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Cheat Sheet: Social networking

Cheat Sheet Social networking - that's where you stand around chatting to people and eating canapés? In an interview with silicon.com, Michael Birch, CEO of social networking site Bebo, referred to this new breed of adverts - call it 'advertising 2.0' if you...

Tags: myspace, facebook, social networking

[15 Jun 2007]

Cheat Sheet: Wi-fi

Cheat Sheet With UK broadband penetration reaching 50 per cent of homes, most new sign-ups are asking for wi-fi rather than fixed-line and most ISPs throw the necessary networking kit in for free. Getting online when you have a coffee or a pint, that sort of...

Tags: wlan, wi-fi, cheat sheet

[24 May 2007]

Cheat Sheet: Blade servers and PCs

Cheat Sheet The rack provides power, cooling and networking while the blade provides the computers on the network (the clients) with the services they need. So what's all this about blades? I thought they were what samurai warriors use to kill their enemies.

Tags: blade servers, pc blades, blades, sun microsystems

[24 Jan 2007]

Cheat Sheet: WCIT

Cheat Sheet These days it's more about charity, education and networking. You'll never guess. It's. Worshipful Company of Information Technologists Worshipful IT? So these are the sort of guys that start praying when the servers go down?

Tags: charity

[04 Sep 2006]

Cheat Sheet: Web 2.0

Cheat Sheet Well, web 2.0 is a bit of a catch-all which covers a broad range of new online services, user-generated content, communities and social networking tools. 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: FMC

Cheat Sheet Nokia has already thrown in its lot with the FMCers, launching a couple of dual mode devices and needless to say all the networking types - such as Alcatel and Ericsson - are suitably jazzed about the whole thing.

Tags: voip, cheat sheet, fmc, fixed mobile convergence

[23 Jun 2006]

Cheat Sheet: Wireless mesh networking

Cheat Sheet Go on then, mesh networking - why should I care? Theoretically, any radio technology - or a combination of several - can be used in mesh networking but wi-fi is the most commonly used. Yes but according to those who monitor such things, mesh...

Tags: cheat sheet, mesh networking, mesh

[24 Feb 2006]

Cheat Sheet: Second Chance Tuesday

Cheat Sheet Judith Legg is the founder of networking group, The Glasshouse. Back in 1998 four young guns of the dot-com boom decided to set up a networking organisation. 'Second Chance Tuesday', what's that all about then?

[07 Feb 2006]

Cheat Sheet: The A-Z of 802.11

Cheat Sheet Wireless networking is part of the furniture these days but the zoo of standards still baffles the non-specialist. Different countries have different parts of the 2.4 and 5GHz bands available for unlicensed wireless networking.d seeks to help...

Tags: standard, wi-fi standards, 802.11, wlan

[04 Apr 2003]

Cheat Sheet: Storage virtualisation

Cheat Sheet: Storage virtualisation

Cheat Sheet The Storage Networking Industry Association - SNIA, for those in the know - is working on defining virtualisation. Sounds a bit fancy Simply put, virtualisation is the pooling of data from multiple devices into what appears to be a single device...

[27 May 2002]

Cheat Sheet: 10 Gigabit Ethernet

Cheat Sheet: 10 Gigabit Ethernet

Cheat Sheet Originally created in the 1970s by Valley's networking firms, Ethernet ran at 10Mbps and provided fast file- and resource-sharing between networked PCs. As the name suggests this is the Ethernet networking protocol built for speed.

[31 Oct 2001]

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