Research Catalog

Title

The information superhighway and private households : case studies of business impacts / Walter Brenner, Lutz Kolbe, (Eds.)

Publication

Berlin, Germany : Physica-Verlag, c1996.

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Additional Authors

• Brenner, Walter
• Kolbe, Lutz

Description

x, 427 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

The use of information technology in the private household for consumers gains in importance. A whole new world of computerized home applications is already in place or under development. The market potential for the future will arise from the fact that information technology influences all parts of our private life as the discussion on Information Superhighways, the Information Society, Video-on-Demand, Smart Houses, Interactive TV, Internet, Cyberspace or Multimedia shows. This book deals with infrastructures, applications, current projects and business impacts of information technology for the private home. After a first introductory section the second part discusses software, hardware and network issues. The third part explains the broad range of applications. The fourth links infrastructures and applications by a description of current projects in Asia, North America and Europe. Finally, the main business and market implications are explored. Authors from science and well-known international companies like IBM, Microsoft, Sony, Philips, Silicon Graphics, Oracle or Andersen Consulting introduce the new field of information technology for private households.

Subjects

• Telecommunication policy
• Information superhighway

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Computerized Information Processing of the Private Household: A Framework / Walter Brenner and Lutz Kolbe -- Microsoft Brings Personal Computing Home / Michaela Jaritz -- Digital Devices and Advanced Technology for the Consumer Market / Terry R. Hurley -- Bang & Olufsen's Integrated Home-Networking with Beolink / Peter Petersen -- Oracle Media -- Enabling the Information Age / Mary Callaghan -- SmartCards as Carrier of Personal Data and Documents / Bruno Struif -- Deutsche Telekom's Network Platform for Interactive Video Services / Norbert Maassen -- The Citizen's Information System "Dresden and the Frauenkirche (Church of Our Lady)" -- Realization, Experiences, Prospects / Manuela Rost-Hein -- Books of the Next Generation -- Reading on the Electronic Frontier / Florian Brody -- Electronic Agents and the Market Place: New Generations of Electronic Services for Consumers / Rob de Vogel -- Home Systems -- The Vision / David G. J. Fanshawe -- Teleshopping: Today's Solutions and Future Trends / Heiner Drathen -- Private Household Shopping Behavior / Heribert Popp, Stephan Thesmann and Peter Mertens -- Interactive Multimedia and In-Home Marketing / Jonne R. M. van der Drift and Luc Stakenborg -- New Media: A Growth Market in Erotica and Pornography for Beate Uhse / Petra Hoper -- SEGA Game Applications: Consoles, Games and Development Possibilities / Winnie Forster and Torsten Oppermann -- TV of the Future -- The Future of TV / Friedrich-Carl Wachs, Heinrich Bauer Verlag and Johann-Reinhardt Wachs -- Interactive Video-Services for the Residential Customer / Claus Sattler and Niels Klussmann -- Information Technology and Applications for Elderly and Disabled People / J. A. van Woerden -- The Information Society -- Developments in the Triad of Europe, North America and Japan / Roger Longhorn -- Home Automation -- Recent Developments in the Genesis and Diffusion of Intelligent Home Technology in Europe, Japan, and the USA / Thomas Heimer -- Multimedia Application Services / Sadami Kurihara -- Time Warner Cable Full Service Network -- Silicon Graphics Technology and Architecture Overview / Gary Sager -- Burda New Media's Multimedia Activities for Private Customers / Hubertus Hoffmann -- Agent Based Communication in Traffic Telematics / Christoph Mayser, Martin Romer and Georg Zimmermann -- New Products and Services for Private Households on the Information Highway: Facts and Obstacles / Joachim Niemeier -- New Visions of Information Technology and Postmodernism: Implications for Advertising and Marketing Communications / Alladi Venkatesh, Ruby Roy Dholakia and Nikhilesh Dholakia -- Seven Theses on Successful Market Development for Home Management Systems / Kai Howaldt and Mirko-Stefan Jeck -- Stand-alone Multimedia in the Private Household / Felix Goedhart and Thomas Kunstner -- Strategic Management and Transformation in Converging Industries -- Towards the Information Society / Thomas Baubin and Bernd W. Wirtz -- The Multimedia Marketplace in the Private Household -- Some Observations and Comments / Georg Rainer Hofmann -- Information Technologies in the Home: Policies and Markets / Norbert Mundorf -- Computer Use at Home -- A Cultural Challenge to Technology Development / Werner Rammert -- The Home in Transition: Social Implications of Home Information Technologies / Felix van Rijn.

ISBN

3790809071

OCLC

• 34893097
• SCSB-11960775

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library