January 2012 | Assurance Wireless Program

Building a Cisco Wireless Lan Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)All the Cisco WLAN deployment options you could name for seasoned LAN or WAN administrators. This book is well written and informative for deploying the Cisco Aironet solution. I will use it when needed as a reference. If you are new to Wireless and Networking then the CWNA (Certified Wireless Lan Administrator)...

TechTV's Cutting the Cord: A Wireless Consumer's Guide Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Cutting the cord is awesome, jam-packed with information on this new wirless world of ours. Whether looking at wireless for your office, home or on-the-road needs, this book provides you with all you need to know regarding options and how to get connected...plus a whole lot more. I recommend it highly!Click...

Programming Applications with the Wireless Application Protocol: The Complete Developer's Guide Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This had potential to be a useful book, but it is undermined by several serious flaws. First, and perhaps least likely to be noticed, is that it is heavily biased towards the WAP implementation of a single company. While the particular implementation used is not a bad one, the book fails to stress that...

The Essential Guide to Wireless Communications Applications, From Cellular Systems to WAP and M-Commerce Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As someone new to wireless technology, I found this book very helpful. It explains what all the buzzwords like 3G and m-commerce actually MEAN, and left me understanding a lot mroe about the industry than before. I particularly liked the chapter on how 3G works, because it had a lot of detailed info...

Wireless Security Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I can hardly believe this book is endorsed by RSA. Actually I purchased the book because of this endorsement. Alas, I'll be more careful in the future. For sure.Sorry to say this, but you can learn more on wireless security in the Readers' Digest than in this book.The issues are treated in a very naive...

Next Generation Wireless Systems and Networks Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The book asks what lies beyond the current 3G (or 2.5G) in wireless. Anticipated trends are studied. It is widely believed in this field that a key driver will be ubiquitous and mobile access. The mobile aspect is sometimes termed nomadic. As a further inducement for new services, the wireless connectivity...

Mobilize Your Enterprise: Achieving Competitive Advantage Through Wireless Technology Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Mr. Brans does a superb job of presenting much of what is going on in the wireless world today.To be fair, I did not read the entire book, only sections that I found interesting. However, the portions I did read, chpts 1-4, 10-12 were fascinating and on target in many respects.As corporations begin aligning...

Going Wireless: Transform Your Business with Mobile Technology Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Easton takes a very difficult subject and pieces together how wireless will make our lives simpler and faster still. We can get what we want, when we want it. We can make an order from a wireless hand held device and pick it up within minutes.This book is made to order if you want to see where wireless...

Web On-The-Go: A Preview of the Way of Living in a Wireless Web World Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I work for a major university, specifically in their fundraising departments and one of the things that we keep hearing more and more about is social media and how to maximize on the whole web "thing". This is one of the reasons I wanted to read Web On-The-Go: A Previews of the Way of Living in a Wireless...

Wireless and Mobile Networks Security Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The editors give an indepth coverage of recent work in the security of a wireless network, where the nodes might be mobile. The network might be using Bluetooth, WiMax or other protocols. The treatment is moderately mathematical, but attention is paid by the authors of the chapters to summarising clearly...

Production Testing of RF and System-on-a-Chip Devices for Wireless Communications (Artech House Microwave Library) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Production Testing of RF and System-on-a-Chip Devices for Wireless Communications (Artech House Microwave Library)The author blows right by the topic of RF measurement system calibration and the analysis of measurement uncertainty. RF measurement system calibration techniques, is an essential topic if...

New Directions in Wireless Communications Research Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Let me first make sure where this book stands. Well, if you are an undergraduate student, then this book is not for you. If you are a first or second year graduate student pursuing non-thesis masters, then this book is not for you. This book covers some of the advanced topics that are somewhat redundant...

Smart Antennas for Wireless Communications: With MATLAB (Professional Engineering) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This textbook is the best of all fundamental texts on smart antennas and adaptive arrays. It reduces this complex topic into the basic elements that are necessary for understanding smart antennas. Basic chapters are written on electromagnetics, antennas, arrays, random processes, channel modeling, spectral...

Wireless Data Demystified Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If you work in or need wireless capabilites - this is the book for you!! All you need in one book !!!This book is truly "chock full" of detailed information, charts. graphs and examples of how to use and install wireless data technology in todays ever changing enviroments. With these everchanging uses...

The Wireless Internet Explained (HP Technologies) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)It does a brilliant job of explaining all the main wireless technologies including Bluetooth CDMA TDMA GPRS WAP UMTS 802.11 and puts them into perspective for you. There are wonderful sections on security and development and a great treatment of middleware = what it is why you need it. The conclusion...

Home Wireless Networking in a Snap Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I read this book from cover to cover, writing notes on every page, marking off errors, and making personal observations in the margins. Bottom line, I gave it a thorough reading. I approached the book as a rank amateur who knew nothing about wireless and I finished the book as someone who knew a good...

Wireless Security and Privacy: Best Practices and Design Techniques Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The title of a book needs to be a contract the authors make with the reader. This book is an introduction to wireless with a general coverage of security and a privacy chapter glommed on dressed up as a wireless book. Wireless is such a complex and important issue, that is just wrong to do. The afterword,...