Wi-Fi is the abbreviated term for “wireless fidelity.” It is actually a pun on the term “hi-fi” or high fidelity, which was once the global standard for wireless networking technology. It is sometimes spelled as WiFi or wifi. Wi-fi, however, uses the 802.11 standard, pioneered in 1997 by the...
EVDO is a standard for transmitting high speed wireless broadband. Also known as EV-DO, 1xEvDO, and 1xEV-DO, the EVDO acronym stands for “Evolution, Data Only” or “Evolution, Data Optimized.” But based on the telecommunication Industry Association, the official name of EVDO is CDMA2000, High Rate...
The IEEE 802.15.4 wireless protocol is the foundation for the ZigBee, a set of specs. IEEE stands for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, an organization that seeks to support the development of technology related to electronics and electronic devices. The “802 group” refers to...
Ethernet is a standard communications protocol that was designed by Bob Metcalfe in 1973. This protocol is included in many software and hardware devices and its purpose is to build a local area network or LAN. Metcalfe developed Ethernet with the help of Digital, Intel and Xerox, companies for...
It's great to go wireless and surf using wi-fi at home. That's why more and more consumers around the world are going for it. However, few of them are aware of the securtiy risks posed by an unsecured wi-fi network. Hijacking home wi-fi networks to commit cyber crimes is a rising phenomenon around...
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A personal digital assistant or PDA is a portable handheld device whose purpose is to allow the ability to perform organizational tasks from a mobile platform. Although the original PDAs were only limited to storing addresses, phone numbers, calendars and task lists, the current crop of PDAs now...
The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued a warning of malicious malware on mobile phones. This special task force is part of the FBI and issued a response to the alarming number of complaints on Friday,October 12, 2012. The warning stated "The IC3 has been made aware of various malware...
There are quite a few IT jobs where workers have to deal with dangerous and unsanitary conditions on a regular basis. Here are some of the worst jobs one can have in the IT industry.
Mbps, which stands for megabits per second, refers to the speed of data transfer as expressed in megabits. A bit represents a digit of data, which in digital terms is either a 1 or a 0. Eight bits that are strung together is equivalent to one byte. Any character – whether it be a number, punctuation...
