Japan's cellular networks are acknowledged as the world's most advanced. Seiichi Sampei, the father of Japanese wireless technology, provides a cutting edge look at the next generation of technology--such as digital multimedia over wireless handsets. Unlike other more theoretical wireless books, Sampei uses a hands-on, practical approach geared for practitioners.

The world is going mobile at an astounding pace. Estimates show 80 percent of global Internet access will take place through mobile devices by 2016. Smartphones, tablets, and handheld devices have reshaped communications, the global economy, and the very way in which we live. The revolution is an electronic nirvana: for the first time in human history we have sophisticated digital applications to help us learn, access financial and health care records, connect with others, and build businesses. But the one trillion dollar mobile industry is still relatively young. Leaders in both the public and private sectors need to figure out how to apply mobile technologies or mobile devices to optimize education, health care, public safety, disaster preparedness, and economic development. And the ever-expanding mobile frontier presents new challenges to law, policy, and regulations and introduces new tensions; one person's idea of cautious deliberation can be another's idea of a barrier to innovation. In Going Mobile, Darrell M. West breaks down the mobile revolution and shows how to maximize its overall benefits in both developed and emerging markets. Contents 1. The Emergence of Mobile Technology 2. Driving Global Entrepreneurship 3. Alleviating Poverty 4. Invention and the Mobile Economy 5. Mobile Learning 6. Improving Health Care 7. Medical Devices and Sensors 8. Shaping Campaigns and Public Outreach 9. Disaster Relief and Public Safety 10. Looking Ahead

How wireless technology is redefining the relationship of communication, technology, and society around the world—in everyday work and life, in youth culture, in politics, and in the developing world. Wireless networks are the fastest growing communications technology in history. Are mobile phones expressions of identity, fashionable gadgets, tools for life—or all of the above? Mobile Communication and Society looks at how the possibility of multimodal communication from anywhere to anywhere at any time affects everyday life at home, at work, and at school, and raises broader concerns about politics and culture both global and local. Drawing on data gathered from around the world, the authors explore who has access to wireless technology, and why, and analyze the patterns of social differentiation seen in unequal access.They explore the social effects of wireless communication—what it means for family life, for example, when everyone is constantly in touch, or for the idea of an office when workers can work anywhere. Is the technological ability to multitask further compressing time in our already hurried existence? The authors consider the rise of a mobile youth culture based on peer-to-peer networks, with its own language of texting, and its own values. They examine the phenomenon of flash mobs, and the possible political implications. And they look at the relationship between communication and development and the possibility that developing countries could "leapfrog" directly to wireless and satellite technology. This sweeping book—moving easily in its analysis from the United States to China, from Europe to Latin America and Africa—answers the key questions about our transformation into a mobile network society.

Fourth-Generation Wireless Networks: Applications and Innovations presents a comprehensive collection of recent findings in access technologies useful in the architecture of wireless networks.

The Global Wireless charts a history of wireless beginning in the 1910s, when it was used as a tool for global communication, and ending as it declined and slowly fell from view after World War I. Examining the political negotiations and internation

In July 2016, GSMA live tracker of number of smart devices in the world overtook live world population clock. We are increasingly getting exposed to an invisible web of radiation all around us through the wireless devices we love so much. With the advent of cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) set to launch more than a trillion smart devices before the end of second decade of 21st century, exposure of all living species is assuming worrisome proportions. Necessity used to be mother of invention but not anymore. Now greed is the father of invention. Science is clear about link between radiofrequency exposure and brain tumours, infertility, electrohypersensitivity among several other disorders. It is time the industry and the governments took notice of it. This book describes how the wireless technology has snapped the link between nature and all living species including wildlife, thus bludgeoning biological systems to adapt to its unforeseen physical impacts. It makes a compelling argument that cuts through the smokescreen created by industry-funded science and defended by revolving-chair scientists.

Contains the latest research, case studies, theories, and methodologies within the field of wireless technologies.