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Chinese Firms and Technology in the Reform Eraby Yizheng Shi
RoutledgeCurzon 1998; US$ 195.00This book analyses the technological behaviour of state owned firms, especially how they have imported, utilised and assimilated foreign technology into their operations. It provides insights into China's rapidly developing economy. more...
Backfireby Peter Burrows
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003; US$ 34.95An insider's look at the internal turmoil at one of the world's premier high-tech companies This is the inside story of Hewlett-Packard Company's struggle to regain its former glory, and of the high-stakes battle between CEO Carly Fiorina and family scion Walter Hewlett over how best to achieve that goal. For decades, HP was admired not only for its innovative products and soaring stock price, but for its egalitarian corporate culture and father-knows-best integrity. Backfire explains how the company fell on hard times, recounts the historic decision that made Fiorina the world's top-ranking female executive, and brings to life the backlash that resulted when she tried to impose her charismatic salesmanship on the aging icon. Top BusinessWeek... more...
Bad Boy Ballmerby Fredric Alan Maxwell
HarperCollins US 2009; US$ 10.99The unauthorized biography of an immigrant's son whobecame a multibillionaire working for Bill Gates, and probably the highest-paid employee in American history. In January 2000, Bill Gates gave his vast responsibilities and title of Microsoft CEO to his best friend Steve Ballmer, a man relatively unknown to the public. Based on in-depth study and interviews with classmates and Microsoft insiders, Fredric Alan Maxwell vividly brings to life one of the technology industry's most colorful and controversial figures: Steven Anthony Ballmer. From Ballmer's relatively humble suburban Detroit beginnings (where he and his archrival Scott McNealy went to competing high schools) and his 1974 meeting with Gates in a Harvard dorm, Maxwell richly details... more...
m-Profitsby Tomi T. Ahonen
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2004; US$ 110.00UMTS as a technology allows for exciting new applications of some of the best ideas of services in the fixed telecoms, cellular/mobile telecoms, and internet environments, with many revolutionary new possibilities which simply do not exist in the current media and communications vehicles.The current worldwide interest in UMTS/3G is driven partly by the iminent roll-out of the new infrastructure during 2002/3. The general consensus in the telecoms industry is that that services will be driving this new UMTS/3G industry, and with no historical reference points, a large worldwide demand exists for this type of book. 'm-Profits: Making Money from 3G Servives' will discuss 3G services from the view of what is needed for the service to provide value... more...
Special Edition Using Oracle 11i, Adobe Readerby BOSS Corporation
Pearson Education 2006; US$ 60.00This is the eBook version of the printed book. The first part of Special Edition Using Oracle 11i introduces the Oracle ERP applications and R11i concepts. The reader is then educated on proven techniques for implementing these complex and integrated systems. Configuration and usage of each of the financial, distribution, manufacturing, HRMS, and projects applications are covered, followed by a discussion of working with Oracle Support, consulting firms, and compatible software vendors. The appendixes review the employment market, consulting opportunities, and provide the reader with an implementation checklist. All of R11i's new features are covered in-depth and in practical terms. Not only will readers understand Oracle's new capabilities,... more...
There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhereby Kara Swisher
Crown Publishing Group 2003; US$ 11.99“AOL had found itself at the edge of disaster so frequently that one of its first executives, a brassy Vietnam veteran and restaurateur named Jim Kimsey, had taken the punch line of an old joke popularized by Ronald Reagan and made it into an unlikely mantra for the company. It concerned a very optimistic young boy who happened upon a huge pile of horse manure and began digging excitedly. When someone asked him what he was doing covered in muck, the foolish boy answered brightly, ‘There must be a pony in here somewhere!’” —From the Prologue If you’re wondering what happened after “a company without assets acquired a company without a clue,” as Kara Swisher wryly writes, it’s time to crack... more...
Offshoring Information Technologyby Erran Carmel; Paul Tjia
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 61.00This book explains everything you need to know to put IT offshoring (outsourcing overseas) into practice, avoid cultural and political pitfalls and develop effective working relationships. Written for CTOs, CIOs, consultants and other IT executives, this book is also an excellent introduction to outsourcing for business and MIS students. more...
Dreaming in Codeby Scott Rosenberg
Crown Publishing Group 2007; US$ 11.99Their story takes us through a maze of dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they and their colleagues wrestle not only with the abstraction of code but with the unpredictability of human behavior, especially their own. Along the way, we encounter black holes, turtles, snakes, dragons, axe-sharpening, and yak-shaving—and take a guided tour through the theories and methods, both brilliant and misguided, that litter the history of software development, from the famous “mythical man-month” to Extreme Programming. Not just for technophiles but for anyone captivated by the drama of invention, Dreaming in Code offers a window into both the information age and the workings of the human mind. From the Hardcover edition.... more...
How We Got Hereby Andy Kessler
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 10.99Best-selling author Andy Kessler ties up the loose ends from his provocative book, Running Money , with this history of breakthrough technology and the markets that funded them. Expanding on themes first raised in his tour de force, Running Money , Andy Kessler unpacks the entire history of Silicon Valley and Wall Street, from the Industrial Revolution to computers, communications, money, gold and stock markets. These stories cut (by an unscrupulous editor) from the original manuscript were intended as a primer on the ways in which new technologies develop from unprofitable curiosities to essential investments. Indeed, How We Got Here is the book Kessler wishes someone had handed him on his first day as a freshman engineering student... more...
Japan's Software Factoriesby Michael A. Cusumano
Oxford University Press 1991; US$ 170.00Analyzes a number of Japanese computer manufacturers and their efforts to compete successfully with US software companies. The text explores the concept of Japanese "software factories", in which large numbers of people are engaged in developing computer software in co-operative ways. more...









