Dictionary of e-Business: A Definitive Guide to Technology and Business Terms

New technologies spawn neologisms at a frightening rate. New ways of working need new words to describe them and we need new words, with good definitions, to orientate ourselves more ably in IT's new spaces. A dictionary may not be the most obvious nor optimal tool for keeping up and getting on but books still have many advantages in our e-saturated world, not least in explaining that world back to us in formats, and through mediums, we are at ease with.

Francis Botto's Dictionary of E-Business is subtitled "a definitive guide to technology and business terms" a subtitle this accelerated world is, in reality, always going to make a mockery of: whatever is defined can be redefined and nothing degrades meaning more quickly than technology. That withstanding, Botto's dictionary is well presented, clear and timely and it makes a pretty good stab at living up to the promise on its cover. Definitions range from AAA server to Zoom options and include symbol definitions and good, pithy descriptions of key computer languages and their functions. It is easy to get lost in IT's language--Botto's book makes a good map! --Mark Thwaite