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How green is your smartphone?
Every day we are inundated by propaganda that claims life will be better once we are connected to digital technology. Poverty, famine, and injustice will end, and the economy will be 'green'. All anyone needs is the latest smartphone. In this succinct and lively book, Maxwell and Miller take a critical look at contemporary gadgets and the systems that connect them, shedding light on environmental risks. Contrary to widespread claims, consumer electronics and other digital technologies are made in ways that cause some of the worst environmental disasters of our time - conflict-minerals extraction, fatal and life-threatening occupational hazards, toxic pollution of ecosystems, rising energy consumption linked to increased carbon emissions, and e-waste.
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Practical Mobile Forensics
Mobile phone forensics is the science of retrieving data from a mobile phone under forensically sound conditions. This book is an update to Practical Mobile Forensics, Second Edition and it delves into the concepts of mobile forensics and its importance in today's world.
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The mobile connection : the cell phone's impact on society
Has the cell phone forever changed the way people communicate? The mobile phone is used for \"real time coordination while on the run, adolescents use it to manage their freedom, and teens \"text to each other day and night. The mobile phone is more than a simple technical innovation or social fad, more than just an intrusion on polite society. This book, based on world-wide research involving tens of thousands of interviews and contextual observations, looks into the impact of the phone on our daily lives. The mobile phone has fundamentally affected our accessibility, safety and security, coordination of social and business activities, and use of public places. Based on research conducted in dozens of countries, this insightful and entertaining book examines the once unexpected interaction between humans and cell phones, and between humans, period. The compelling discussion and projections about the future of the telephone should give designers everywhere a more informed practice and process, and provide researchers with new ideas to last years. *Rich Ling (an American working in Norway) is a prominent researcher, interviewed in the new technology article in the November 9 issue of the New York Times Magazine. *A particularly \"good read\", this book will be important to the designers, information designers, social psychologists, and others who will have an impact on the development of the new third generation of mobile telephones. *Carefully and wittily written by a senior research scientist at Telenor, Norway's largest telecommunications company, and developer of the first mobile telephone system that allowed for international roaming.
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Connected
This is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own autonomous cell phone network-without help from telecom companies or the government. Anthropologist Roberto J. González paints a vivid and nuanced picture of life in a Oaxaca mountain village and the collective tribulation, triumph, and tragedy the community experienced in pursuit of getting connected. In doing so, this book captures the challenges and contradictions facing Mexico's indigenous peoples today, as they struggle to wire themselves into the 21st century using mobile technologies, ingenuity, and sheer determination. It also holds a broader lesson about the great paradox of the digital age, by exploring how constant connection through virtual worlds can hinder our ability to communicate with those around us.
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The Physics and Mathematics of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Cellular Wireless Communication
<p><b>An important resource that examines wireless communications from the point of view of its mathematical and physical aspects</b> <p><i>The Physics and Mathematics of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Cellular Wireless Communication</i> describes the electromagnetic principles involved in the design of a cellular wireless system including a number of subtleties that are often overlooked. This important text explores both the physics and mathematical concepts used in deploying antennas for transmission and reception of electromagnetic signals and examines how to select the proper methodology from a wide range of scenarios. <p>In this much-needed guide, the authors—noted experts in the field—explore the principle of electromagnetics as developed through Maxwell's equations and describe the properties of an antenna in the frequency domain. The text also includes a review of the characterization of propagation path loss in a cellular wireless environment and examines ultrawideband antennas and the mechanisms of broadband transmission of both power and information. This important resource: <ul> <li> Includes a discussion of the shortcomings of a MIMO system from both theoretical and practical aspects</li> <li> Demonstrates how to deploy base station antennas with better efficiency</li> <li> Validates the principle and the theoretical analysis of electromagnetic propagation in cellular wireless communication</li> <li>Contains results of experiments that are solidly grounded in mathematics and physics</li> </ul> <p>Written for engineers, researchers, and educators who are or plan to work in the field, <i>The Physics and Mathematics of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Cellular Wireless Communication</i> offers an essential resource for understanding the principles underpinning wireless communications.
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