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Cheat Sheet So that's an awful lot of big name tech companies feasting off of one man's creative energies. Unsurprisingly it does not include big name mobile OS makers such as Symbian. Ha, ha. You can sit back down - this is about Android: Google's up-and...
[12 Mar 2008]
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 They don't need to be filed by name but could, for example, be filed by amount of business transacted, geographical location or type of business.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the government to...
[28 Aug 2007]
Cheat Sheet I remember in the old days, having to sign my name… 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...
[13 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet Reuters, SonyBMG, Adidas and Reebok to name a few. 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. But I get to run around blowing away monsters, right?
[09 Nov 2006]
Cheat Sheet Has the diminutive popstar changed his name again? Prince2? Funny. But no, it's got nothing to do with him. So what is Prince2 then? It is one of the most widely used project management methodologies around and stands for Projects IN a Controlled...
[07 Nov 2006]
Cheat Sheet By and large, yes it does - though there are still relatively few companies making a real name for themselves in this space compared to the real big names who are still shipping box-loads of CDs with software the user must install.
[31 Oct 2006]
Cheat Sheet Where'd the name come from? The 2.0 name is a clear allusion to the naming convention of software updates - this is the internet version 2.0, get it? Web 2.0? I'm learning to spot a buzzword when I hear one and I think I just have.
[21 Aug 2006]
Cheat Sheet Another name in the frame is O2, which trialled an FMC service back in 2004. What is FMC then? Fixed-mobile convergence. Er, great. What's that when it's at home? Fixed-mobile convergence, or FMC, is all about making calls over both your landline...
[23 Jun 2006]
Cheat Sheet If you have a list of sales leads, or a contact database, it makes sense that you should be able to click on a name and see a Google Map of where that company is. Likewise you should be able to click on that name and place a Skype call, or send an...
[26 May 2006]
Cheat Sheet You will even know who you've borrowed from - probably their first name and rough location, such as 'James of West London'. A Cheat Sheet about Italian soup. Tasty. I think you'll find that's zuppa. Zopa stands for 'Zone of possible agreement' - a...
[18 Apr 2006]
Cheat Sheet Hence the name. 'Second Chance Tuesday', what's that all about then? Well, you remember First Tuesday. No. Oh, OK. Then it's time for a bit of a history lesson. Back in 1998 four young guns of the dot-com boom decided to set up a networking...
[07 Feb 2006]
Cheat Sheet Rather than hand over cash, sign your name or even do the chip and PIN thing when you buy something, the wondrous gift of technology has made it possible to make a purchase by tapping a teller's till with your wallet or mobile phone.
[11 Oct 2005]
Cheat Sheet The act was written in 2000, as its name suggest, so departments have had five years to install new systems to handle requests. What's this one about then? The Freedom of Information Act 2000 is designed to give people easy access to information...
[12 Sep 2005]
Cheat Sheet If you haven't guessed, it gets its name from the ubiquitous Apple iPod. Podcasting, then. All sounds a bit A Space Odyssey to me. Can't argue with you there. So what is it actually? Unlike a number of its rivals, the iPod doesn't come with a radio...
[17 Jun 2005]
Cheat Sheet Launched in 2001 the subject line and attachment name played upon individuals' naivety and most people's need to be loved. I'm thinking community projects - building irrigation systems perhaps? Then you couldn't be more wrong.
[15 Nov 2004]
Cheat Sheet OK, well I know what computer viruses are so this should be straightforward - the name is just how they are distinguished from one another and the warning is an indication of how problematic things are at a given time?
[08 Nov 2004]
Cheat Sheet If you take a quick look down the WiMax Forum's list of members, there's a good number of mobile firms and telcos in there - BT, Deutsche Telekom, Motorola and Siemens to name a few. Sounds like a buzzword.
[12 Oct 2004]
Cheat Sheet For example the GSM camp, driven by the GSM Association, has been interested in rebranding 3G as 3GSM, as in the name of the annual trade show, only that naturally excludes the CDMA camp. Simple - doesn't it just mean faster mobile networks?
[04 Aug 2004]
Cheat Sheet What we're talking about here are software applications that find their way onto users' machines for the purposes of, as the name suggests, spying on them. OK, I've seen the Bond films, I know what spyware is.
[29 Jul 2004]
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