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Cheat Sheet: FTTx

Cheat Sheet But, like the ADSL we know now, such technologies see speeds decrease the further away the premises are from the telephone exchange and it's thought the 24Mbps speeds are only achievable for those less than a few hundred metres away.

Tags: fttp, fttc, ftth, fibre to the home

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[11 May 2007]

Cheat Sheet: Second Life

Cheat Sheet The exchange rate for this virtual currency tends to stay around 250 Linden Dollars to the US dollar. Love it! Cool weapons, blowing away bad guys. Guess again. You're thinking of Half Life. Second Life is a very different kettle of virtual fish.

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[09 Nov 2006]

Cheat Sheet: Software as a service

Cheat Sheet Similarly there are on-demand offerings out there that will offer users a hosted alternative to Microsoft exchange, outlook calendar, Excel. As a service? I don't understand. You're not the only one. What we're talking about here is the use of...

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

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[31 Oct 2006]

Cheat Sheet: SOA

Cheat Sheet One real-world example is the London Stock Exchange, which has used an SOA to enable its systems to communicate directly with those of the various financial firms it must work with. SOA? It stands for service-oriented architecture.

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[08 Aug 2006]

Cheat Sheet: P2P lending with Zopa

Cheat Sheet It's effectively a peer-to-peer lending and borrowing exchange. A Cheat Sheet about Italian soup. Tasty. I think you'll find that's zuppa. Zopa stands for 'Zone of possible agreement' - a term from business theory which basically defines the...

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[18 Apr 2006]

Cheat sheet: Difference between mm02 and 02

Cheat Sheet Under the name BT Wireless, mm02 was the BT mobile arm that was then spun off as a separate company late last year.mm02 started trading on the stock exchange on 19 November, raising a considerable sum for its former parent - which had buckets of...

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[24 Jun 2002]

Cheat sheet: Mobile and wireless security

Cheat Sheet PKI relies on the exchange of a set of keys, which is just actually a bunch of numbers. OK, let's start with mobile security. Why should I care? I mean there's very little I can do with my phone at the moment except call my wife to record the...

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[14 Feb 2002]