standard in cheat sheets
Cheat Sheet: Google Android
Cheat Sheet Android will come with some basic apps as standard (such as a web browser) but the idea is devices will be personalised with apps specifically relevant to the user - so think of it as a modular system. [12 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Galileo
Cheat Sheet Well, the EU argues that satellites have become the standard way of navigating on the road as well as for ships and planes. What's a 16th century scientist got to do with technology? I see what you're thinking but this isn't the Galileo from Pisa... [28 Jan 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Encryption
Cheat Sheet As an example, the US ditched a 56-bit key-sized cipher called the Data Encryption Standard (DES) as its official encryption standard a few years ago in favour of the longer-keyed Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). [28 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Mobile TV
Cheat Sheet Seeing as there is no dominant standard, handset-makers are reluctant to jump in with both feet since they can't be sure which way the market will go. Virgin's service worked on a mobile telly standard called DAB-IP, which shares the network with... [22 Nov 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Chip and PIN
Cheat Sheet In 2006 the UK migrated retail and banking transactions to chip and PIN from the standard magnetic strip technology. Chip and PIN cards look the same as standard magnetic-strip cards, but inside the chip and PIN cards have a computer chip. [13 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Itil
Cheat Sheet Now the domain of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC), Itil is the most widely accepted standard in this area and is used by organisations from multinational corporations all the way to small businesses. [05 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Wi-fi
Cheat Sheet Work is ongoing on improving the capacities of wi-fi and the Wi-Fi Alliance is shortly to certify equipment to work with the upcoming 802.11n wi-fi standard, which promises speeds of 200Mbps to 300Mbps and an improved range of around 50 metres. [24 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: FTTx
Cheat Sheet Assorted mobile operators are studying their options and some believe the LTE mobile standard, set to be deployed in 2009, will enable 100Mbps speeds. Good for your digestion, so I hear. Apparently so. [11 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Six Sigma
Cheat Sheet Five or four sigma would be higher levels of defects but six is the standard. You'll find 'sigma' in all manner of standard deviation calculations - or, for the less mathematical, the capital sigma is that sign in Excel that adds everything up. [30 Nov 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Prince2
Cheat Sheet It is used by both the public and private sectors, is regarded as the UK's de facto project management standard, and is increasingly being adopted internationally. Prince2? Has the diminutive popstar changed his name again? [07 Nov 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Basel II
Cheat Sheet Basel II is an international business standard to ensure any large company that deals in money has enough cash at hand to cover all the risks it faces. Basel II? But I though there was only one season on Fawlty Towers? [22 Aug 2006]
Cheat Sheet: SOA
Cheat Sheet The SOA approach has actually been around for more than a decade but it's only started to come into more widespread use in businesses now because of the standard technologies, protocols and languages associated with web services, especially XML. [08 Aug 2006]
Cheat Sheet: IPTV
Cheat Sheet The UK government will have switched off the analogue signal by 2012 - which is how those bog-standard five channels are received now - and, in order to keep watching, we will all have to be receiving digital television by then. [27 Mar 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Federated identity
Cheat Sheet In the most basic 'in a nutshell' terms, it is an agreed standard for sharing identity with multiple parties with multiple privileges. But, as Andrew Lloyd, VP security at Computer Associates (CA), acknowledges: "Picking a standard is all well and... [20 Sep 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Widgets
Cheat Sheet The standard set-up that comes with Tiger offers a currency converter, world clock, share tracker, calendar, virtual Post-It Notes and a tiny iTunes, among others. Other widgets convert standard English text into Yoda-style speech or give a user a... [05 Jul 2005]
Keep updated for stories matching standard in cheat sheets via RSS
