How the Internet Works by Preston Gralla

How the Internet Works by Preston Gralla

Shows you how the Internet can deliver various kinds of information in areas such as: web pages, email, music, video, and more. This work helps you understand the Internet technologies, from blogs and podcasting to wikis and BitTorrent. It also lets you to protect yourself from Internet dangers, including phishing, and wireless hacking.

Preston Gralla

is the award-winning author of 20 books, including

How Wireless Works

, How To Expand and Upgrade PCs, and The

Complete Idiot’s Guide to Protecting Yourself Online

. He is an executive

editor and columnist for CNet and ZDNet; is a technology columnist

for the Dallas Morning News; and has written about technology

for many magazines and newspapers, including USA Today, PC

Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Boston Magazine, PC/Computing,

Computerworld

, and FamilyPC among many others. Gralla has won

several writing and editing awards, including one from the

Computer Press Association for the best feature article in a computer

magazine.

As a well-known expert on computers and the Internet, he has appeared

frequently on numerous TV and radio shows and networks,

including the CBS Early Show, CNN, National Public Radio’s All

Things Considered, MSNBC, CNBC, TechTV, and CNet Radio.

He was the founding managing editor of the well-known newspaper

PC Week

and a founding editor of PC/Computing. Under his editorship,

PC/Computing

was a finalist for General Excellence from the

National Magazine Awards.

Gralla lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife Lydia, children

Gabriel and Mia, and a rabbit named Polichinelle. He also

writes the free Gralla’s Internet Insider email newsletter. To subscribe

to it for free, send an email to preston@gralla.com with the

words SUBSCRIBE NETINSIDER on the subject line.

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ISBN 13	9780789736260
ISBN 10	0789736268
Title	How the Internet Works
Author	Preston Gralla
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pearson Education (US)
Year published	2006-11-30
Number of pages	432
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