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Cheat Sheet: Government IT strategy
Cheat Sheet The government's IT strategy? 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 public services by "designing around the citizen... [17 Nov 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Federated identity
Cheat Sheet What on earth is federated identity? In the most basic 'in a nutshell' terms, it is an agreed standard for sharing identity with multiple parties with multiple privileges. Oh right, that's cleared things up. [20 Sep 2005]
Cheat Sheet: The Microsoft antitrust case
Cheat Sheet What's the US Department of Justice's problem? The main problem is that it reckons Microsoft was a bully, carried out unsavoury business practices and - if we can put it this way - became accustomed to stomping on anyone who got in its way. [24 Jan 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Location-based services
Cheat Sheet What on earth is this all about? Don't you mean "Where on earth? sorry). Location-based services - or LBS, to the initiated - help you find out where you are or where something else is when you're out and about in town, or even lost out there in... [02 Jan 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Microsoft Passport
Cheat Sheet What is it then? Passport is the centrepiece of Microsoft's .NET initiative, which is all about web services. You'll probably have experienced it in its current guise as the authentication engine for Hotmail. [09 Nov 2001]
Cheat Sheet: Security appliances
Cheat Sheet A security appliance? What does this do? Well as you might imagine, it's an appliance - often a black or silver (techies may call it 'gun metal') box - which handles a lot of your security needs such as antivirus, anti-spam and content filtering. [20 Feb 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Femtocell
Cheat Sheet Femtocell. I'll avoid the Austin Powers gags. Thanks. Tell me, what does it mean? A femtocell is a small cellular base station - some might say picocell - that will connect to broadband connections in homes or offices. [25 Sep 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Windows XP
Cheat Sheet Q. What is Windows XP? A. Out on Thursday 25 October, it is the most ambitious version of the popular Windows desktop and server software yet to come from Bill Gates' brainstorming bunker. So, this isn't just another product update from Microsoft? [22 Oct 2001]
Cheat Sheet: CRM
Cheat Sheet CRM - yet another of those dreaded IT industry three letter acronyms. You could say that but CRM - despite being a tech industry buzzword bandied about over the past few years - actually stands for something close to the heart of most businesses... [08 Jan 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Creative Commons
Cheat Sheet Get on with it - what's Creative Commons? It's a non-profit organisation focused on developing innovative and balanced approaches to copyright and intellectual property law. The brainchild of Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig, it was founded... [05 May 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Sarbanes-Oxley
Cheat Sheet The Sarbanes-Oxley Act - what on earth is that? It's the name of a piece of US compliance legislation, with global implications, which was signed off in 2002 and is soon to 'go live' with the intention of preventing financial malpractice and... [10 Jun 2004]
Cheat Sheet: RSS feeds
Cheat Sheet RSS. Another one of those acronyms, then. You best start off by telling me what it stands for. Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary, depending on who you listen to. I'm none the wiser. Go on, give me a bit more detail. [09 Mar 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Data Protection Act 1998
Cheat Sheet 1998? That's a bit out of date isn't it? Not really. The Data Protection Act 1998 only came into force in 2000 and businesses didn't have to be fully compliant until October 2001. It takes a while for some legislation to get warmed up, you know. [28 Aug 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Second Chance Tuesday
Cheat Sheet 'Second Chance Tuesday', what's that all about then? 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: Blogging
Cheat Sheet I'm hearing a lot about blogging, why all the fuss? Good question. It may seem like we're getting a little late to the ball game with this one, but blogging - a contraction of web logging - has really hit the mainstream after several years... [09 Feb 2005]
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