This comprehensive and instructive guide to the new world of digital communication covers Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI, and ATM as well as wireless LAN technologies, WANs, LTE and mobile data, IPv4 and IPv6 and the most up-to-date security protocols.

The focus of the investigation is on what people are doing and thinking when engaged in creative design innovation and how their innovation work can be supported.Therefore, within three topic areas, various frameworks, methodologies, mind sets, systems and tools are explored and further developed.

This book presents an overview on fundamentals and the historical background of digital communication. It also covers encoding principles and algorithms of textual information, audio information as well as images, graphics and video in the Internet.

This book represents an attempt to fully review the phenomenon of the blogosphere. This can be achieved through a better understanding of individual blogs and their particular technical characteristics, as well as a deeper knowledge of how a single blog is embedded and interconnected within the entire blogosphere.

This book summarizes the results of Design Thinking Research carried out at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA and Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany.