networks in cheat sheets
Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer
Cheat Sheet BBC iPlayer: all the coverage BBC signs up with iTunes BBC's iPlayer is go BBC iPlayer sparks broadband row 16,000 back iPlayer petition Leader: Time for a ceasefire in iPlayer row BBC tech... [05 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Galileo
Cheat Sheet The EU feels European sat-nav users need an alternative to the US GPS or Russia's Glonass military satellite networks for navigating around the continent. What's a 16th century scientist got to do with technology? [28 Jan 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Mobile TV
Cheat Sheet UK operators touting mobile telly offerings are relying on streaming data over 3G networks, so users must have a 3G handset. As I mentioned before, there are problems with using 3G networks for mobile TV. [22 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Femtocell
Cheat Sheet In short, to bring better mobile coverage at the edge of cellular networks. 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... [25 Sep 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Grey nets
Cheat Sheet Instead they are networks of applications and devices. What about something like file sharing on peer-to-peer networks? Companies need to understand what is happening on their networks - after all how can you secure something you don't know about? [06 Jul 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Social networking
Cheat Sheet Some see social networks becoming juggernauts of media consumption and distribution, giving web users a forum for locating and sharing their own media (a natural extension of the web 2.0 user-generated content trend). [15 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Wi-fi
Cheat Sheet A lot of individuals and businesses are apparently not securing their wireless networks.silicon.com's CIO Jury said they consider rogue hotspots to be a security threat and several high profile hacks - including the TJX breach where more than 45... [24 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: FTTx
Cheat Sheet In their present form, copper networks can offer speeds of around 8Mbps. In other countries which don't have legacy copper networks, installing fibre becomes a more cost effective option. Good for your digestion, so I hear. [11 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: M2M
Cheat Sheet It's pretty much doing what it says on the tin - it's where two machines communicate with each other without human intervention, typically over wireless networks (although M2M can also make use of good old-fashioned wired communications too). [09 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Second Life
Cheat Sheet CNET Networks Second Life? 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: Mobile location-based services
Cheat Sheet However, location-based services or LBS, to keep it short, are all about using the power of mobile networks to locate a user and provide services specific to the location they're in at the time. Aren't most services location-based? [29 Sep 2006]
Cheat Sheet: FMC
Cheat Sheet While technically there's nothing wrong with the service - the handover between the networks is fine and so on - the pricing just doesn't seem to be floating everyone's boat. What is FMC then? Fixed-mobile convergence. [23 Jun 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Wireless mesh networking
Cheat Sheet There are two types of mesh networks, one where every node is connected to every other node and another, known as a partial mesh network, where each node is only connected to some of the others in the network. [24 Feb 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Smart phone operating systems
Cheat Sheet Some smart phones will work on 3G networks - in some ways better than they can now - but most 3G phones on the market now aren't smart phones. My mobile has an operating system? Yes. I didn't realise that. [02 Nov 2004]
Cheat Sheet: WiMax
Cheat Sheet Using the WiMax standard means you can wirelessly access broadband networks, just like with Wi-Fi, only over much greater distances. One, for those people still out of the reach of normal broadband networks it could prove to be a nifty way of... [12 Oct 2004]
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