This is a business dictionary of 30,383 defined technology terms -- covering the latest in telecommunications, computing, the Internet, the Internet of Things, networking and social media. It's a complete dictionary/encyclopedia of today's information technology. It is used by everyone from salesmen to lawyers, from corporate trainers to college educators, from corporate users to engineers. It is set as a required textbook in colleges teaching telecommunications and information technology. As the cover says, this massive 1440-page book covers everything in voice, data, images, mobile apps and video. The book is written for businesspeople in non-technical language. Newton and his team expand and update the dictionary every day of the year, which makes it about as up to date as you can get. No other dictionary/encyclopedia is updated as regularly as this one is. This is the 31st edition. No other dictionary in the entire history of publishing has gone through this many editions -- each one improved, expanded and updated. There are 4.4% more definitions (1,214 more) in this 31st edition. Several reviewers (and customers) refer to Newton's Telecom Dictionary as the industry "bible." Originally just telecommunications, it now covers computing, networking, and all the newer allied technology fields. A feature of the dictionary is that many of the definitions are not just an explanation of the technology, but also a primer on how the technology is used. Do's and dont's about using the technology. Tips from personal experience. What works and what doesn't. What to watch out for. Warnings.
Author Biography:
HARRY NEWTON Editor Newton works on this dictionary every day of the year, He adds new terms. He updates old terms, He sees this "dictionary" as a combination dictionary/encyclopedia/history/story of the industry. He wants the dictionary to be the definitive record of the industry's progress. Newton entered telecommunications forty six years ago. He started consulting and quickly learned that the industry lacked up-to-date information. (The Internet had not yet been invented.) He went on to create six successful telecommunications magazines -- Teleconnect, Call Center, Computer Telephony, Imaging, LAN (later called Network Magazine), and Telecom Gear. He also founded the immensely successful shows Call Center Demo, and the Computer Telephony Conference and Exposition, which at its peak attracted 26,000 people to the Los Angeles Convention Center. He also published over 47 books on networking, imaging, telecommunications and computer telephony. Newton has an economics degree from the University of Sydney and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. STEVE SCHOEN Technical Editor Steve Schoen began working in the telecommunications industry in 1984, the same year the first edition of Newton's Telecom Dictionary was published. Steve has worked in telephone company and international carrier positions, first at GTE, then at Verizon Communications, and now at Hawaiian Telcom. He studies and reports on day-to-day changes in telecom, technology, computing and regulation. On nights and weekends since the late 1980s, Steve has been teaching at colleges and universities, both on-ground and online, teaching C, SQL, database management, and business classes. In prior existences, he taught math in England, worked for a federally funded project that developed textbooks in the native languages of Micronesia, and served four years in the U.S. Army.
