The development of the mobile-phone industry into what we know today required remarkable cooperation between companies, governments, and industrial sectors. Companies developing cellular infrastructure, cellular devices, cellular network services, and eventually software and mobile...

This compact history traces the computer industry from 1950s mainframes, through establishment of standards beginning in 1965, to personal computing in the 1980s and the Internet’s explosive growth since 1995. Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel Garcia-Swartz describe a steady trend toward...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Software Industry -- 2 Origins of the Software Contractor, the 1950s -- 3 Programming Services, the 1960s -- 4 Origins of the Software Products Industry,1965-1970 -- 5 The Shaping of the Software Products Industry, the 1970s -- 6 The...