Pocket Guide To Mobile Connectivity

More and more people travel the world with cell phones, laptop computers and PDAs than ever before. But it usually takes just one trip for reality to set in: protocols for telecommunications, cell communications and Internet and mobile connectivity vary from country to country.

This handy Pocket Guide by mobile device expert Jason O'Grady will steer readers through the secrets to using the latest phones on the market incorporating the Android platform. Some of the common features across the phones are expected to be: QWERTY or touch-screen keyboard, Google Search, Web browsing, Google Apps, IM/text/email, digital camera, YouTube videos, music player, Android Market, and more. With this essential companion readers will be mastering their Google Phones in no time!

"Up and running with smart device development"--Cover.

The extraordinary Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is one of the world's most exciting new travel frontiers, a picture-book-beautiful mountain landscape with a rich Buddhist culture. The only country in the world to measure its success by the principles of Gross National Happiness, Bhutan is a truly unique place. Berlitz Pocket Guide Bhutan is a brand-new, full-colour travel guide that combines lively text with vivid photography to highlight the best that the country has to offer. Inside Pocket Guide Bhutan: Where To Go details all the key sights in the country, while handy maps on the cover flaps help you find your way around, and are cross-referenced to the text. Top 10 Attractions gives a run-down of the best sights to take in on your trip. Perfect Tour provides an itinerary of the country. What To Do is a snapshot of ways to spend your spare time, from mountain treks and visiting local festivals to shopping for traditional crafts and textiles. Essential information on Bhutan's culture, including a brief history of the country. Eating Out covers the country's best cuisine. Curated listings of the best hotels and restaurants. A-Z of all the practical information you'll need.

In this handy new Pocket Guide, mobile device expert Jason O'Grady reveals the secrets to using Google's Nexus One smartphone. All of the common features are covered including Web browsing, Google Apps, IM/text/email, digital camera, video, music player, and more. With this essential companion readers will be mastering their Nexus One in no time!

For trainers free additional material of this book is available. This can be found under the "Training Material" tab. Log in with your trainer account to access the material. Note: This pocket book is available in several languages: English, German, Dutch. Since 2001 the Van Haren Publishing ITIL Pocket Guides have helped readers all over the world to understand the essentials of ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library), the leading framework for IT service management. This pocket guide does exactly the same as previous editions: offering a concise summary of ITIL, based on ITIL® 2011 Edition. We have condensed the full ITIL framework, found in 2000 pages, into just 200 pocket-sized pages! It means that this book is an essential time-saving and cost-effective guide to ITIL 2011 Edition -- for both industry experts and students alike. Primarily it is a quick, portable reference tool to ITIL for all professionals in the service management community. What is the ‘lifecycle’ approach? What are the key service management processes and functions? Secondly the ITIL pocket guide can be used as part of the training material for everyone who wants to certify for the ITIL Foundation exam. The guide contents cover all of the specifications of AXELOS’ ITIL Foundation Certificate syllabus.

For anyone thinking of exploring a mobile lifestyle, figuring out how to best keep online while exploring the world offline becomes critically important. In this handbook, we help you assess your internet needs, set your expectations to realistic, explain the challenges of mobile connectivity and overview the options of cellular, Wi-Fi and satellite.The book is written for the non-technical internet surfer to the high-tech geek - we strive to balance using every day language and examples to explain complex topics, while keeping things technically accurate. This book is meant to be a primer to the foundation of mobile internet as a US based nomad, and complements the more in-depth guides, product overviews and constantly updated resources on our accompanying website (much of which is free, but we do have member exclusive content too which is not included with the purchase of this book.)Our goal is to make this stuff comprehensible so you can enjoy a thrivable life on the road with a minimal of technical frustrations, and still able to afford the fuel that propels your adventures! This stuff is constantly changing, and we keep it up to date on our accompanying website and provide additional services, such as our premium membership group with more in-depth content, reviews, tutorials, webinars and Q&A forums. We highly recommend at least joining our free e-mail newsletter or subscribing to our RSS feed to keep in the know. Details are in the book on doing that. Also check our free annual update guides that overview all of the major developments each year that will update this book - there is a link in the beginning of the book to that page. (Have a previous edition? It has been 2 years since the last edition of this book was released - and a lot has changed. If you're still in your research phase, then we definitely recommend starting out with the 5th Edition. However, the 5th Edition is also a brand new approach to the topic, focused more on the foundations of mobile internet. It does not go into details on the specifics - and is more focused on what to keep an eye out for when shopping. If you already have a solid foundation on your needs and the basics of the options and are ready to dive into the specifics, then you might prefer to skip ahead to our more in-depth guides online.)We have no affiliation or financial ties with any of the products we mention throughout the book or website... we strive to provide unbiased information for nomads, by nomads. And we can only do that through the support of our premium members.

Introducing Microsoft's flagship wireless development tool The .NET Mobile Web Developer's Guide will provide readers with a solid guide to developing mobile applications using Microsoft technologies. The focus of this book is on using ASP.NET and the .NET mobile SDK. It provides an introduction to the .NET platform and goes into moderate details on ASP.NET to allow readers to start developing ASP.NET applications. In addition, this book will give the readers the insight to use the various Microsoft technologies for developing mobile applications. This book assumes the readers have experience in developing web applications and are familiar with any one of the server-side technologies like ASP, JSP or PHP. The first book available on Microsoft's cornerstone wireless development tool Best selling, high profile authors. Wei Meng Lee and Shelley Powers are frequent speakers at all of the major developer conferences have previously authored best selling books for O'Reilly and Associates, Wrox Press, SAMS and Que Comes with wallet-sized CD containing a printable HTML version of the book, all of the source code examples and demos of popular ASP .NET and .NET Mobile programming tools Comprehensive Coverage of the .NET Mobile SDK and ASP.NET for Mobile Web developers