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Cheat Sheet But how's public-key encryption going to work on a larger scale? 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...
[28 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet There are a couple of small scale rollouts in the UK and some others being planned, in Walsall for instance, but at the moment fibre connections remain a very small part of Europe's broadband landscape.
[11 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet Again though the SaaS vendors will tell their users the security they have in place is better than anything the user has - given the economies of scale - protecting thousands of customers, and a reputation, rather than just one business.
[31 Oct 2006]
Cheat Sheet I thought using biometrics on that scale was just something out of Minority Report? Opponents, however, claim biometrics have never been deployed on this scale for such an important project. Indeed, payment industry body APACS recently said the...
[22 Nov 2004]
Cheat Sheet Cost also has a bit of a role to play - it's too expensive for large scale deployments at the moment. Sounds like a buzzword. Tell me about the technology. It's not just a technology. Right. So what is it then?
[12 Oct 2004]
Cheat Sheet Or, as one expert put it: "Grid computing can be thought of as distributed and large-scale cluster computing and as a form of network-distributed parallel computing. Grid computing? What's that then? Sounds a bit like the leccy to me.
[11 Apr 2002]
Cheat Sheet With no common rules, the wide scale adoption of a system or systems just hasn't happened. Rings a bell but do remind me Buying pricey items on the web is easy. For flights, cameras and cars you can shove it all on your credit card.
[21 Mar 2002]
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