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Title: Smart Cards : A Guide to Building and Managing Smart Card Applications by J. Thomas Monk, Henry N. Dreifus ISBN: 0-471-15748-1 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 24 December, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 1.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Proven irrelevant
Comment: Well, now it's 2002, and the the revolution has definitely not been televised. We've heard now from authors like these guys for about, oh, 10 years or so that smart cards are the next revolution. That it's just a matter of time before mag stripe cards are swept aside in this tidal wave of new technology.
Friends, it just ain't gonna happen here in the States. Despite massive attempts by GemPlus and other 'leaders' described in this book, the entire thing has been just one more marketing-driven attempt to force unneeded technology on the masses. The dog didn't hunt, and these 'visionaries' are now unwinding all their efforts here, sending thousands of programmers out on to the streets.
This thinly veiled advertisement, with very poor design and little original content, has suffered the ultimate indignity: history has rendered it all but irrelevant.
Rating: 1
Summary: Waste of time and money
Comment: I bought this book hoping it would give some ideas on how smart card technology may offer new business opportunities for my software development company, but found nothing of the sort. I have not found an answer to a single question I had, for that matter. The laguage is horrible, information is presented poorly, lots of totally useless details and almost nothing on the subject I was mostly interested in: how (and why) a company would embrace this tachnology to make money.
Rating: 1
Summary: Informercial, don't buy it.
Comment: Very disappointing. I am 75% through this book and struggling to finish it. Whilst the book has some good information (smart card lingo, players in the industry, trends...etc) most are useless because the materials are so badly organised. Filling up the book with charts, diagrams and detailed reference tables of smart card standards does NOT make it a useful book, all are illrelevant without much deeper explanation. Remember when you were in high school, you copied a few paragraphs from one book and a few from an other to "write" an essay --- it reads just like that, very amateurish. A lot of the so called "case study" blah about how good/bad the technology is, but no details. It's an informercial.... "Buy my stuff, and I'm going to make you lots of money. This man with only a high school education bought my tape barely over 3 weeks and he is now making $5000 a week,....blah, blah, blah".... where is the bloody proof ?! It's a damn Monday night informercial. Oh, I actually work for a smart card company so I may be bias. Amazon should introduce half a point, this book is a bit below 1.
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Title: Smart Cards: The Developer's Toolkit by Timothy M. Jurgensen, Scott B. Guthery, Tim Jurgensen, Scott Guthery ISBN: 0130937304 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 09 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Smart Cards: Seizing Strategic Business Opportunities by Catherine A. Allen, William J. Barr, Ron Schultz, Smart Card Forum ISBN: 0786311088 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $37.50 |
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Title: Smart Card Handbook, 2nd Edition by W. Rankl, W. Effing ISBN: 0471988758 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 18 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $155.00 |
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Title: Java Card (tm) Technology for Smart Cards: Architecture and Programmer's (The Java Series) by Zhiqun Chen ISBN: 0201703297 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 06 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Smart Card Security and Applications (Artech House Telecommunications Library) by Mike Hendry ISBN: 1580531563 Publisher: Artech House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $83.00 |
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