internet in cheat sheets
Cheat Sheet: The semantic web
Cheat Sheet The semantic web is being touted as the next stage in the evolution of the internet, no less. What's this all about then? I thought that was web 2.0? Web 2.0 was all about the new generation of online applications - like... [02 Oct 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Faster Payments Services
Cheat Sheet Some banks however have been providing FPS to their individual customers for telephone and internet transactions since it went live earlier this year. The combination of the words 'faster' and 'payment' can only be a... [22 Sep 2008]
Cheat Sheet: SEO
Cheat Sheet Keywords are the terms internet users enter into search engines to search for content. Hmm, not quite, but crawlers do come into it. Not outer space beings, mind, but bots crawling the World Wide Web. [11 Sep 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Microblogging
Cheat Sheet Microblogging services like Twitter offer another channel for keeping people in the loop about day-to-day stuff that doesn't necessarily merit a specific pronouncement, especially a large group of people - or 'community' to use another... [02 Sep 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Cloud computing
Cheat Sheet The other big traditional tech vendors are all working on cloud services, with Microsoft starting to really embrace the internet following its initial slow start and SAP is working on an ambitious software package called... [01 Aug 2008]
Cheat Sheet: QR codes
Cheat Sheet Some phones have barcode scanning software pre-loaded (again, much more likely if you live in Japan, but Nokia has also shown an interest in barcode readers so it's worth checking out what your model has to offer) but there are software... [28 May 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Google Android
Cheat Sheet Well, as you already know - unless you really have been living on another planet - Google is the big cheese in internet search, merrily whupping the asses of Microsoft and Yahoo! An industry that is becoming increasingly... [12 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Encryption
Cheat Sheet Software is used to encrypt all sorts of data to stop unscrupulous sorts getting that information, from credit card details passing over the internet to emails and company databases. Isn't that something to do with the... [28 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Femtocell
Cheat Sheet I can't be exhaustive here but there are issues around interference, security (cellular networks are generally pretty secure, home internet connections not so), roaming from one femtocell to another (on purpose or... [25 Sep 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Social networking
Cheat Sheet Social networking is the business of engaging and interacting with other internet users in a communal online space. Sure there's no actual flesh-pressing - or wine-quaffing - in cyberspace but the... [15 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet: The $100 laptop
Cheat Sheet Basically some clever types are trying to build a load of laptops for poor children who can't afford to get on the internet. It's green and has a handle - is it a watering can? No, it's the $100 laptop. [29 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Wi-fi
Cheat Sheet Aren't there health concerns about wireless internet? 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... [24 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: FTTx
Cheat Sheet If we're not going to get fibre any time soon over here, will we get 100Mbps internet some other way? Good for your digestion, so I hear. Apparently so. But we're not talking about that sort of fibre. [11 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: M2M
Cheat Sheet The whole M2M phenomenon has even reached the curious ears of the European Commission which favours the unwieldy moniker of 'the internet of things' to describe it. Other pundits have come up with the clunker web 3.0 to... [09 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Six Sigma
Cheat Sheet Take an internet connection. All Greek to me. Very funny. Why the six, why the sigma? It's a statistical term. You'll find 'sigma' in all manner of standard deviation calculations - or, for the less mathematical, the... [30 Nov 2006]
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