As content delivery over wireless devices becomes faster and more secure, it is thought that mobile commerce (m-commerce) will overtake tethered e-commerce as the medium of choice for digital commerce transactions. As well as the obvious effect on financial services (mobile banking), telecommunications, and retail and information services (such as video delivery of sports results) it is also likely to have a profound effect on the way a wide variety of businesses arrange for people to meet and interact. This book explores the theory and practice of both the technical and business domains of m-commerce, particularly wireless networking and mobile commerce applications, as well as discussing the 'what, why and how' of m-commerce. The book starts by covering the theoretical underpinning of the subject, before going on to put the theory into practice, covering the technologies, approaches, applications and design issues.

Mobile Commerce and Wireless Computing Systems

Computers & Technology

Phillips, Nigel

Elliott, Geoffrey

Internet & Social Media

Addison-Wesley

This is the authors story of his father, parachuted into Yugoslavia  for the Briitish  Special Operaions Executive in WW2 , an operation which saw him locked up for  the rest of the war in a  German fortress , and then given the dangerous assignment of  running the Relly network for  the Secret Intelligence Service in Cold War Hungary. His son and his Russian born wife barely saw Kavan Ellliott in those years, or after he decamped to Jamiaca out of range of alimony demands .  Geoffrey Elliott has gone deep into the British Yugoslav and Hungarian  archives  to fill in the many intriguing blanks about  the father he hardly knew.

I Spy: The Secret Life of a British Agent

Biographies & Memoirs

Little,Brown

Who was Major Kavan Elliott, womaniser, wartime saboteur, rogue and peacetime spy? Behind an ostensibly respectable business cover his nomadic life entangled him in a web of deception, beautiful women, Communist double agents and interrogation at the hands of the Gestapo and the Hungarian secret police. This is the extraordinary, authentic story of the quest undertaken by Kavan Elliott's son - the author, Geoffrey Elliott - for the truth about his remarkable father. His search takes him from the torture chambers of Budapest to the classified archives of the British Secret Intelligence Service and reveals an astonishing tale of espionage, betrayal, romance and double-dealing, a trail that led from suburban Croydon to Tsarist Siberia.

I Spy: The Secret LIfe of a Secret Agent (Nigel West intelligence library)

Travelers & Explorers

Students of Business Information Technology and Business Information Systems will find this book a thorough and engaging introduction to the subject area. Rooted in the global environment in which today¿s organisations¿ operate this book offers a comprehensive treatment of one of the most dynamic, exciting and challenging areas of study within business and management. Global Business Information Technology: Systems Theory and Practice describes how technology is being used to gather, interpret and communicate business information at an ever more sophisticated level. The book introduces the basics of computer and communications technologies in a clear, jargon-free style with. It¿s case examples, ¿did you know¿ and ¿activity¿ features helps the student see the theory in practice. Self-check questions and website material encourage students to track their learning and progress.

Global Business Information Technology: an integrated systems approach

Business & Money

Industries

Geoffrey Elliott's grandparents fled pre-revolutionary Russia for London, where they joined the tobacco trade and started a family. Homesick, they returned to Siberia, amidst the turmoil of revolution in 1917. Told with great affection, the author's memoir of his family is a tale of home, exile, and hope for change, and an epic evocation of life in a time of intense historical upheaval. Geoffrey Elliott is the author of I Spy and Secret Classrooms: An Untold Story of the Cold War. He lives in Bermuda.

From Siberia with Love: A story of exile, revolution and cigarettes

History

Methuen Publishing, Ltd.

An evocative portrait of the financial underbelly of Victorian London. On May 10, 1866, Quaker-run London bank Overend and Gurney collapsed, unleashing a catastrophe that was felt throughout the world. Amid a scandal that was the Victorian equivalent of Enron, Geoffrey Elliott paints a picture of greed and corruption and true-life characters that could have come from a Dickens novel. Geoffrey Elliott lives in Bermuda.

The Mystery of Overend & Gurney: A Financial Scandal in Victorian London

Economics

Denis Rake, born in 1901, was the son of a Times correspondent in Brussels and a Belgian soprano. He spent his youth in a circus—and in Occupied Belgium in World War I. Rake spent some years as the gay lover of various exotic European mentors. He was working at Drury Lane with Ivor Novello when war broke out. He became an SOE wireless operator, and served in France with immense courage on two missions, surviving capture by the Germans and escape across the Pyrenees. Slight of stature and defiantly gay even when living amid a band of maquis (resistance fighters) in the Auvergne, Rake was one of the most raffish and endearing of SOE's extraordinary gallery of stars, and was awarded the Military Cross for his bravery in battle.

The Shooting Star: The Colourful Life and Times of Denis Rake, MC

Leaders & Notable People

METHUEN

Dangerous Games

GARDNERS VI BOOKS AMS006

Who was Major Kavan Elliott, womanizer, wartime saboteur, rogue, and peacetime spy? Behind an ostensibly respectable business cover, his nomadic life entangled him in a web of deception, beautiful women, Communist double agents, and interrogation at the hands of the Gestapo and the Hungarian secret police. This is the extraordinary story of the quest undertaken by Kavan Elliott's son—the author, Geoffrey Elliott—for the truth about his remarkable father. His search takes him from the torture chambers of Budapest to the classified archives of the British Secret Intelligence Service, and reveals an astonishing tale of espionage, betrayal, romance, and double-dealing.

I Spy

Little, Brown Book Group

John Lodwick (1916-1959) was one of the great novelists of the early twentieth century. Yet his novels, and indeed his own extraordinary life story, have been virtually lost to the mists of time. Geoffrey Elliott here, for the first time, pieces together Lodwick's eventful life, from his youth in Ireland, to his wartime experiences in the SOE and Special Boat Service, his subsequent literary career and his untimely death in a car crash in Spain at the age of just 43. Initially acclaimed by Somerset Maugham and Anthony Burgess, soon after his death Lodwick's novels fell out of fashion and they have largely remained out-of-print since. Elliott makes the case for a revival in the fortunes of this singular English novelist, in a biography which sheds new light on the early twentieth century literary scene, the surrealist art world and the real-life experiences of World War II.

A Forgotten Man: The Life and Death of John Lodwick

Arts & Literature

I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd

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