APIs are becoming increasingly popular for exposing business functionalities to the rest of the world. According to an infographic published by Layer 7, 86.5% of organizations will have an API program in place in the next five years. Of those, 43.2% already have one. APIs are also the foundation of building communication channels in the Internet of Things (IoT). From motor vehicles to kitchen …
The aim of this book is to provide an introductory treatment of time series econometrics that builds upon the basic statistical and regression techniques contained in my Analysing Economic Data: A Concise Introduction.1 It is written from the perspective that the econometric analysis of economic and financial time series is of key importance to both students and practitioners of economics and s…
“The suspense was killing me. I just had to read it straight through!” Although these responses to our book would be gratifying, it’s doubtful that any book on digital security will ever garner this type of reaction. Digital security is the computer equivalent of disaster insurance. Few people care very much about it or give it much thought, and everyone hates paying for it … until a ca…
One of the many experiences I value from my time participating in the 802.11 working group is the ability to compare the “outside” view of a technology with the “inside” view of people in the engine room sweating to make it work. From the outside, wireless LANs have seen a steady progression in speeds from a megabit in the late 1990s to a gigabit with the first release of 802.11ac in 20…
It is a sad fact that much of the world is dominated by short-term thinking. And an in-depth look at the numerous problems that humanity now faces often reveals that the downside of allowing individuals or groups to do whatever they want (without considering future consequences) usually results in all of us paying dearly for it. Equally as true is that an increasing number of people and their…
Recently, the number of social networking sites is rapidly increasing, and the number of users joining these sites is dramatically increasing as well. This paper aims at comprehensively comparing three social networking sites, and provides an in-depth analysis. We compare three of the most popular social networking sites, i.e., Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. Specifically, we evaluate those soci…
Mobile Online Social Networks (mOSNs) have recently grown in popularity. With the ubiquitous use of mo- bile devices and a rapid shift of technology and access to OSNs, it is important to examine the impact of mobile OSNs from a privacy standpoint. We present a taxonomy of ways to study privacy leakage and report on the cur- rent status of known leakages. We find that all mOSNs in our study ex…
If you were in a state of cryogenic suspension for the past two decades and suddenly awoke, you would find yourself inundated with information coming from the use of cellular phones, personal computers connected to the Internet, tablets, digital music players, e-book readers, high-definition televisions, digital cameras, and a variety of other digital gadgets that have entered common households…
Welcome to Wireless Home Networking For Dummies. Wireless network- ing for personal computers is not really a new idea; it’s been around for at least five years. The emergence of an industry standard, however, has caused the use of wireless networking technology to explode. One of the most appealing things about the current crop of wireless network- ing equipment is the ease with which you c…
These lectures, d e l ivered by Ludwig von Mises at the Foundation for Economic Education in the summer of 1951,would not exist if not for Bettina Bien Greaves, who took them down word for word in shorthand, and who kindly made the transcriptions available to FEE. Mrs. Greaves served as a senior staff member at the Foundation for almost 50 years, until her retirement in 1999. She and her late h…
Ext JS 4 is Sencha's latest JavaScript framework for developing cross-platform web applications. Built upon web standards, Ext JS provides a comprehensive library of user interface widgets and data manipulation classes to turbo-charge your application's development. Ext JS 4 builds on Ext JS 3, introducing a number of new widgets and features including the popular MVC architecture, easily custo…
Web users demand intuitive and responsive interfaces for tracking their finances and browsing catalogs. Unlike desktop or system applications, where interfaces are mostly built with flavors of C, C++, or Java, today’s web browsers only run JavaScript natively. But the same patterns that make graphical user interfaces successful on different plat‐ forms apply to JavaScript as well. Many comm…
The Little Data Book on Financial Inclusion 2015 is a pocket edition of the Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) database published in 2015. This data set represents a second round of data collection, following the initial round three years earlier. The database provides nationally representative, demand-side data on access to and use of accounts, credit, payments, and savings by adults a…
Many educational institutions today are focused on the notion of assurance of learning , an important element of many accreditation standards. Fundamental Financial Accounting Concepts 8e is designed specifically to support your assurance of learning initiatives with a simple, yet powerful, solution. Each chapter in the book begins with a list of numbered learning objectives, which appear throu…