Telecom guys say that there is a lot of communication in a smartphone; IT professionals claim that a smartphone is in fact a mobile computer; and consumer electronics managers call it the most successful consumer device in the history of business. Will the real smartphone please stand up? The book "Smartphone" aims to do just that by providing a highly readable analysis of an industry that virtually requires an overview of two decades of development of handset hardware, mobile operating systems and wireless telecom standards, from both a technology and a business standpoint. Forget all those...

Understand the technology and ideas behind the mobile commerce business in the post-iPhone arena. Mobile Commerce 2.0 is a must-read for managers tasked with formulating a mobile strategy for their businesses. The book is specifically written to educate and inform professionals in the retail, finance, banking, IT, and wireless industries. Mobile Commerce 2.0 presents a series of real-life use cases as well as success stories like Facebook, Foursquare, LevelUp, PayPal, Square, and Twitter as key innovative deployments. Find out how retailers are embracing mobile commerce and how they are...

Mobile Data makes up the technology and business foundations of smartphone and wireless Internet revolutions. Here comes an authentic guide for the rapidly evolving mobile data landscape that resides at the heart of the smartphone revolution. The arrival of the 4G networks marks a crucial crossroads for the wireless industry and the name of that crossroads is mobile data. Age of Mobile Data celebrates that defining moment in the digital life with a past, present and future storyline. The book covers early mobile data networks like ARDIS and Mobitex and provides a detailed treatment of GSM's...

What is the Internet of Things? How is it evolving seamlessly in multiple dimensions? How does it relate to connected wearable devices like Google Glass? What's its relation with mobile Internet and its vehicle smartphone? Where do weather balloons, drones, fiber and satellites fit into this twenty-first century network juggernaut? Here comes a book that provides answers to all these questions and makes the sense of it all. "The Next Web of 50 Billion Devices" looks into the future-the Internet Things-by analyzing the past: mobile Internet. In between these two technology parables, the book...