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Cheat Sheet: The Kindle, Amazon's e-book reader
Cheat Sheet According to Amazon, with the wireless on, the Kindle can go for four days on a single charge. That's exactly what it is.e-book readers are typically small, thin devices - about the size of a paperback novel - that can... [07 Oct 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Unified communications
Cheat Sheet UC systems should be able to integrate communications across multiple locations regardless of the kit or networks involved, or the applications or wireless providers used. You're not alone. Apart from the fact it sounds... [16 Mar 2009]
Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer
Cheat Sheet C is for Cable & Wireless Is this another one of those shiny Apple gadgets from Cupertino? Not quite.iPlayer is actually the BBC's online on-demand TV service. Tell me more… Well users can download or stream BBC content... [05 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Social networking
Cheat Sheet Another network, called the Wireless Industry Partnership, launched last year with a similar idea but specifically focused on wireless technologies. Social networking - that's where you stand around... [15 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet: The $100 laptop
Cheat Sheet There's no hard disk but it will have four USB ports and wireless broadband that can mesh network. It's green and has a handle - is it a watering can? No, it's the $100 laptop. Basically some clever types are trying to... [29 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Wi-fi
Cheat Sheet Seems like everyone I know has a wireless network at home. You might think they're being altruistic but it's their way of pushing the next generation of broadband services - wireless gaming and FMC, for... [24 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: FTTx
Cheat Sheet Another option for broadband speeds in three figures is wireless. Good for your digestion, so I hear. Apparently so. But we're not talking about that sort of fibre. We're talking about fibre in the broadband sense - as... [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... [09 May 2007]
Cheat Sheet: BT's 21CN
Cheat Sheet Cable & Wireless' CEO has criticised BT over the project, saying it's working against its customers, while others have slammed its plans for the next generation of high-speed services: BT is leaning towards a plan of... [14 Nov 2006]
Cheat Sheet: FMC
Cheat Sheet Well, broadband chameleon Cable & Wireless has already set out its stall on this one and bought a licence to offer its own FMC service. What is FMC then? Fixed-mobile convergence. Er, great. What's that when it's at home? [23 Jun 2006]
Cheat Sheet: NFC and contactless payments
Cheat Sheet NFC is a short range wireless technology, very similar to RFID and reminiscent of Bluetooth, commonly used for contactless payments. NFC eh? Does this have anything to do with the colonel and his seven secret herbs and... [20 Apr 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Wireless mesh networking
Cheat Sheet A mesh network is essentially a series of nodes - wireless access points typically mesh routers but also laptops, PDAs and the like - which route data to each other. As with traditional wi-fi before it,... [24 Feb 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Smart phone operating systems
Cheat Sheet It isn't just taking Windows Pocket PC mobile and wireless - or its CE core - but pushing its Windows Mobile OS, with some success. My mobile has an operating system? Yes. I didn't realise that. How obvious your OS is... [02 Nov 2004]
Cheat Sheet: WiMax
Cheat Sheet The WiMax Forum, where the story begins, is a coalition of tech firms that got together in 2001 to promote the 802.16 wireless standard for broadband and push interoperability of phones and other technology based on the... [12 Oct 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Windows XP Service Pack 2
Cheat Sheet The folk over at Redmond have thrown in a few other non-security extras, including some Bluetooth improvements, wireless LAN interface changes, updates for Media Center, Media Player and XP for tablet PCs. [06 Jul 2004]
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