Gi-Fi or gigabit wireless refers to a wireless communication at a data rate of more than one billion bits (gigabit) per second. By 2004 some trade press used the term “Gi-Fi” to refer to faster versions of the IEEE 802.11 standards marketed under the trademark Wi-Fi.
Li-Fi (Light Fidelity) is a bidirectional, high speed and fully networked wireless communication technology similar to Wi-Fi.
Know Bluetooth Technology: Bluetooth is a wireless networking standard created for personal area networks (PANs). Is was founded in 1994,as wireless data transmission technology using radio transmissions.Bluetooth is a cable replacement technology. Bluetooth is an IEEE standard under the denomination of 802.15 WPANs. Bluetooth provides cheap connection between two or more devices.Bluetooth has a short range of approximately 10 meters up to 25 meters.Bluetooth offers low speeds of approximately 1Mbps. What is Blue Jacking: Blue jacking exploits a Bluetooth device’s…
What is Cyber Bullying? When the internet, cell phones or other digital devices are used to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person.Examples of cyber bullying include mean text messages or emails, rumours sent by email or posted on social networking sites, and embarrassing pictures, videos, websites, or fake profiles. There are two kinds of Cyber Bullying: Direct Attacks- messages sent directly to the victim. Cyber Bullying by Proxy– Using someone else to cyber bully…
A CAPTCHA (an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”) is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human. The term was coined in 2003 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas J. Hopper, and John Langford.
4G, short for fourth generation, is the fourth generation of mobile telecommunications technology, succeeding 3G. A 4G system must provide capabilities defined by ITU in IMT Advanced.
“Blue brain” `The name of the world’s first virtual brain. That means a machine that can function as human brain.
Cloud Computing is a general term used to describe a new class of network based computing that takes place over the Internet.
Open source software(OSS) is computer software that is available in source code form.
Open source software generally allows anyone to create modifications of the software, port it to new operating systems and processor architectures, share it with others or, in some cases, market it.
A report by the Standish Group states that adoption of open-source software models has resulted in savings of about $60 billion per year to consumers
What is WiMAX? WIMAX stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access I t is an IP based Wireless Broadband Access Technology utilizing IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard as the air interface. WiMAX, which will have a range of up to 31 miles, is primarily aimed at making broadband network access widely . User can expect to have broadband access speeds ranging from 256 Kbps to 2 Mbps. WiMAX is most suitable for home users, individual, small office and home office. Customer who…