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Cheat Sheet: Galileo

Cheat Sheet Galileo hasn't exactly been the smoothest project in the world with budgetary and policy complications holding it up. In May 2007 the European Commission said the Galileo roadmap for public/private partnerships needed a rethink if the project was...

Tags: galileo, satellite, sat nav, europe

[28 Jan 2008]

Cheat Sheet: Gateway Reviews

Cheat Sheet The OGC Gateway process is meant to provide independent guidance to the senior responsible owner (SRO) - the person responsible for a project meeting its objectives and delivering intended benefits - on how to make the project successful.

Tags: national programme for it, national id card, gateway reviews, government

[07 Jun 2007]

Cheat Sheet: The $100 laptop

Cheat Sheet The OLPC project recently denied reports it received four million orders from Argentina, Brazil and Thailand. It's true some critics of the project, including the Indian education secretary believe the money invested in the $100 gadgets would be...

Tags: $100 laptop

[29 May 2007]

Cheat Sheet: BT's 21CN

Cheat Sheet The whole 21CN project will cost the telco in the region of £10bn to finish off and it hopes to save around £1bn a year as a result. The telco had been 'giving it large' about the ambitious project, saying almost all customers will be on the 21CN...

Tags: 21cn, cheat sheet, bt

[14 Nov 2006]

Cheat Sheet: Prince2

Cheat Sheet There's loads of information on how it works through the OGC's website while the OGC's partner, the Association for Project Management (APM) Group, also has a Prince2 website with details of training and certification.

Tags: prince 2, prince2, cheat sheet

[07 Nov 2006]

Cheat Sheet: WCIT

Cheat Sheet It has kitted out 34 children's hospices with PCs for the kids to use, via its lifelites project, and has used handheld devices to help with the teaching of autistic children. You'll never guess. It's.

Tags: charity

[04 Sep 2006]

Cheat Sheet: Government IT strategy

Cheat Sheet It's a massive project that will take an enormous amount of orchestration. You mean it's got one? It has now. Basically, it's a huge overhaul of services inside and outside of the public sector. The government is planning to change the face of...

Tags: e-government

[17 Nov 2005]

Cheat Sheet: Podcasting

Cheat Sheet According to research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, one third of US iPod users are already downloading and playing podcasts. Podcasting, then. All sounds a bit A Space Odyssey to me.

Tags: podcast, podcasting, cheat sheet, ipod

[17 Jun 2005]

Cheat Sheet: RSS feeds

Cheat Sheet: RSS feeds

Cheat Sheet Apple, for example, uses RSS feeds as a marketing tool, allowing iTunes users to follow when new songs by a certain artist or within a new genre are added to the online music store's catalogue while others are punting RSS as a project management...

Tags: cheat sheet, rss

[09 Mar 2005]

Cheat Sheet: Grid computing

Cheat Sheet: Grid computing

Cheat Sheet Another grid is being used by the Met Office to predict climate change and the EU has its own grid project, the Enabling Grids for E-Science in Europe project. Sounds like something out of the Matrix.

Tags: seti, grid

[05 Jan 2005]

Cheat Sheet: ID cards

Cheat Sheet Opponents, however, claim biometrics have never been deployed on this scale for such an important project. Didn't we used to have ID cards back in World War II? Well spotted. The UK last had a paper-based ID card introduced during the second world...

[22 Nov 2004]

Cheat Sheet: Grid computing

Cheat Sheet: Grid computing

Cheat Sheet The EU is also sponsoring a project for a grid for energy physics, earth observation and biology applications. A well-known basic example of grid computing is the ongoing SETI@Home project in which thousands of people share unused processor cycles...

[11 Apr 2002]

Cheat Sheet: Web services

Cheat Sheet: Web services

Cheat Sheet Sun is probably the loudest, with its Sun ONE project, but AOL, HP and IBM are also making noises. In business-speak, web services are all about linking up different websites so they work for customers in an intelligent way.

[31 Jan 2002]

Cheat Sheet: GPRS

Cheat Sheet: GPRS

Cheat Sheet Like any telco project, GPRS was very late to market, and the version we've tried didn't work all that well. What is GPRS? A. It stands for General Packet Radio Service. It's basically a souped-up version of the GSM standard that normal phones use...

[25 Apr 2001]

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