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Cheat Sheet: Galileo

Cheat Sheet This was resolved in November when Spain was offered a deal whereby a secondary ground station - initially to monitor emergency service operations - could become a ground control station if the upgrade was funded by the country.

Tags: galileo, satellite, sat nav, europe

[28 Jan 2008]

Cheat Sheet: Business intelligence

Cheat Sheet Well, as a small business, if you're turning a profit you might not worry about some of those inefficiencies and see them as a cost of doing business but if you run 500 large businesses across the country these issues become incredibly more complex.

Tags: sas, business intelligence

[03 Oct 2006]

Cheat Sheet: Mobile location-based services

Cheat Sheet Operators can find you judging how far away you are from each mobile base station (the masts that send and receive communications to your phones) and so get a decent idea where you are in the country.

Tags: location based services, lbs

[29 Sep 2006]

Cheat Sheet: NFC and contactless payments

Cheat Sheet Around ten million of the devices had been shipped and 100 million NFC chips have been shipped around the country, most on smart cards. Does this have anything to do with the colonel and his seven secret herbs and spices?

Tags: docomo, philips, nfc, felica

[20 Apr 2006]

Cheat Sheet: Sepa

Cheat Sheet On the consumer side of things, if Sepa comes into being by 2010, it could mean you'll be able to buy things on your card in another European country and pay nothing more than you would domestically. What's that?

Tags: sepa

[14 Feb 2006]

Cheat Sheet: Grid computing

Cheat Sheet: Grid computing

Cheat Sheet Grids connect up computers - usually not in the same building or even the same country - with the idea of joining up power and resources of disparate machines. Grid computing. Sounds like something out of the Matrix.

Tags: seti, grid

[05 Jan 2005]

Cheat Sheet: The WEEE Directive

Cheat Sheet: The WEEE Directive

Cheat Sheet Rwanda is one country where Computer Aid has particularly active. The WEEE Directive? Surely you're taking the pi. Not at all - this has nothing to do with euphemism, it stands for the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive.

Tags: weee directive, pc recycling

[29 Oct 2004]

Cheat Sheet: Biometrics

Cheat Sheet: Biometrics

Cheat Sheet It was actually a relative who removed his grandfather's finger posthumously and used it to cheat the country's pension system for as long as he got away with it. Biometrics? Go on, explain what it is then.

Tags: biometrics, cards, print, fingerprint

[20 Apr 2004]

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