Communication technology update
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Communication technology update
Focal, 1998
6th ed
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The latest edition of this review of the state-of-the-art in communication technologies is more comprehensive than ever before. The text continues to provide users with the latest information in all areas of telecommunication: electronic mass media, computers, consumer electronics, satellites, and telephony. New chapters for the sixth edition cover print technologies, electronic mail, and personal communication devices, in addition to the comprehensive coverage of two dozen technologies explored in the previous edition. Information on similar technologies has been concentrated into a smaller number of chapters to make it easier to compare history, revenues, technical descriptions, and user information across technologies.
This revision includes a more comprehensive companion home page on the World Wide Web that provides updated information submitted by chapter authors. The Communication Technology Update Home Page (http://www.tfi.com/ctu/ also offers links to other Internet resources, as well as a listing of trade organizations and trade publications covering all areas of communication technology.
As we enter the 21st Century, new communication technologies are being introduced at an astonishing rate. Making sense of these technologies is becoming more difficult. Communication Technology Update is the single source for the latest developments, trends, and issues in communication technology. Now in its sixth edition, Communication Technology Update has become an indispensable information resource for business, government, and academia.
The latest edition of this review of the state-of-the-art in communication technologies is more comprehensive than ever before. The text continues to provide users with the latest information in all areas of telecommunication.: electronic mass media, computers, consumer electronics, satellites, and telephony. New chapters for the sixth edition cover print technologies, electronic mail, and personal communication devices, in addition to the comprehensive coverage of two dozen technologies explored in the previous edition. Information on similar technologies has been concentrated into a smaller number of chapters to make it easier to compare history, revenues, technical descriptions, and user information across technologies.
This revision includes a more comprehensive companion home page on the World Wide Web that provides updated information submitted by chapter authors. The Communication Technology Update Home Page 9http://www.tfi.com/ctu/) also offers links to other Internet resources, as well as a listing of trade organizations and trade publications covering all areas of communication technology.
The sixth edition of Communication Technology Update will continue to include a Statistical Abstract of Communication Technologies, providing year-by-year statistics on dozens of communication technologies, as well as a more complete glossary.
Table of Contents
- The Umbrella Perspective on Communication:Electronic Mass Media
- Cable Television
- Pay Television Services
- Interactive Television
- Direct Broadcast Satellite
- Wireless Multipoint Distribution Services
- Advanced Television
- Radio Broadcasting
- Multimedia Computers and Video Games
- Computers in Media
- Media Asset Management
- Internet and the World Wide Web
- Electronic Mail
- Office Technologies
- Document Printing Technologies
- Virtual and Augmented Reality
- The Digital Revolution Home Video
- Digital Audio
- . Local and Long Distance Telephony
- Broadband Networks
- Satellite Communications
- Distance Learning Technologies
- Telecommuting
- Cable Distributed Telephony and Data Services
- Wireless Telephony: Cellular, PCS, and MSS
- Personal Communications: Pagers, Palmtops
- and PDA's
- Teleconferencing
- Statistical Update of Selected U.S. Communications Media
- Conclusions
- Glossary.
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