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Cheat Sheet: Virtualisation
Cheat Sheet What's the point of that? But what's the point in having a virtual version instead of an actual one? There can be benefits from a disaster recovery point of view, too. Virtualisation? So I get to put on a funky headset and walk around a simulated... [04 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet: QR codes
Cheat Sheet However, at least one UK newspaper has just started printing QR codes on its pages to point its readers to the latest news. To store and point to a whole URL say - or to contain full contact details on a business card. [28 May 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Six Sigma
Cheat Sheet And the point is what? And the point of that is. Six Sigma? All Greek to me. Very funny. Why the six, why the sigma? It's a statistical term. You'll find 'sigma' in all manner of standard deviation calculations - or, for the less mathematical, the... [30 Nov 2006]
Cheat Sheet: FMC
Cheat Sheet When you're on the move, the phone acts as a normal mobile, then once you're in range of the bridging technology - Bluetooth or wi-fi for example - which carries the call from the phone to the access point, the call switches from the cellular... [23 Jun 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Business intelligence
Cheat Sheet Your point is? Well, there is no point having full shelves of carefully priced goods, stocked 'just in time', if you haven't spotted a need for higher levels of staffing, exacerbated by increased illness and absenteeism during winter, which will... [03 Oct 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Femtocell
Cheat Sheet What's now femtocell was originally called Access Point Base Station, and if you think about an access point for something like wi-fi, expect a similar device. Femtocell. I'll avoid the Austin Powers gags. [25 Sep 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Microsoft Passport
Cheat Sheet The second is against the idea of a single sign-on point for ecommerce in principal, whoever's doing it. Critics say this is unnecessarily risky, giving a huge target for hackers who can gain access to masses of information from just one point. [09 Nov 2001]
Cheat Sheet: Managed security services
Cheat Sheet It's a good point. Sunner believes we are nearing a "tipping point" whereby companies will sign up in increasing numbers - attributing this to a "me too effect" with businesses seeing others taking the plunge and deciding to do likewise. [24 Sep 2004]
Cheat Sheet: 10 Gigabit Ethernet
Cheat Sheet Dissenting voices point to the problem of packet loss and the inability to deliver decent quality of service (QoS). By providing a much-needed injection of speed, this so-called 'inter-POP' application offers fast throughput between data centres... [31 Oct 2001]
Cheat Sheet: Mobile location-based services
Cheat Sheet Interesting point. Aren't most services location-based? How can you use a service without using it in a location? However, location-based services or LBS, to keep it short, are all about using the power of mobile networks to locate a user and... [29 Sep 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Contactless payments
Cheat Sheet What's the point of having it? Contactless payments (CP) - what's that, then? Rather than hand over cash, sign your name or even do the chip and PIN thing when you buy something, the wondrous gift of technology has made it possible to make a... [11 Oct 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Gateway Reviews
Cheat Sheet What's the point of them? Gateway Review? So what's this all about? Gateway Reviews are what the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) uses to measure the progress of big government and public sector projects. [07 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet: WiMax
Cheat Sheet With Wi-Fi, you're looking at being in the same building as the access point; with WiMax, it's more like being in the same town or the next town over. WiMax? Sounds like a buzzword. Tell me about the technology. [12 Oct 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Biometrics
Cheat Sheet The financial sector is looking at biometrics as a way of verifying your identity and adding a further layer of security, such as at cash points or point of sale equipment where a biometric 'signature' would be needed to complete a transaction. [20 Apr 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Virus names and alerts
Cheat Sheet It's not uncommon for one vendor to go public with an alert about a 'new' virus which they have proudly named (often the person who writes the first signature gets the honour of doing so), only for another vendor, or vendors, to pipe up and point... [08 Nov 2004]
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