Harry Newton

Harry Newton

Harry Newton is a writer, consultant, investor and public speaker. Newton writes a daily column called In Search of the Perfect Investment. Recently his "search" took him into auction rate preferreds (ARPs), now classed as one of his dumber investments. In February, 2008, the auctions failed, Newton got locked into his ARPs and Newton began a new blog devoted to keeping himself and every other ARPs investor up to date. It's called AuctionRatePreferreds.org.

In an earlier life, Newton and his partner, Gerry Friesen co-founded seven monthly magazines – Call Center, Computer Telephony, Imaging, LAN (now Network Magazine), Teleconnect, Telecom Gear and Technology Investor. They also co-founded the immensely successful shows Call Center Demo and Computer Telephony Conference and Exposition, which, in its last year under their control, attracted 26,000 people. They also published over 40 books on networking, imaging, telecom and computer telephony. Friesen and Newton sold their publishing company to Miller Freeman (now CMP) in September, 1997.

Newton also writes the best-selling Newton’s Telecom Dictionary -- The Dictionary of Telecommunications, Networking and The Internet, now in its 24rd edition -- 1,056 pages and published most recently in March, 2008. Each day Newton and his editors add the newest words, expand and improve definitions of old words. The dictionary now contains definitions for over 24,500 terms. It has sold over 757,500 copies. It has become an industry "bible" and been favorably review by the telecom, computing and general press:

  "A must-read." -- Interactive Week
  "A page-turner that invites use." -- IEEE
  "A fixture on the desks of many who deal with the technical world." -- The New York Times
  "An essential resource." -- PC Magazine
  "We rate this essential resource publication with 5 stars. If you are involved in IT, communications, cabling, or facilities management, you don't want to leave home without it." -- Frank Bisbee
  "Your dictionary has kept me from NOT looking like an idiot several times, and I have years of experience in telecom. -- John Balazik

Amazon gave Newton's Telecom Dictionary its top five stars
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