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Wireless Internet Crash Course

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This book on the Wireless Internet is enlightening and fact filled, covering how the Wireless Internet will play in our everyday life. Many examples of applications are provided, with some excellent commentary, market data and photographs of products. The format of this book makes it easy to read, you can skip sections and read only what you want to know, without losing any information. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to get a better understanding of mobility, techologies, and market information that are effecting the Internet.

"Wireless Internet Crash Course" is brilliant, delightful to read -- even humorous in places (I chuckled several times at the authors' subtle sense of humor)and is packed with tons of information and statistics! As an analyst for a major investment banking firm, I found this book to be exactly what it claims to be: an insiders perspective which clearly provides answers to the confusing world of the wireless internet, in a language that is easily understood.
The book is divided up into six chapters that take the reader through a brief historical perspective in chapter 1(some interesting facts). Chapter 2 makes sense of the competing technologies in words that non MSEEs can understand, while chapter 3, filled with charts and graphs, provides detailed market research statistics and market drivers (the authors have quoted many leading research firms' figures)-- also there are some insightful comments on the market case studies which look at both the Japan and Finnish markets, and the new generation of customers--teenagers. Chapter 4 is quite compelling in identifying key applications and new business opportunities. Chapter 5 covers key issues- billing, security, privacy, and Chapter 6 is fascinating, providing a glimpse into the future of wireless internet. The chapters are far reaching in breadth and depth, contain many illustrations: graphs, product pictures, so that the reader walks away with a solid understanding of the technical, product, market and business base. In addition, all the wireless industry lingo and acronyms were very clearly defined in the glossary and the appendix sections contain very useful web-site information and further suggested reading. This not only helped me in my reading, but also makes this a great future reference guide. Overall, this book delivered much more than it promised and exceeded expectations, and was a delight to read.

Wireless Internet Crash Course is a must read for newcomers to the world of wireless, the internet space or people who want to know about the future of conversion of communications and computing. The only reason this review is a 4 not a 5 is I am a wireless engineer and I was interested in learning more detailed descriptions of the technologies. This book has a very good explanation of the history of cellular and provides excellent market data and business applications. The book also has a useful glossary and a fairly detailed listing of websites and other books to get more information. The authors do a great job explaining some technical and market topics in an easy to read, easy to understand way. Definitely worth your time. This is a good buy.

This is a wonderful and informative manual for the TC community. The authors clearly have command of current and emerging trends. I look forward the online updates and tools.

A.R.

Provides compelling insight into the world of the Wireless Internet! This is both a technology and business book covering the background and evolution of wireless technology, portable devices, market opportunities. Spellbinding, humorous in parts, it reads at times like a magazine article or a novel, for instance when describing Japan's successful i-mode services or taking the reader through many of the entertaining and imaginative applications. Definitely a reference book for anyone seeking to understand the wireless past and future.

You know that the wireless internet is about to change the world, it is one of the hottest subjections around. This book is for the " ideas men " that will be in the driving seat of that change. It provides clear, concise information about where the technology is now and where it is likely to go in the future. It even lists potential applications and their benefits, market size projections and actrual case studies, and outline future tgrends. There is enough detail to allow you to converse with the technologists, while keeping the manager's perspective, where new ideas are born. This book is insightfull! and quite enjoyable.

This is a must read for anyone trying to navigate through all of the various wireless data options that innundate us today. There is a lot of fiction and untruths about what is out there and how it will benefit a person or organization. It provides a fast read in a highly organized manner that can be used to bring the various Wireless Internet options into focus for IT managers, business professionals, the technologist getting into'd to a new area or a consumer trying to sort the wheat from the chaff.

An effective and useful reference book on the "wireless internet." It covers the technologies, markets, products and services, citing many real applications in a easily readable format. I think this book would satisfactorily serve the student and industry professional as a useful single source of information.

Good overview on subject-- like a Cliff Notes, covers the key points but if you need details you'll have to buy books and visit the websites which are listed in the appendix. The book is easy to read (I read the book from cover to cover on flight from San Jose to Chicago last week with time to spare).

The writers of this book seem to know the subject very well, and give good explaination which is not too detailed. This provided me with very good overview of wireless internet networks, market potential, applications and services. Book has many pictures of products.