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Cheat Sheet iPlayer uses peer-to-peer technology for the download service, allowing content to be downloaded from the nearest point in the network, meaning not all content has to come directly from BBC servers. Not quite.iPlayer is actually the BBC's online on...
[05 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet Fair point and this is where digital certificates come in. Encryption? Isn't that something to do with the Enigma machine and secret service shenanigans? Yes and no. Encryption is a well-used method for protecting information but it takes on a...
[28 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet The key point is broadcasting is a process that sends data from one to many, while streaming is a one-to-one data transfer and can therefore be hamstrung by bandwidth limitations. What's all this about mobile TV then?
[22 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet What's now femtocell was originally called Access Point Base Station, and if you think about an access point for something like wi-fi, expect a similar device. Femtocell. I'll avoid the Austin Powers gags.
[25 Sep 2007]
Cheat Sheet What's the point of them? Gateway Review? So what's this all about? Gateway Reviews are what the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) uses to measure the progress of big government and public sector projects.
[07 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet What's the point of that? But what's the point in having a virtual version instead of an actual one? There can be benefits from a disaster recovery point of view, too. Virtualisation? So I get to put on a funky headset and walk around a simulated...
[04 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet Other sensor carriers will include two billion smart devices, including appliances, machines, vehicles and building equipment, one billion handheld smart devices such as mobiles and 300 million personal computers according to the Focal Point Group.
[09 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet And the point is what? And the point of that is. Six Sigma? 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]
Cheat Sheet Your point is? Well, there is no point having full shelves of carefully priced goods, stocked 'just in time', if you haven't spotted a need for higher levels of staffing, exacerbated by increased illness and absenteeism during winter, which will...
[03 Oct 2006]
Cheat Sheet Interesting point. Aren't most services location-based? How can you use a service without using it in a location? However, location-based services or LBS, to keep it short, are all about using the power of mobile networks to locate a user and...
[29 Sep 2006]
Cheat Sheet When you're on the move, the phone acts as a normal mobile, then once you're in range of the bridging technology - Bluetooth or wi-fi for example - which carries the call from the phone to the access point, the call switches from the cellular...
[23 Jun 2006]
Cheat Sheet Sepa is probably going to be built around EuroPay MasterCard Visa (EMV) card technology to ensure security and interoperability at the acceptance point. What's that? Back in 2000, European political big wigs got together in Lisbon.
[14 Feb 2006]
Cheat Sheet I see your point. 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 organisation.
[07 Feb 2006]
Cheat Sheet What's the point of having it? Contactless payments (CP) - what's that, then? 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...
[11 Oct 2005]
Cheat Sheet If something become a burning issue or a matter of massive public interest there is a good chance it will crop up as the hook on an email virus or spam message at some point soon. Social engineering? I'm thinking community projects - building...
[15 Nov 2004]
Cheat Sheet It's not uncommon for one vendor to go public with an alert about a 'new' virus which they have proudly named (often the person who writes the first signature gets the honour of doing so), only for another vendor, or vendors, to pipe up and point...
[08 Nov 2004]
Cheat Sheet That's actually a very good point and there is obviously some truth in that. The WEEE Directive? Surely you're taking the pi. Not at all - this has nothing to do with euphemism, it stands for the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive.
[29 Oct 2004]
Cheat Sheet With Wi-Fi, you're looking at being in the same building as the access point; with WiMax, it's more like being in the same town or the next town over. WiMax? Sounds like a buzzword. Tell me about the technology.
[12 Oct 2004]
Cheat Sheet It's a good point. Sunner believes we are nearing a "tipping point" whereby companies will sign up in increasing numbers - attributing this to a "me too effect" with businesses seeing others taking the plunge and deciding to do likewise.
[24 Sep 2004]
Cheat Sheet The financial sector is looking at biometrics as a way of verifying your identity and adding a further layer of security, such as at cash points or point of sale equipment where a biometric 'signature' would be needed to complete a transaction.
[20 Apr 2004]
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