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What the dormouse said What the dormouse said John Markoff Most histories of the personal computer industry focus on technology or business. John Markoff's landmark book is about the culture and consciousness behind the first PCs—the culture being counter– a… OL10990575W
Direct from Dell Direct from Dell Michael Dell The founder of Dell Inc. (now Dell Technologies) recounts the story of his thriving high-tech company and the strategies that have made it so successful and competitive. OL11983156W
Inside Apple Inside Apple Adam Lashinsky Based on numerous interviews, this book offers exclusive new information about how Apple uses secrecy, accountability, and a quirky management structure to ensure that the world's most valuable publi… OL16240407W
In search of stupidity In search of stupidity Merrill R. Chapman A humorous book that takes a look at some of the most influential marketing and business philosophies since the 1980s and, through the dark glass of hindsight, provides an educational and entertainin… OL16919849W
iCon iCon Jeffrey S. Young Examines the legendary success that Steve Jobs had with Pixar and his rejuvenation of Apple through the introduction of the iMac and iPod. OL16984677W
A View from Beneath the Dancing Elephant A View from Beneath the Dancing Elephant Peter E. Greulich A different take from Louis V. Gerstner's *Who Says Elephants Can't Dance?*. OL17360839W
Harlequin Harlequin Morris West 571 p. ; 25 cm OL1892483W
The four The four Scott Galloway Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong. OL19721316W
Agent Supported Cooperative Work Agent Supported Cooperative Work Yiming Ye Improvements in computer networking have heralded great expectations for computer-mediated distributed work. However, experience has revealed that, as information flow improves, a central problem for… OL19825082W
Conductor: Distributed Adaptation for Heterogeneous Networks Conductor: Distributed Adaptation for Heterogeneous Networks Mark D. Yarvis Internet heterogeneity is driving a new challenge in application development: adaptive software. Together with the increased Internet capacity and new access technologies, network congestion and the … OL19837090W
Entertainment Computing Entertainment Computing Ryohei Nakatsu With the advancement of computers and networks, new types of entertainment have emerged such as video games, entertainment robots, and network games. This volume brings together researchers, develope… OL19847703W
Global Mobile Satellite Systems Global Mobile Satellite Systems Peter A. Swan Global Mobile Satellite Systems - A Systems Overview makes mobile satellite communications understandable for communication engineers, candidates for an engineering degree, technicians, managers, and… OL19853081W
Internetwirtschaft Internetwirtschaft Rüdiger Zarnekow Während der Aufbau und Betrieb von Internetinfrastrukturen zur Zeit der Entstehung des Internets in erster Linie von öffentlichen Institutionen vorangetrieben wurde, wird dieser Bereich heute längst … OL19858703W
Localized Quality of Service Routing for the Internet Localized Quality of Service Routing for the Internet Srihari Nelakuditi Under Quality of Service (QoS) routing, paths for flows are selected based upon the knowledge of resource availability at network nodes and the QoS requirements of flows. QoS routing schemes proposed… OL19884445W
Preferential Emergency Communications Preferential Emergency Communications Ken Carlberg Preferential Emergency Communications: From Telecommunications to the Internet, a professional monograph, is divided into three sections. The first describes systems and protocols that have been depl… OL19896333W
Towards the Knowledge Society Towards the Knowledge Society João L. Monteiro Towards the Knowledge Society is a state-of-the-art book covering innovative trends in the design, implementation and dissemination of eCommerce, eBusiness, and eGovernment. The book contains recent … OL19907488W
DEC is dead, long live DEC DEC is dead, long live DEC Edgar H Schein,Paul J Kampas,Peter S Delisi,Michael M Sonduck Telling the 40 year story of the creation and demise of a pioneering company of the computer age, this book explains how a particular culture can become so embedded that the organization is unable to… OL20004842W
Playing for profit Playing for profit Alice LaPlante,Rich Seidner Playing for Profit examines how digital interactivity will affect the future of the technology and entertainment businesses, demanding new rules, different players, and bigger profits. It takes an in… OL20889179W
In the company of giants In the company of giants Rama Dev Jager Pull up a chair and listen in on the most honest and unrestrained interviews ever published of the titans of the digital world. OL2622962W
The Maverick and His Machine The Maverick and His Machine Kevin Maney "IBM is one of the most successful companies in American history; it ushered in the Information Age and dominated the information industry for more than seventy years. Yet the builder of IBM has neve… OL3520813W
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