Books in Internet and web technology

71-80 of 169 results in All results

The Internet and Mobile Technology

• 1st Edition
• Volume 81
• March 9, 2011
• Marvin Zelkowitz
• English
• eBook 978-0-12-385515-2

  9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 8 5 5 1 5 - 2

This series, since its first volume in 1960 and now the oldest series still being published, covers new developments in computer technology. Each volume contains from 5 to 7 chapters and 3 volumes are produced annually. Most chapters present an overview of a current subfield within computer science, include many citations, and often new developments in the field by the authors of the individual chapters. Topics include hardware, software, web technology, communications, theoretical underpinnings of computing, and novel applications of computers. The book series is a valuable addition to university courses that emphasize the topics under discussion in that particular volume as well as belonging on the bookshelf of industrial practitioners who need to implement many of the technologies that are described.

Web Application Obfuscation

• 1st Edition
• December 10, 2010
• Mario Heiderich + 3 more
• English
• Paperback 978-1-59749-604-9

  9 7 8 - 1 - 5 9 7 4 9 - 6 0 4 - 9
• eBook 978-1-59749-605-6

  9 7 8 - 1 - 5 9 7 4 9 - 6 0 5 - 6

Web applications are used every day by millions of users, which is why they are one of the most popular vectors for attackers. Obfuscation of code has allowed hackers to take one attack and create hundreds-if not millions-of variants that can evade your security measures. Web Application Obfuscation takes a look at common Web infrastructure and security controls from an attacker's perspective, allowing the reader to understand the shortcomings of their security systems. Find out how an attacker would bypass different types of security controls, how these very security controls introduce new types of vulnerabilities, and how to avoid common pitfalls in order to strengthen your defenses.

E-books in Academic Libraries

• 1st Edition
• December 8, 2010
• Ksenija Mincic-Obradovic
• English
• Paperback 978-1-84334-586-2

  9 7 8 - 1 - 8 4 3 3 4 - 5 8 6 - 2
• eBook 978-1-78063-050-2

  9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 0 5 0 - 2

Written from the perspective of a librarian, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the impact of e-books on academic libraries. The author discusses advantages to both researchers and librarians and provides current examples of innovative uses of e-books in academic contexts. This book reviews the current situation in e-book publishing, and describes problems in managing e-books in libraries caused by the variety of purchase models and varying formats available, and the lack of standardisation. It discusses solutions for providing access and maintaining bibliographic control, looks at various initiatives to publicise and promote e-books, and compares e-book usage surveys to track changes in user preferences and behaviour over the last decade. E-books have already had a huge impact on academic libraries, and major advances in technology will bring further changes. There is a need for collaboration between libraries and publishers. The book concludes with reflections on the future of e-books in academic libraries.

News Search, Blogs and Feeds

• 1st Edition
• September 27, 2010
• Lars Vage + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-1-84334-602-9

  9 7 8 - 1 - 8 4 3 3 4 - 6 0 2 - 9
• eBook 978-1-78063-181-3

  9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 1 8 1 - 3

This book is about news search and monitoring. Aimed at professionals with a strategic need of monitoring the surrounding world, users with a need to find the best news sources, monitoring services and news search strategies and techniques will benefit from reading this book. The main purpose is to present a practical handbook with an analysis of readily available tools, blending with passages of a theoretical nature. It is also useful for students at LIS programmes and related information programmes and for librarians and information professionals. The authors aim to aid the reader in reaching a greater understanding of the core in news search and monitoring.

Television Versus the Internet

• 1st Edition
• September 1, 2010
• Barrie Gunter
• English
• eBook 978-1-78063-166-0

  9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 1 6 6 - 0

This book will explore the questions raised by the technological developments that have encouraged the multiplication of TV channels. TV is moving through a period of rapid change. Governments around the world are switching from analogue to digital forms of transmission to further expand the amount of content that TV signals can carry. At the same time, competition for eyeballs has also grown from outside that traditional marketplace with the emergence of the Internet. The roll-out of broadband and increased bandwidth has had the greatest impact on television because online technology can readily convey the same content. All these changes have created a great deal more competition for viewers within the traditional TV marketplace. The Internet has proven to be especially popular with young people who have adopted its applications to a far greater extent than their elders, though even the latter have now begun to take up online activities in significant numbers. Are these audiences the same? Do people make a choice between these two media or do they use them both at different times and for different reasons? Can television utilise the Internet in profitable ways to enhance its market position? Will television have to evolve from its current state to provide the kinds of content reception services to which people have become accustomed in the online world? If it does need to change to survive, will this nevertheless mean a radical new configuration of content and the disappearance of ‘channels’ with fixed, pre-determined programme schedules?

Smart Things

• 1st Edition
• August 26, 2010
• Mike Kuniavsky
• English
• Paperback 978-0-12-374899-7

  9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 7 4 8 9 9 - 7
• eBook 978-0-08-095408-0

  9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 5 4 0 8 - 0

The world of smart shoes, appliances, and phones is already here, but the practice of user experience (UX) design for ubiquitous computing is still relatively new. Design companies like IDEO and frogdesign are regularly asked to design products that unify software interaction, device design and service design -- which are all the key components of ubiquitous computing UX -- and practicing designers need a way to tackle practical challenges of design. Theory is not enough for them -- luckily the industry is now mature enough to have tried and tested best practices and case studies from the field. Smart Things presents a problem-solving approach to addressing designers' needs and concentrates on process, rather than technological detail, to keep from being quickly outdated. It pays close attention to the capabilities and limitations of the medium in question and discusses the tradeoffs and challenges of design in a commercial environment. Divided into two sections, frameworks and techniques, the book discusses broad design methods and case studies that reflect key aspects of these approaches. The book then presents a set of techniques highly valuable to a practicing designer. It is intentionally not a comprehensive tutorial of user-centered design'as that is covered in many other books'but it is a handful of techniques useful when designing ubiquitous computing user experiences. In short, Smart Things gives its readers both the "why" of this kind of design and the "how," in well-defined chunks.

The Host in the Machine

• 1st Edition
• July 27, 2010
• Angela Thomas-Jones
• English
• Paperback 978-1-84334-588-6

  9 7 8 - 1 - 8 4 3 3 4 - 5 8 8 - 6
• eBook 978-1-78063-184-4

  9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 1 8 4 - 4

This book tackles online social networks by navigating these systems from the birth to the death of their digital presence. Navigating the social within the digital can be a contentious undertaking, as social networks confuse the boundary between offline and online relationships. These systems work to bring people together in an online environment, yet participation can dislocate users from other relationships and deviant ‘online’ behaviour can create ‘offline’ issues. The author begins by examining the creation of a digital presence in online networks popularized by websites such as Facebook and MySpace. The book explores how the digital presence influences how social, cultural and professional relationships are discovered, forged, maintained and broken, and journeys through the popular criticisms of social networking such as employee time-wasting, bullying, stalking, the alleged links between social networks and suicide and the decline of a user’s public image. Social networks are often treated as morally ambiguous spaces, which highlights a dissonance between digital and social literacies. This discord is approached through an exploration of the everyday undercurrents present in social networks. The discussion of the digital presence ends by addressing the intricacies of becoming ‘digitally dead’, which explores how a user removes their identity, with finality, from social networks and the entire web.

Why Blog?

• 1st Edition
• June 9, 2010
• Sarah Pedersen
• English
• eBook 978-1-78063-171-4

  9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 1 7 1 - 4

'Weblogging' or ‘blogging’ has joined e-mail and Internet home pages as one of the most popular uses of the Internet. This book focuses on the British blogosphere, comparing British bloggers to the more researched US. Motivations covered include the desire to connect with others online, the need to express opinions or blow off steam, or to share experiences, and a growing financial motivation in the blogosphere. Other motivations explored include a desire to become a ‘citizen journalist’, a need for validation, the commercial possibilities of blogging and the possibility of turning your blog into a published ‘book’.

Interconnecting Smart Objects with IP

• 1st Edition
• June 1, 2010
• Jean-Philippe Vasseur + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-12-375165-2

  9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 7 5 1 6 5 - 2
• eBook 978-0-12-375166-9

  9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 7 5 1 6 6 - 9

Interconnecting Smart Objects with IP: The Next Internet explains why the Internet Protocol (IP) has become the protocol of choice for smart object networks. IP has successfully demonstrated the ability to interconnect billions of digital systems on the global Internet and in private IP networks. Once smart objects can be easily interconnected, a whole new class of smart object systems can begin to evolve. The book discusses how IP-based smart object networks are being designed and deployed. The book is organized into three parts. Part 1 demonstrates why the IP architecture is well suited to smart object networks, in contrast to non-IP based sensor network or other proprietary systems that interconnect to IP networks (e.g. the public Internet of private IP networks) via hard-to-manage and expensive multi-protocol translation gateways that scale poorly. Part 2 examines protocols and algorithms, including smart objects and the low power link layers technologies used in these networks. Part 3 describes the following smart object network applications: smart grid, industrial automation, smart cities and urban networks, home automation, building automation, structural health monitoring, and container tracking.

Designing with the Mind in Mind

• 1st Edition
• May 20, 2010
• Jeff Johnson
• English
• eBook 978-0-08-096302-0

  9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 6 3 0 2 - 0

Early user interface (UI) practitioners were trained in cognitive psychology, from which UI design rules were based. But as the field evolves, designers enter the field from many disciplines. Practitioners today have enough experience in UI design that they have been exposed to design rules, but it is essential that they understand the psychology behind the rules in order to effectively apply them. In Designing with the Mind in Mind, Jeff Johnson, author of the best selling GUI Bloopers, provides designers with just enough background in perceptual and cognitive psychology that UI design guidelines make intuitive sense rather than being just a list of rules to follow.