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

Biometrics - Eye to Eye

Eye of the Beholder

WED 26 DEC. 2007 |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 .

Endorsing predictions is as notoriously hazardous as making them. As we all know, looking at yesterday’s ideas of how today would turn out is, very often, a most amusing past time.

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

Boot loader

In computing, booting is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system.

THU 27 MARCH 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary

Broadband

Broadband in telecommunications is a term that refers to a signaling method that includes or handles a relatively wide range of frequencies, which may be divided into channels or frequency bins.

THU 27 DEC. 2007 |Featured in: Techtionary

Broadband over Power Line – The new plug n’ play?

Is the internet getting everywhere? These days you can access it through 3G, Wireless and perhaps soon your standard plug socket, and oh yes if you’re feeling really retro you can use a modem or broadband connection.

WED 22 MARCH 2006 |Featured in: Techtionary

Browser

Windows on The Internet

FRI 28 DEC. 2007 |Featured in: Techtionary

Business Continuity - More than an insurance policy

Tomorrow I’m heading off to the Business Continuity Expo to have a potter round the latest solutions for keeping your business running in the face of the unexpected. The exhibition, by its very nature will be preaching to currently or soon to be converted, but this is something that organisations should perhaps pay more attention to than is currently the case.

TUE 14 MARCH 2006 |Featured in: Techtionary

Business Ethics

Ethics are proper and good ways of working and running an establishment or an enterprise. Ethics determine the nature of a company and its intentions. An establishment is guided by a set of rules and ethics that determine the nature of the company and its rules in indulging in illegal and harmful practices.

THU 29 MARCH 2007 |Featured in: Techtionary

Business Process Management

The term Business Process Management (or BPM) refers to activities performed by businesses to improve their processes. While such improvements are hardly new, software tools called business process management systems have made such activities faster and cheaper.

THU 28 DEC. 2006 |Featured in: Techtionary

CPM or Cost Per Impression

Cost Per Impression is a phrase often used in online advertising and marketing related to web traffic. It is used for measuring the worth and cost of a specific e-marketing campaign.

THU 14 DEC. 2006 |Featured in: Techtionary

CPU - Computer's Brains Exposed

A central processing unit (CPU), or sometimes simply processor, is the component in a digital computer that interprets instructions and processes data contained in computer programs. CPUs provide the fundamental digital computer trait of programmability, and are one of the necessary components found in computers of any era, along with primary storage and input/output facilities.

FRI 03 NOV. 2006 |Featured in: Techtionary