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Global Information Infrastructure
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 424

Global Information Infrastructure

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996-01-01
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Global Information Infrastructure: The Birth, Vision and Architecture addresses three levels of the information superhighway in terms of their information content and technological implementations. This book is a futuristic view of the major components of the new global world.

The Triumph of Ethernet
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

The Triumph of Ethernet

One of the most important elements in the computer revolution has been agreement on technological standards. This book tells the complete story of the battle between several competing technologies in the late 1970s and early 1980s to become the compatibility standard in one high-tech arena, the LAN (local area network) industry.

Protectors of Privacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Protectors of Privacy

From credit-card purchases to electronic fingerprints, the amount of personal data available to government and business is growing exponentially. All industrial societies face the problem of how to regulate this vast world of information, but their governments have chosen distinctly different solutions. In Protectors of Privacy, Abraham L. Newman details how and why, in contrast to the United States, the nations of the European Union adopted comprehensive data privacy for both the public and the private sectors, enforceable by independent regulatory agencies known as data privacy authorities. Despite U.S. prominence in data technology, Newman shows, the strict privacy rules of the European U...

Protectors of Privacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Protectors of Privacy

Data privacy and the global economy -- Privacy regimes : comprehensive and limited approaches -- The computer age : similar problems, different solutions -- The EU data privacy directive : transgovernmental actors as drivers of regional integration -- The spread of comprehensive rules : the international implications of the regulatory state -- The struggle over transnational civil liberties -- Regulatory power and the global economy.

Monthly Labor Review
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 736

Monthly Labor Review

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.

The Time Almanac
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1046

The Time Almanac

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Handbook of Public Information Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 710

Handbook of Public Information Systems

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-03-29
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

Delivering IT projects on time and within budget while maintaining privacy, security, and accountability is one of the major public challenges of our time. The Handbook of Public Information Systems, Second Edition addresses all aspects of public IT projects while emphasizing a common theme: technology is too important to leave to the technocrats.

Asia's Computer Challenge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 383

Asia's Computer Challenge

Offering a systematic comparison of the historical development of the computer industries of Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan, the book provides a solid basis for examining the relative influence of both government policy and market forces on the development of computer enterprises within each country.

Media Ownership and Concentration in America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 500

Media Ownership and Concentration in America

People have worried for many years about the concentration of private power over the media, as evidenced by controversy over Federal Communication Commission rulings on broadcast ownership limits. The fear, it seems, is of a media mogul with a political agenda: a new William Randolph Hearst who could help start wars or run for political office using the power of the media. In the light of these concerns about freedom of speech, Eli Noam provides a comprehensive survey of media concentration in America, covering everything from the early media empire of Benjamin Franklin to the modern-day cellular phone industry.