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Worldwide telecom spending was over $4 trillion in 2004, and virtually all 12 million businesses in the U.S. buy phone and other telecom servicesOur book shows people at small and medium-sized businesses how to make sense of telecom lingo and get the best dealsIncludes an overview of the major players in the telecom industry and an easy-to-understand explanation of the existing telecom infrastructureHelps people pinpoint the telecom services best suited to their business needs, understand billing, and troubleshoot problemsCovers emerging industry trends, such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and how they can help businesses cut costs...

This fully updated second volume of the highly successful WWRF Book of Visions is a unique and timely book, presenting up-to-the-minute ideas and trends in mobile communications. This is a comprehensive single point of reference, focusing on the specifications and requirements of 4G and identifying potential business models, the research areas and required spectrum and enabling technologies.Comprising material from White Papers edited within the working expert groups as well as those from the Vision Committee of WWRF, a top-down approach has been adopted starting from perceived users requirements and their expectations in the Future Wireless World....

A broad overview of the home networking field, ranging from wireless technologies to practical applicationsIn the future, it is expected that private networks (e.g., home networks) will become part of the global network ecosystem, participating in sharing their own content, running IP-based services, and possibly becoming service providers themselves. This is already happening in the so-called "social networks" and peer-to-peer file sharing networks on the Internetmaking this emerging topic one of the most active research areas in the wireless communications field.This book bridges the gap between wireless networking and service research communities, which, until now, have confined their work to their respective fields. Here, a number of in...

The mechanics of Web design made easy for visual learnersAn effective Web site combines good graphic design principles with a functional user interface. This colorful, step-by-step guide shows visual learners how to plan, develop, and publish a site, all with easy-to-follow lessons. Each task is illustrated with screen shots accompanied by numbered steps. You'll learn all the tools and techniques for creating great-looking Web sites that users will love.Good Web design incorporates basic graphic design principles as well as the techniques required to make a site easy to navigate and user-friendlyThose who learn best when someone shows them how will quickly get up to speed with the full-color screen shots and step-by-step illustrations in this visual ...

If you prefer instructions that show you how to do something and skip the long-winded explanations, then this book is for you. You?ll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 160 MacBook tasks. Each task-based spread includes easy, visual directions for performing necessary operations, including using the Dock and Dashboard, managing Expos? and Spaces, video chatting with iChat, and creating albums and photos in iPhoto. Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task so that you can get started using your MacBook today....