Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy
Author: Carl Shapiro
Information Goods -- from movies and music to software code and stock quotes - have supplanted industrial goods as the key drivers of world markets. Confronted by this New Economy, many instinctively react by searching for a corresponding New Economics to guide their business decisions. Executives charged with rolling out cutting-edge software products or on-line versions of their magazines are tempted to abandon the classic lessons of economics, and rely instead on an ever changing roster of trends, buzzwords, and analogies that promise to guide strategy in the information age. Not so fast, say authors Carl Shapiro and Hal R. Varian. In Information Rules they warn managers, "Ignore basic economic principles at your own risk. Technology changes. Economic laws do not." Understanding these laws and their relevance to information goods is critical when fashioning today's successful competitive strategies. Information Rules introduces and explains the economic concepts needed to navigate the evolving network economy. Information Rules will help business leaders and policy makers - from executives in the entertainment, publishing, hardware, and software industries to lawyers, finance professionals, and writers -- make intelligent decisions about their information assets.
<br>— Wall Street Journal - Stanley W. Angrist
...inexpensive, reliable computing has changed the way business is done. So how should corporations adapt? Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian, in Information Rules, offer several ideas. The authors forgo buzzwords and hype, for the most part, to describe proven strategies based on enduring economic principles.
What People Are Saying
Andrew S. Grove
An excellent book! Through a combination of clear, jargon-free English, and crisp, specific examples drawn from real life, Information Rules shows how economic principles apply in the age of Internet.
Barry Nalebuff
Forget Econ 101. Get a glimpse of Econ 2001 -- state-of-the-art ideas on how and when the market for information works, and what that means for business. Information Rules is an accessible, real-world, and ultimately practical guide.
Eric Schmidt
Information Rules is the first book to explain network economics, the new economics of our lives. Shapiro and Varian explain all the crazy things that we see happening every day in Silicon Valley and other parts of the world. This book is a must-read for every business person in the new millenium.
Michael Dolbec
I have not found a better field guide to the trench warfare of competition in the information age. Information Rules is an excellent asset for high-tech strategists. Skip that 'fog of war' feeling -- read this book to find out exactly what your competitors are doing, and how you can make their nights sleepless as you compete for the future.
Read also Walk in Balance or Culpepers Color Herbal
Visual C# How to Program
Author: Harvey M Deitel
The complete, authoritative Deitel® Live-Code introduction to object-oriented programming with C# 2.0, Visual C#® 2005, ADO.NET 2.0, ASP.NET 2.0 and Web Services! C# is one of the world’s most powerful object-oriented languages. This new edition, which is completely updated to C# 2.0 and Visual C#® 2005, uses a carefully paced early classes and objects approach.
This book is a must have for any C# student because of its thorough explanations, its carefully developed and commented examples, and its numerous and interesting exercises. The idea of introducing a bit of UML in each chapter through a case study is great and should be in every book! It’s the book I’ll recommend to my students! —José Antonio González Seco, Andalucia’s Parlamient
I’m glad to see the early treatment of objects done so well. The UML material is well explained and will help students better understand OOP. A comprehensive introduction to XML, and one of the clearest tutorials on Web services I’ve read, with great examples. An excellent chapter on generics. Explains data structures with a clarity that is hard to come by. —Gavin Osborne, Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
Overall fantasic coverage of inheritance.—Dharmesh Chauhan,Microsoft
The [optional] ATM OOD/UML case study is excellent! The implementation of the design developed in the early chapters gives the reader a fantastic model of a real world problem. You hit a home run with this one! —Catherine Wyman, Devry-Phoenix
Deitel has a real knack for presenting technical material with accuracy, clarity and brevity. —Harlan Brewer, University of Cincinnati
Excellent coverage of developing ASP.NET 2.0 applications, with plenty of sample code. The chapter on exception handling is one of, if not the best such chapters I have seen in the 50+ .NET related books I’ve read and reviewed. The chapter on Networking is one of the best I have seen. —Peter Bromberg, Merrill Lynch, C# MVP
A beautiful presentation of threads —Pavel Tsekov, Caesar BSC
A superb job of clearly integrating the theory of relational databases and SQL with the application of ADO.NET.—Harlan Brewer, University of Cincinnati
Visual C# 2005 How to Program, 2/e, includes comprehensive coverage of object-oriented programming in C#, and several major integrated case studies: the Grade Book class (Chapters 4—6, 8), the Time class (three sections of Chapter 9), the Employee class (Chapters 10—11), the optional OOD/UML™ 2 ATM system (Chapters 1, 3—9 and Appendix J), and three multi-tier, database driven Web applications–a guest book (Chapter 21), a secure book database (Chapter 21) and an airline reservation system (Chapter 22).
Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally recognized corporate training and content creation organization specializing in C#, Visual Basic® .NET, Visual C++® .NET, Java™, C, C++, XML, Python, Perl, Ruby, AJAX, Internet, Web and object technologies. The Deitels are the authors of many other best-selling programming language
textbooks, including Java™ How to Program, 6/e, Internet & World Wide Web How to Program, 3/e and C++ How to Program, 5/e. Visual C# 2005 How to Program, 2/e’s instructor and student resources include Web sites (deitel.com and prenhall.com/deitel) with the book’s code examples and information for faculty, students and professionals.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Before You Begin
1. Introduction to Computers, the Internet and C#
2. Introduction to the Visual C# 2005 Express IDE
3. Introduction to Visual C# Programming
4. Introduction to Early Classes and Objects
5. Control Statements Part 1
6. Control Statements Part 2
7. Methods: A Deeper Look
8. Arrays
9 Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look
10 Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance
11 Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism
12 Exception Handling
13. Graphical User Interface Concepts: Part 1
14. Graphical User Interface Concepts: Part 2
15. Multithreading
16. Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions
17. Graphics and Multimedia
18. Filesand Streams
19. XML
20. Database, SQL and ADO.NET
21. ASP.NET, Web Forms and Web Controls
22. Web Services
23. Networking: Stream-Based Sockets
24. Searching and Sorting
25. Data Structures
26. Generics
27. Collections
A. Operator Precedence Chart
B. Number Systems
C. Visual Studio .NET Debugger
D. ASCII Character Set
E. UnicodeR
F. Introduction to XHTML: Part1
G. Introduction to XHTML: Part 2
H. HTML/XHTML Special Characters
I. HTML Colors
J. ATM Case Study Code
K. UML Diagrams
L. Simple Types
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