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Radical Simplicity: Transforming Computers Into Me-centric Appliances

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Great book on technology
Designing a Me-Centric World is cool!
Designing a Me-Centric World is cool!
The right approach - computers do it for me
The right approach - computers do it for me

Radical Simplicity: Transforming Computers Into Me-centric Appliances
Frederick Hayes-Roth , and Daniel Amor
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
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Binding: Paperback

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End-user expectations will go through a radical change within the next 10 years. Don't miss the wave--rearchitect products and services now.

Provides insights into new technology trends, business cases and paradigms and explains future paradigms of computing in laymen's terms.

Explains the technologies behind the next generation of the Internet. Shows how new business can be generated through the creation of me-centric devices.

This book is about change. Me-Centric computing will revolutionize how we approach computing and appliances of all types. In fact, we won't have to approach them at all. In some cases they will "know" what it is we want them to do. In this book, technology and business strategists learn how to make me-centric computing work for them. Until recently, the growth of computer usage has been driven primarily around the ability of computers to crunch numbers, handle text, and edit documents and slide presentations. Computers in the backroom were invisible to us. Productivity gains were modest initially and probably reached diminishing returns some time ago. The world is about to be turned upside down, however. This new technology is called "me-centric" because it fits into the individual's life in a natural way, conforming to preferences and requirements, taking orders, and performing a variety of delegated tasks. In me-centric computing, every appliance becomes part of my environment, my team, my extension. I get increased power, save time, have more fun, do fewer menial tasks because the vast power of computers, communications, and software is working in concert to do my bidding.

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Great book on technology.......2003-05-28

Roth and Amor provide a great book on how to simplify technology. If we do not try to simplify it, it will become unmanageable in the future. The book shows what the problems are and how to solve them. Unfortunately, production was weak and there are some figures are not very well readable. Please change this in the reprint.

Designing a Me-Centric World is cool!.......2003-04-01

This book talks about a radical change in IT. It shows how computers should be programmed. Not in a tool-centric way, but in a user-centric way, meaning that not the functionality is the main focus, but the usefulness of the system towards the user. In many cases, you can see systems that are full of features everyone and nobody needs. If these systems would only provide the functionality that I need at a given time, it would reduce the complexity of that system and would enable me to do my work faster. By connecting all sorts of devices and services, it is possible to create new me-centric service chains that can give better value to me.

The book provides a lot of good ideas how this can look like in the future, but also shows what is necessary from a development point of view to make this happen. Technical, social and business aspects are introduced and enable the solution architect for a new product/service to make it me-centric.

A must for product development!

Designing a Me-Centric World is cool!.......2003-03-27

A must for product development!

The right approach - computers do it for me.......2003-03-19

Although it may seem simple, so far computers did not actually do work for us, the did the work instead of other tools. Word ist just an electronic typewriter, but did it write the text for me? No! The next generation of computers will be different. They will actually do work for us, they will make their own decisions and execute predefined work tasks in an intelligent way. Sounds spooky? Maybe, but if you trust your secretary, you should also trust your computer. Hayes-Roth and Amor show us how this brave, new world may look like. Very interesting read, indeed!

The right approach - computers do it for me.......2003-03-10

Sarvega: Appliance and Embeddable Software Approaches that Address XML Performance Challenges ZapNote

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Sarvega: Appliance and Embeddable Software Approaches that Address XML Performance Challenges ZapNote
ZapThink , and Ronald D. Schmelzer
Manufacturer: ZapThink, LLC
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ASIN: B00078U8N4

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As XML continues to proliferate on the corporate network, companies increasingly desire approaches that provide capabilities for security, management, process, and data manipulation without degrading overall network performance. As a result, hardware platform vendors are providing solutions that are able to offer substantially higher performance over purely software-based solutions. As a result, companies need new approaches to deal with messages on the network that stress the capabilities of the general purpose hardware and software that now deals with the problem.

Sarvega aims to meet these needs with a family of appliance and OEM-able software solutions that provide wire-speed solutions for XML and Web Services security, transformation, and emerging messaging needs. The company has also recently announced the Sarvega XML Context Router, an XML appliance that provides secure and reliable routing and messaging capabilities for XML at wire speed based on deep content inspection and publish/subscribe messaging.

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ASIN: B000FILDNK
Release Date: 2006-04-25

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This digital document is an article from Internet Business Newsletter, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2006. The length of the article is 420 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Date: February 1, 2006
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Reduce network complexity: application front-end appliance processes rather than switches traffic demands of Web applications.(Special Focus: Testing & ... : An article from: Communications News

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Reduce network complexity: application front-end appliance processes rather than switches traffic demands of Web applications.(Special Focus: Testing & ... : An article from: Communications News
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ASIN: B000EPFM0O
Release Date: 2006-02-23

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This digital document is an article from Communications News, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1599 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Date: April 1, 2005
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Voice applications: a reality: tiny screens? Elusive connections? Voice-enable your Web applications so mobile users can access them via phone. It's easier ... An article from: Mobile Business Advisor

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Voice applications: a reality: tiny screens? Elusive connections? Voice-enable your Web applications so mobile users can access them via phone. It's easier ... An article from: Mobile Business Advisor
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This digital document is an article from Mobile Business Advisor, published by Advisor Publications, Inc. on September 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1786 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Date: September 1, 2004
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Volume: 22 Issue: 5 Page: 34(3)

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Use Your PC to Build an Incredible Home Theater System

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Use Your PC to Build an Incredible Home Theater System
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Covers basic audio and video concepts, and shows how they relate to computer-based multimedia
Contains reviews and recommendations of hardware and software that make the home theater person computer (HTPC) work
Includes photos, descriptions, and explanations of difficult procedures and concepts to make creating your own HTPC easier

Use Your PC to Build an Incredible Home Theater System is meant for those home theater enthusiasts with some working knowledge of personal computers (PCs) who want to create the ultimate home theater experience. A Home Theater Personal Computer (HTPC) is basically an ordinary PC used in conjunction with a high-definition-capable television, monitor, or video projector, and a sound system. The book is laid out chronologically and follows the authors' activities as they assemble two HTPC systems, starting with a detailed background of video and audio technologies to help readers understand what the HTPC can do.

An HTPC can do much more than play DVD movies on a HDTV-ready television. The convergence of computers and digital entertainment formats means that the PC platform is well suited to reproducing audio in many formats, including converting older analog recordings to digital. It is also great for capturing and editing home movies, implementing a personal video recorder, creating slide-show presentations with digital pictures, videoconferencing, and much more. Use Your PC to Build an Incredible Home Theater System will show readers how to set up an HTPC for the most complete home theater experience available.

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Covers basic audio and video concepts, and shows how they relate to computer-based multimedia
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Includes photos, descriptions, and explanations of difficult procedures and concepts to make creating your own HTPC easier

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