.NET

.NET is a new strategy and framework for an upcoming programming model that aims at a convergence of applications with the web. Applications written once can be run on any platform and will interface with the web and bring all computing activities close to the web.

THU 26 APRIL 2007 |Featured in: Techtionary

3G

3G or Third Generation Wireless systems refers to the developments of the wireless technology, especially in the area of mobile communications. The first generation of mobile technology used a analog voice signaling and the second generation, presently in use, like the CDMA, TDMA, GSM.

MON 19 MARCH 2007 |Featured in: Techtionary

419er - Beware of that number

Advance fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance relatively small sums of money in the hope of realizing a much larger gain. The most visible form is the Nigerian Letter or 419 fraud, named after the section of the Nigerian criminal code that it violates.

MON 06 NOV. 2006 |Featured in: Techtionary

A virtual private server

It is a method of partitioning a physical server computer into multiple servers such that each has the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated machine.

WED 30 APRIL 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary

ASP

Application Service Provider is a new concept that is gaining ground fast due to the popularity of the Internet. An ASP is a service provider who offers access to applications and other related services over the internet which otherwise the enterprise has to acquire and place on its own resources.

MON 05 MARCH 2007 |Featured in: Techtionary

ATM - Not where you collect your cash

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a cell relay, network and data link layer protocol which encodes data traffic into small (53 bytes; 48 bytes of data and 5 bytes of header information) fixed-sized cells.

WED 20 DEC. 2006 |Featured in: Techtionary

Adobe - The Killer App for Apple

Adobe Systems is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, United States that was founded in December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke. They founded Adobe after leaving Xerox PARC in order to further develop and commercialize the PostScript page description language.

TUE 21 NOV. 2006 |Featured in: Techtionary

Ajax – Not a way of keeping your web pages clean

What does Asynchronous Javascript And XML mean to you? Well to those at the sharp end of the digital revolution this would be made into the acronym ‘Ajax,’ and be used to describe one of the programming formats for developing interactive web pages. For a concise definition check out here.

MON 27 MARCH 2006 |Featured in: Techtionary

Anti-virus Warning!

I read on one of our competitor's websites recently about Microsoft’s forthcomingentry into the consumer anti-virus market.

THU 09 FEB. 2006 |Featured in: Techtionary

Apache HTTP Server

The Apache HTTP Server is a web server for Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows, Novell NetWare and other operating systems. Apache is notable for playing a key role in the initial growth of the World Wide Web.

TUE 16 JAN. 2007 |Featured in: Techtionary

Application programming interface

The interface between something and everything else

FRI 07 DEC. 2007 |Featured in: Techtionary

Asus

ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated (Asus)

MON 10 MARCH 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary

BITTORRENT – Pirate Bay is live again!

Bittorrent enables the sharing of files over the internet using P2P / Peer to Peer protocol. It’s a very effective way of sharing files over the web without suffering from excessive bandwidth costs.

WED 07 JUNE 2006 |Featured in: Techtionary

BO2K - You don't want to have this on your server

Back Orifice 2000 (often shortened to BO2k) is a computer program designed for remote system administration. It enables a user to control a computer running the Microsoft Windows operating system from a remote location. The name is a pun on Microsoft BackOffice Server software.

FRI 08 DEC. 2006 |Featured in: Techtionary

BREWing for Beer

BREW or Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless is an application development platform created by Qualcomm for mobile phones. It is air-interface independent, i.e. it can support GSM/GPRS, UMTS, and CDMA.

FRI 12 JAN. 2007 |Featured in: Techtionary

Backup - Data's lifeline

Without it, your business might be lost

MON 24 DEC. 2007 |Featured in: Techtionary

Backup Devices

Backup is an operation where the data is copied to a device for preserving the data or to restore the data in case of a failure of the hard disk. Often, big corporations and mainframes have a regular backup activity where data is regularly backed up. The data is copied onto backup devices like the Tape Drive or a Magneto Optical drive that have the capacity to hold large amounts of data.

FRI 16 FEB. 2007 |Featured in: Techtionary

Beta: More than just a name for obsolete videos.

Here in Net Communities towers palatial penthouse office suite, the tension has been building all day. Will it be the Blonde or the Badger? Those of you not following BBC’s ‘The Apprentice,’ might not know what I’m talking about, but in certain circles the programme has definitely captured the imagination. To find out more check out the BBC’s site here .

What has this got to do with IT? In traditional employment terms an apprentice is generally taken to mean someone who is learning a particular trade or craft, in today’s offices such individuals are generally called trainees, a phrase that somehow doesn’t have the same sort of grit and sawdust heavy industrial feel that apprentice does. You never really hear about apprentice project managers or systems analysts, but I feel in some ways you could think of a Beta version of a programme or application as the product in its apprentice stage.

WED 10 MAY 2006 |Featured in: Techtionary

Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless

BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) is an application development platform created by Qualcomm for mobile phones.

WED 26 MARCH 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary

Biometrics

Biometrics is the science used to analyze physical human body characteristics like fingerprints, retina, voice etc. to authenticate a person.

TUE 08 MAY 2007 |Featured in: Techtionary