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Cheat Sheet: Supercomputing

Cheat Sheet Microsoft has even developed a supercomputer-in-a-box with a relatively tiny price tag of $50,000. Is that just a PC wearing a cape and its underpants over its keyboard? No, a supercomputer is a computer which is considered to be at the frontline...

Tags: supercomputing, blue gene, petaflop, ibm

[20 Nov 2007]

Cheat Sheet: Software as a service

Cheat Sheet By and large, yes it does - though there are still relatively few companies making a real name for themselves in this space compared to the real big names who are still shipping box-loads of CDs with software the user must install.

Tags: netsuite, salesforce automation, saas, software as a service

[31 Oct 2006]

Cheat Sheet: IPTV

Cheat Sheet It's certain that people will come up with set-ups to appeal - most likely a box and screen configuration. However, don't bin your Freeview box or rip down your satellite dish just yet. Is this another new TV channel on my digibox?

Tags: iptv

[27 Mar 2006]

Cheat Sheet: Security appliances

Cheat Sheet Well as you might imagine, it's an appliance - often a black or silver (techies may call it 'gun metal') box - which handles a lot of your security needs such as antivirus, anti-spam and content filtering.

Tags: cyber security, appliance, computer security, security appliances

[20 Feb 2006]

Cheat Sheet: Bluetooth

Cheat Sheet: Bluetooth

Cheat Sheet Most of those cheeky manufacturers are omitting to declare on the box what other devices their products can be used with. The name doesn't give much away, does it? Not really. Bluetooth technology is named after a Danish King, Harald Blatand...

[12 Mar 2002]

Cheat Sheet: Spam

Cheat Sheet: Spam

Cheat Sheet Real spam isn't Amazon emailing you about their latest offers because you forgot to tick the "don't send me mail" box when you bought a book. What is it? It's unwanted email. The electronic form of the postal junk mail you receive every morning.

[03 Jan 2002]

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