Product Description: Before smartphones, back even before the Internet and personal computer, a misfit group of technophiles, blind teenagers, hippies, and outlaws figured out how to hack the world’s largest machine: the telephone system. Starting with Alexander Graham Bell’s revolutionary “harmonic telegraph,” by the middle of the twentieth century the phone system had grown into something extraordinary, a web of cutting-edge switching machines and human operators that linked together millions of people like never before...read more

Documents the business innovations of AT&T that rendered the company a leading innovator in telephone, wireless, and Internet communication and how it suffered a significant decline in effectiveness and competitiveness under the leadership of Mike Armstrong in recent years, drawing on insider accounts to expose how mismanagement compromised its forefront position. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: This historical book explains how the cable industry started, who the key companies and leaders were how shaped it and what changes are occurring in the industry at the beginning of the 21st century. If you are involved or getting involved in the cable or television industry, this book is the perfect solution for making you an industry expert by giving you the history, technology overview and future projections for the cable and television industry...read more