2008 in cheat sheets
Cheat Sheet: Google Android
Cheat Sheet Run! The robots are here to take over! Ha, ha. You can sit back down - this is about Android: Google's up-and-coming open operating system for mobile phones… Mobiles you say? Alright, tell me more… Well, as you already know - unless you really have... [12 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Galileo
Cheat Sheet What's a 16th century scientist got to do with technology? I see what you're thinking but this isn't the Galileo from Pisa but Europe's proposed global navigation satellite network. Perhaps the European Union (EU) is hoping it'll live up to the... [28 Jan 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Mobile TV
Cheat Sheet What's all this about mobile TV then? Is that when I download clips onto my phone? People falling over, pop videos, stuff like that? Mobile TV means video content that's either streamed or broadcast direct to your mobile phone - rather than video... [22 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet: The $100 laptop
Cheat Sheet It's green and has a handle - is it a watering can? No, it's the $100 laptop. Basically some clever types are trying to build a load of laptops for poor children who can't afford to get on the internet. [29 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: BT's 21CN
Cheat Sheet I'd like to talk about BT's 21CN. Good for you. What would you like to talk about? I'd like to know what it is, for a start. It's a good question - BT's 21CN is just shorthand for BT's 21st Century Network. [14 Nov 2006]
Cheat Sheet: SOA
Cheat Sheet SOA? It stands for service-oriented architecture. Sometimes people talk about SOAs, even pronouncing it as a word. Oh great, another alphabet soup acronym to confuse us all. Give me the 35,000ft view. [08 Aug 2006]
Cheat Sheet: NFC and contactless payments
Cheat Sheet NFC eh? Does this have anything to do with the colonel and his seven secret herbs and spices? That's KFC, you dolt. NFC (near field communications) is all about paying for stuff with your mobile, among other applications. [20 Apr 2006]
Cheat Sheet: E-government deadlines
Cheat Sheet E-government? Sounds like a clubber's dream come true. Ha Ha. Electronic government is going to transform the way the public sector communicates with the average Joe on the street, or so Whitehall hopes. [01 Dec 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Location-based services
Cheat Sheet What on earth is this all about? Don't you mean "Where on earth? sorry). Location-based services - or LBS, to the initiated - help you find out where you are or where something else is when you're out and about in town, or even lost out there in... [02 Jan 2002]
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