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

In information technology, backup refers to making copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event

TUE 01 JULY 2008 |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

Backup domain controller

In Windows NT 4 server domains, the Backup Domain Controller (BDC) is a computer that has a copy of the user accounts database

WED 02 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary

Backup storage

In information technology, backup refers to making copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event

THU 03 JULY 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary

Backup storage

In information technology, backup refers to making copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event

FRI 25 JULY 2008 |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?

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

BitLocker

BitLocker Drive Encryption is a full disk encryption feature included with Microsoft's Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows Vista Enterprise and Windows Server 2008 operating systems designed to protect data by providing encryption for entire volumes

THU 05 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary

Bitrate

In telecommunications and computing, bitrate (sometimes written bit rate, data rate or as a variable Rbit) is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time. Bit rate is often used as synonym to the terms connection speed, transfer rate, channel capacity, maximum throughput and digital bandwidth capacity of a communication system.

MON 15 JAN. 2007 |Featured in: Techtionary

Blogging

A blog is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order.

WED 12 MARCH 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary

Blogstar superstar

As one of the many New Year’s predictions, I see that www.SearchCIO.com is looking for 2006 to be henceforth known as the year of the blogger

THU 05 JAN. 2006 |Featured in: Techtionary

Blu-ray Vs. HD DVD, a new battle of the formats?

Ah it’s like the good old days of VHS versus Beta or PC versus Mac, at last we have a new battle of the formats to look forward to, this time in the field of the next generation of optical discs. Both formats are based around a CD sized 12 cm disc, but Blu-ray has a larger storage capacity per layer at 25 gigabytes compared with the 15 gigabytes for HD DVD. This compares with 4.7 gigabytes per layer on today’s DVDs.

TUE 07 MARCH 2006 |Featured in: Techtionary

Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a new way of connecting wireless and mobile devices with other devices like the computer, telephones and other electronic devices using a short range wireless connection.

TUE 20 MARCH 2007 |Featured in: Techtionary

Bluetooth: More than just a dental problem for polar explorers

In my trawl through the lexicon of techspeak, acronyms and jargon, I sometimes come across a genuinely interesting titbit of information. Bluetooth was, I’d always imagined, named partly in honour of one the original partners in the Bluetooth Special Interests Group, that little know tech start-up company IBM - often dubbed Big Blue.

It turns out Bluetooth was, in fact, named after King Harold Bluetooth of Denmark, a 10th century monarch who was apparently a consummate diplomat, skilled at engaging in dialogue with warring parties to urge them to negotiate.

WED 08 FEB. 2006 |Featured in: Techtionary

Bometric authentication

Biometrics (ancient Greek: bios life, metron measure) refers to two very different fields of study and application

FRI 27 JUNE 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary