and how can these be tackled? How can governments harness the new technology to improve taxpayer service and reduce compliance costs? These are just some of the pressing questions addressed in this book. This volume provides a comprehensive guide to the status of the OECD-led international work on these questions, and hence to emerging conclusions and recommendations across a wide span of tax policy and tax administration issues. It sets out the latest thinking of the OECD's Committee on Fiscal Affairs on the taxation aspects of electronic commerce, and on progress... more...









