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Digitale Revolution - Wie die Internet-Ökonomie unser Leben verändert: SPIEGEL AUDIO

Früher gab es Musik auf Platten und CDs, jetzt lassen sich die Titel im Netz herunterladen - ebenso wie Bücher: Das Hörbuch 'Digitale Revolution' basiert auf einer SPIEGEL-Serie über den dramatischen Wandel, der weit über die Musik- und Buchindustrie hinausgeht und bereits große Teil der Wirtschaft erfasst hat. Analysiert werden die tiefgreifenden Folgen für Unternehmen, Arbeitnehmer und Verbraucher, für Politik und Gesellschaft. Die Serie wird ergänzt durch weitere SPIEGEL-Beiträge, zum Beispiel über das Hightech-Imperium Google und den unheimlichen Aufstieg des Handelsriesen Amazon.

Der Spiegel (Author), Deutsche Blindenstudienanstalt E.V. (Narrator)

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The Internet of Things: The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series

We turn on the lights in our house from a desk in an office miles away. Our refrigerator alerts us to buy milk on the way home. A package of cookies on the supermarket shelf suggests that we buy it, based on past purchases. The cookies themselves are on the shelf because of a "smart" supply chain. When we get home, the thermostat has already adjusted the temperature so that it's toasty or bracing, whichever we prefer. This is the Internet of Things -- a networked world of connected devices, objects, and people. In this book, Samuel Greengard offers a guided tour through this emerging world and how it will change the way we live and work. Greengard explains that the Internet of Things (IoT) is still in its early stages. Smart phones, cloud computing, RFID (radio-frequency identification) technology, sensors, and miniaturization are converging to make possible a new generation of embedded and immersive technology. Greengard traces the origins of the IoT from the early days of personal computers and the Internet and examines how it creates the conceptual and practical framework for a connected world. He explores the industrial Internet and machine-to-machine communication, the basis for smart manufacturing and end-to-end supply chain visibility; the growing array of smart consumer devices and services -- from Fitbit fitness wristbands to mobile apps for banking; the practical and technical challenges of building the IoT; and the risks of a connected world, including a widening digital divide and threats to privacy and security. Finally, he considers the long-term impact of the IoT on society, narrating an eye-opening "Day in the Life" of IoT connections circa 2025.

Samuel Greengard (Author), Derek Shetterly (Narrator)

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Flood Your Websites and Blogs with Free Traffic: Quickly Learn How to Send Visitors to Your Web Site

There is a whole new world out there and it is still possible to draw a huge crowd to your website. What search engines like is the social media sharing that goes on with your site. If people can share your posts and articles with an easy button that lets your content reach Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or any of the other big name social media sites, the search engines will love you.

Amanda Eliza Bertha (Author), Annette Martin (Narrator)

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Quick Guide to WordPress and Pinterest, The: Surviving the Social Media Revolution

The popularity of Pinterest has taken off, many WordPress theme designs are now becoming more image focused. This means it’s now possible to find themes that actually encourage people to view your images more often. Many of these themes feature a graphic above the content snippet. You have the ability to entice visitors to individual pages based on the images you have. You can incorporate Pinterest into your WordPress site and automate some of your social networking tasks. This allows you to draw new visitors to your site from the Pins you put up on Pinterest. It allows you to increase your follower numbers right from your site without your visitors having to leave at all. It lets you post images that you’ve published on your blog directly to your Pinterest pin-board automatically. So, are you ready to combine the power of WordPress and Pinterest? Let’s get started…

Gazella D.S. Pistorious (Author), Rick Hoem (Narrator)

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Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Capture Your Data and Control Your World

Data is everywhere. We create it every time we go online, turn our phone in (or off), and pay with a credit card. The data is stored, studied, and bought and sold by corporations and governments for surveillance and for control. “Foremost security expert” (Wired) and best-selling author Bruce Schneier shows how this data has led to a double-edged internet – a Web that gives power that gives power to the people but is abused by the institutions on which those people depend. In DATA AND GOLIATH, Schneier reveals the full extent of surveillance, censorship, and propaganda in society today, examining the risks of cybercrime, cyberterrorism, and cyberwar. He shares technological, legal, and social solutions that can help shape a more equal, private, and secure world. This is a book everyone with an internet connection – or bank account, or smart device, or car, for that matter – needs to read.

Bruce Schneier (Author), Dan John Miller (Narrator)

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Agile Project Management QuickStart Guide: A Simplified Beginners Guide To Agile Project Management

Agile Project Management, Simplified Are you tired of being unprepared for changing project requirements? 'We welcome changing requirements even late in development.' That is one of the 12 Principles of Agile Project Management, and for many project managers changing requirements are a massive headache.Not the case with Agile.Over the last decade and a half, Agile Project Management has surged in popularity across the globe. Organizations of all types and sizes have leveraged Agile with enviable results. Agile Project Management is a flexible, responsive, and powerful tool for a project manager's toolkit. As a project manager, you know that Agile will deliver tremendous organizational benefits, but do you know enough about Agile to reap the rewards?The Agile Project Management QuickStart Guide from ClydeBank Business dives into the core mechanics and intricacies (along with the many variations and spin-offs) of Agile Project Management while maintaining a beginner-friendly approach. Stakeholder needs are always changing. Agile Project Management thrives on change. Written and designed with simplicity and ease of learning in mind, the Agile Project Management QuickStart Guide is the critical first step on your self-paced Agile learning journey. **New** Your purchase comes with free lifetime access to our collection of relevant digital assets. These guides, summaries, checklists, and cheat sheets enhance your learning journey and supplement this QuickStart Guide. You'll Learn... - The Origins of Agile: How a Group of 17 Software Professionals at a 2001 Conference in Chicago Gave Birth to the World's Most Iconic System of Project Management - Case Studies: How the US Department of Homeland Security, Yahoo! Inc, and Several Other Organizations Found Success through Agile Project Management - Agile Implementation Techniques: the How, Where, When, and Why of successful implementation - How to Use Agile to Improve Not Just Productivity and Product Quality, but also Employee Morale - How to Assess Scrum and the Many Other Variations of Agile to Determine the Best Fit for Your Organization

Clydebank Business (Author), Amy Barron Smolinski, Dave Barron, Peter Bierma (Narrator)

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Likeable Social Media, Revised and Expanded: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible B

The NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestseller-updated with today's hottest sites! A friend's recommendation is more powerful than any advertisement. In the world of Facebook, Twitter, Vine, Instagram, and beyond, that recommendation can travel farther and faster than ever before. Packed with brand-new case studies from today's emerging social sites, this updated edition of Likeable Social Media helps you harness the power of word-of-mouth marketing to transform your business. Listen to your customers and prospects. Deliver value, excitement, and surprise. And most important, learn how to truly engage your customers and help them spread the word.

Carrie Kerpen, Dave Kerpen, Mallorie Rosenbluth, Meg Riedinger (Author), Gary Regal (Narrator)

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Principles of Project Management Explained

Are you a busy project manager, or even just an employee that works on projects from time to time? You work on projects regularly, yet you rarely feel one hundred percent satisfied with them, and you feel as if the feedback from others is never perfect...If that is the case, then this book is an absolute must-read to improve your career! In this book, I discuss the principles of project management in a comprehensive and incredibly simple manner that will aid you in becoming the best at your job that you possibly can be. What you'll learn in this book: The basics of project management The different areas of project management, including: Integration management, cost management, time management, quality management, risk management, etc. Additional tips such as how to approach stakeholders for a project, how to create schedules and more! Read on to get motivated and learn how to create projects that are absolutely amazing.

Can Akdeniz (Author), Introbooks (Narrator)

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Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It

One of the world’s leading authorities on global security, Marc Goodman takes readers deep into the digital underground to expose the alarming ways criminals, corporations, and even countries are using new and emerging technologies against you—and how this makes everyone more vulnerable than ever imagined. Technological advances have benefited our world in immeasurable ways, but there is an ominous flip side: our technology can be turned against us. Hackers can activate baby monitors to spy on families, thieves are analyzing social media posts to plot home invasions, and stalkers are exploiting the GPS on smart phones to track their victims’ every move. We all know today’s criminals can steal identities, drain online bank accounts, and wipe out computer servers, but that’s just the beginning. To date, no computer has been created that could not be hacked—a sobering fact given our radical dependence on these machines for everything from our nation’s power grid to air traffic control to financial services. Yet, as ubiquitous as technology seems today, just over the horizon is a tidal wave of scientific progress that will leave our heads spinning. If today’s Internet is the size of a golf ball, tomorrow’s will be the size of the sun. Welcome to the Internet of Things, a living, breathing, global information grid where every physical object will be online. But with greater connections come greater risks. Implantable medical devices such as pacemakers can be hacked to deliver a lethal jolt of electricity and a car’s brakes can be disabled at high speed from miles away. Meanwhile, 3-D printers can produce AK-47s, bioterrorists can download the recipe for Spanish flu, and cartels are using fleets of drones to ferry drugs across borders. With explosive insights based upon a career in law enforcement and counterterrorism, Marc Goodman takes readers on a vivid journey through the darkest recesses of the Internet. Reading like science fiction, but based in science fact, Future Crimes explores how bad actors are primed to hijack the technologies of tomorrow, including robotics, synthetic biology, nanotechnology, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. These fields hold the power to create a world of unprecedented abundance and prosperity. But the technological bedrock upon which we are building our common future is deeply unstable and, like a house of cards, can come crashing down at any moment. Future Crimes provides a mind-blowing glimpse into the dark side of technological innovation and the unintended consequences of our connected world. Goodman offers a way out with clear steps we must take to survive the progress unfolding before us. Provocative, thrilling, and ultimately empowering, Future Crimes will serve as an urgent call to action that shows how we can take back control over our own devices and harness technology’s tremendous power for the betterment of humanity—before it’s too late.

Marc Goodman (Author), Marc Goodman, Robertson Dean (Narrator)

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Cybersecurity Leadership: Powering the Modern Organization

Widely acclaimed and cited by practitioners and scholars alike as the definitive book on cybersecurity leadership and governance appropriate for anyone within or outside the cybersecurity discipline. Explains cybersecurity, Chief Information Officer, Chief Information Security Officer roles, the role of ethical leadership and the need for perpetual innovation in the discipline. This is listed as one of the best books of all time in cybersecurity as well as management by BookAuthority. The book provides an authoritative peer reviewed definition of cybersecurity based on models explained in the book. It is a significant reference book for leadership in any organization; however, it specifically addresses the challenges unique to technology and cybersecurity. The book provides a business-level understanding of cybersecurity and critical leadership principles for interdisciplinary organizational leaders and technology professionals. It should be the starting point of anyone seeking to enter the cybersecurity field or gain a business level understanding of what is required for anyone to successfully implement cybersecurity in an organization.

Dr. Mansur Hasib (Author), Dr. Mansur Hasib (Narrator)

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Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon

Top cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare—one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb. In January 2010, inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency noticed that centrifuges at an Iranian uranium enrichment plant were failing at an unprecedented rate. The cause was a complete mystery—apparently as much to the technicians replacing the centrifuges as to the inspectors observing them. Then, five months later, a seemingly unrelated event occurred: A computer security firm in Belarus was called in to troubleshoot some computers in Iran that were crashing and rebooting repeatedly. At first, the firm’s programmers believed the malicious code on the machines was a simple, routine piece of malware. But as they and other experts around the world investigated, they discovered a mysterious virus of unparalleled complexity. They had, they soon learned, stumbled upon the world’s first digital weapon. For Stuxnet, as it came to be known, was unlike any other virus or worm built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it escaped the digital realm to wreak actual, physical destruction on a nuclear facility. In these pages, Wired journalist Kim Zetter draws on her extensive sources and expertise to tell the story behind Stuxnet’s planning, execution, and discovery, covering its genesis in the corridors of Bush’s White House and its unleashing on systems in Iran—and telling the spectacular, unlikely tale of the security geeks who managed to unravel a sabotage campaign years in the making. But Countdown to Zero Day ranges far beyond Stuxnet itself. Here, Zetter shows us how digital warfare developed in the US. She takes us inside today’s flourishing zero-day “grey markets,” in which intelligence agencies and militaries pay huge sums for the malicious code they need to carry out infiltrations and attacks. She reveals just how vulnerable many of our own critical systems are to Stuxnet-like strikes, from nation-state adversaries and anonymous hackers alike—and shows us just what might happen should our infrastructure be targeted by such an attack. Propelled by Zetter’s unique knowledge and access, and filled with eye-opening explanations of the technologies involved, Countdown to Zero Day is a comprehensive and prescient portrait of a world at the edge of a new kind of war.

Kim Zetter (Author), Joe Ochman (Narrator)

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@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex

A surprising, page-turning account of how the wars of the future are already being fought today The United States military currently views cyberspace as the “fifth domain” of warfare—alongside land, sea, air, and space—and the Department of Defense, National Security Agency, and CIA all field teams of hackers who can—and do—launch computer virus strikes against enemy targets. In fact, as @War shows, US hackers were crucial to our victory in Iraq. Shane Harris delves into the front lines of America’s new cyberwar. As recent revelations have shown, government agencies are joining with tech giants like Google and Facebook to collect vast amounts of information. The military has also formed a new alliance with tech and finance companies to patrol cyberspace, and Harris offers a deeper glimpse into this partnership than we have ever seen before. Finally, Harris explains what the new cybersecurity regime means for all of us who spend our daily lives bound to the Internet—and are vulnerable to its dangers. “Readers will squirm as they learn how every communications enterprise cooperates with the national security establishment. Harris delivers a convincing account of the terrible cyberdisasters that loom and the intrusive nature of the fight to prevent them.”—Publishers Weekly

Shane Harris (Author), Stephen R. Thorne (Narrator)

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