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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 Is this another one of those shiny Apple gadgets from Cupertino? Not quite.iPlayer is actually the BBC's online on-demand TV service. Tell me more… Well users can download or stream BBC content broadcast during the preceding seven days and watch it...
[05 Mar 2008]
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 CRM - yet another of those dreaded IT industry three letter acronyms. You could say that but CRM - despite being a tech industry buzzword bandied about over the past few years - actually stands for something close to the heart of most businesses...
[08 Jan 2008]
Cheat Sheet Encryption? Isn't that something to do with the Enigma machine and secret service shenanigans? Yes and no. Encryption is a well-used method for protecting information but it takes on a whole new role in the modern computer age.
[28 Nov 2007]
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 Bust through tech jargon with silicon.com's Cheat Sheets. Supercomputing? 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 in terms of processing...
[20 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet For more on femtocells, check out the video cheat sheet here… I'll avoid the Austin Powers gags. Thanks. Tell me, what does it mean? A femtocell is a small cellular base station - some might say picocell - that will connect to broadband connections...
[25 Sep 2007]
Cheat Sheet 1998? That's a bit out of date isn't it? Not really. The Data Protection Act 1998 only came into force in 2000 and businesses didn't have to be fully compliant until October 2001. It takes a while for some legislation to get warmed up, you know.
[28 Aug 2007]
Cheat Sheet You're worried about grey nets? Well, a bit of bicarbonate of soda in your wash will get those curtains sparkling. I'm laughing inside, truly. But these grey nets are not really grey and they're not really nets.
[06 Jul 2007]
Cheat Sheet Social networking - that's where you stand around chatting to people and eating canapés? Not quite. If traditional networking means mingling with like-minded people, swapping contact details and making connections that could help you further your...
[15 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet What is it? Chip and PIN cards look the same as standard magnetic-strip cards, but inside the chip and PIN cards have a computer chip. The main difference to you is that instead of signing for each purchase you enter a four-digit number into a...
[13 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet Gateway Review? So what's this all about? Gateway Reviews are what the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) uses to measure the progress of big government and public sector projects. They were introduced by the OGC in 2000 to track the progress of...
[07 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet What have giant killer plants got to do with technology? You're thinking of Triffids. MiFID stands for the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. Having said that, the way some companies are reacting, you'd think they were being chased by...
[05 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet Start off by telling me what Itil stands for. But of course - IT infrastructure library. And what does that mean? It refers to a set of best practices for delivering quality IT services within public and private sector organisations.
[05 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet Virtualisation? So I get to put on a funky headset and walk around a simulated landscape shooting aliens? Okay, enough with the virtual reality of yester year. We're talking about virtualisation in terms of the creation of a virtual version of...
[04 Jun 2007]
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 Getting online when you have a coffee or a pint, that sort of thing? You're not wrong. Since the turn of the century, wi-fi hotspots have really taken off and it's almost impossible now to find a public place or office that doesn't offer wi-fi access.
[24 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet Fibre then. Good for your digestion, so I hear. Apparently so. But we're not talking about that sort of fibre. We're talking about fibre in the broadband sense - as in fibre to the home (FTTH), fibre to the premises (FTTP), fibre to the cabinet...
[11 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet M2M. Yeah, I think I got their last album. Rockin'. You might be a fan of Norwegian girl bands but I'm talking about the other M2M - machine-to-machine communications. Oh, of course. What's that all about then?
[09 May 2007]
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