deals in cheat sheets
Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer
Cheat Sheet Illustrating the corporation's commitment, during the past year the Beeb has signed deals with IBM, YouTube and Apple's iTunes, to name but a few. Not quite.iPlayer is actually the BBC's online on-demand TV service. [05 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet: MiFID
Cheat Sheet Businesses will have to be able to prove 'best execution' on deals - which is likely to have to take into account issues such as price, venue, cost and speed. What have giant killer plants got to do with technology? [05 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet: The Computer Misuse Act
Cheat Sheet Section 35 of the Police and Justice Act deals with "making, supplying or obtaining articles for use in computer misuse offences" - which translates into the criminalising of a whole new swathe of IT society. [29 Nov 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Basel II
Cheat Sheet Basel II is an international business standard to ensure any large company that deals in money has enough cash at hand to cover all the risks it faces. Basel II? But I though there was only one season on Fawlty Towers? [22 Aug 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Windows XP Service Pack 2
Cheat Sheet The way it deals with potential security threats - malicious code dressed up as various attachments - has also changed. XP SP2? Eh? That's XP Service Pack 2 - or the slightly more soundbite-friendly XP Reloaded. [06 Jul 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Sarbanes-Oxley
Cheat Sheet This should mean traders can't contact one another, or analysts, 'on the sly' and deals can't be 'lost in the muddy waters of business'. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act - what on earth is that? It's the name of a piece of US compliance legislation, with... [10 Jun 2004]
Cheat Sheet: MMS
Cheat Sheet The idea is that mobile operators will do deals with other companies to provide fantastic content over the service. Oh no - not another acronym! Yes, afraid so. MMS stands for Multimedia Messaging Service. [09 Aug 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Microsoft Passport
Cheat Sheet However, it's harder and harder to avoid - Microsoft has deals with lastminute.com, Egg, Expedia, QXL ricardo to name but a few. Passport is the centrepiece of Microsoft's .NET initiative, which is all about web services. [09 Nov 2001]
Cheat Sheet: i-mode
Cheat Sheet On the back of its domestic success, NTT DoCoMo has struck deals which may see AT&T Wireless and Taiwan's KG Telecom as well as European operators Telefonica, TIM in Italy, and KPN Mobile (with networks in Holland, Belgium and Germany) take up... [08 Nov 2001]
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