Ultra-Wideband Communications: Fundamentals and Applications will be indispensable for everyone interested in UWB technology, regardless of their radio frequency experience: engineers, managers, marketers, analysts, purchasing agents, business strategists, journalists, and students alike.

Inside you will find

• An introduction to UWB: history, background, advantages, and challenges
• How UWB compares to narrowband and spread-spectrum wideband systems
• Fundamentals of UWB short-pulse generation and propagation
• Competing single-band and multiband approaches
• UWB antenna concepts and their implications for systems and networks
• Popular modulation/demodulation schemes and multiple-access techniques
• Coexistence with today's WLAN, GPS, and cellular phone systems
• Current and evolving FCC and worldwide regulation of UWB technology
• In-depth coverage of UWB applications and markets, with adoption timelines and forecasts through 2010
• A comprehensive, easy-to-understand glossary and extensive references for further reading

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Understanding Enterprise SOA gives technologists and business people an invaluable and until now missing integrated picture of the issues and their interdependencies. You will learn how to think in a big way, moving confidently between technology- and business-level concerns. Written in a comfortable, mentoring style by two industry insiders, the book draws conclusions from actual experiences of real companies in diverse industries, from manufacturing to genome research. It cuts through vendor hype and shows you what it really takes to get SOA to work.

Intended for both business people and technologists, the book reviews core SOA technologies and uncovers the critical human factors involved in deploying them. You will see how enterprise SOA changes the terrain of EAI, B2B commerce, business process management, "real time" operations, and enterprise software development in general.

What's Inside

• How SOA streamlines portal development and EAI
• Rapid integration with partners
• Effective BPM and real time management
• How to design, develop, run, and secure an SOA
• Real-world SOA deployment scenarios

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If you've held back from developing open source or free software projects because you don't understand the implications of the various licenses, you're not alone. Many developers believe in releasing their software freely, but have hesitated to do so because they're concerned about losing control over their software. Licensing issues are complicated, and both the facts and fallacies you hear word-of-mouth can add to the confusion. Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing helps you make sense of the different options available to you. This concise guide focuses on annotated licenses, offering an in-depth explanation of how they compare and interoperate, and how license choices affect project possibilities. Written in clear language that you don't have to be a lawyer to understand, the book answers such questions as: What rights am I giving up? How will my use of OS/FS licensing affect future users or future developers? Does a particular use of this software–such as combining it with proprietary software–leave me vulnerable to lawsuits? Following a quick look at copyright law, contracts, and the definition of "open source," the book tackles the spectrum of licensing, including:

• The MIT (or X), BSD, Apache and Academic Free licenses
• The GPL, LGPL, and Mozilla licenses
• The QT, Artistic, and Creative Commons licenses
• Classic Proprietary licenses
• Sun Community Source license and Microsoft Shared Source project

The book wraps up with a look at the legal effects–both positive and negative–of open source/free software licensing. Licensing is a major part of what open source and free software are all about, but it's still one of the most complicated areas of law. Even the very simple licenses are tricky. Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing bridges the gap between the open source vision and the practical implications of its legal underpinnings. If open source and free software licenses interest you, this book will help you understand them. If you're an open source/free software developer, this book is an absolute necessity.

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Eric Newcomer's UNDERSTANDING WEB SERVICES was the best of the first crop of Web services books - a no-nonsense guide to the confusing thicket of XML standards that helped many people (including myself) get a handle on what was going on as we all tried to figure out what this XML-over-HTTP stuff was all about. That's one reason I was happy to see this new title cross my desk; the recent explosion of new standards and new ways to hook things together has left things more confused than ever. The book doesn't disappoint. Newcomer and co-author Greg Lomow do an excellent job of explaining why service-oriented architectures are important, show how Web services enable building SOAs (while pointing out that plenty of organizations managed to put together SOAs on older technologies long before Web services entered the pictures), and help navigate through all those confusing standards. 

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Many companies and executives talk about patents, but few can demonstrate significant returns from them. Who are the elite companies and managers that have created wealth and profit from IP rights, and how have they done it? What do they advise others do to achieve higher profit margins, better returns on costly R&D, and increased shareholder value? This reader-friendly book focuses on ten companies and managers/advisors who have successfully implemented wealth-generating patent programs–and shows you how you can do it too. 

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