WhatIs: Buzzword Alert!

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Margaret Rouse — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:14:02 EST

Ten tech definitions you need to know. Updated weekly.

Buzzword Alert from WhatIs.com: geospatial apps, cyberbullying, SOA and agile development

Alexander B. Howard — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:19:07 EDT

This week, the buzz was around geospatial apps, cyberbullying, SOA, ASP.NET AJAX, Documentum, Six Sigma, the SANS Software Security Institute, virtual tape libraries (VTL), VMware and agile software. development. Plus, this week's top enterprise IT news stories, our favorite technology podcasts, blogs and WhatIs.com's latest online discoveries.

Buzzword Alert from WhatIs.com: unified communications, data deduplication, PoE, 802.11n and the Long Tail

Alexander B. Howard — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:01:32 EST

This week, the buzz was around TJX, unified communications, data deduplication, Power over Ethernet (PoE), cross-site scripting, hosted VoIP, open SOA, 802.11n, clickstream analysis, the Long Tail and Juice.

Buzzword Alert: Ajax, ITIL, Hyperion and quantum computers

Alexander B. Howard — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:51:45 EST

This week, the buzz was around Ajax, ITIL, DAMA, master data management (MDM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), Convergence, Hyperion, bot worms, screencasts and quantum computers.

Buzzword Alert from WhatIs.com: DST patch, self-morphing Trojans, nanofabrication and Google Apps

Alexander B. Howard — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:59:11 EST

This week, the buzz was around DST patches, RFID tagging, nanofabrication, DST, an IVRS lifehack, Google Apps, biochips, injectable ID chips, self-morphing Trojans, the Vista UAC hole, compliance worries and much more.

Buzzword Alert: Enterprise 2.0, recentralization, mobile-to-mobile convergence and drive-by pharming

Alexander B. Howard — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:02:52 EST

This week, the buzz was around Enterprise 2.0, compliance, recentralization, commoditization, drive-by pharming, CoIP, QoS, unified communications and eDiscovery. Plus, a full stable of podcasts, including a definition of Joost.

Buzzword Alert: Teraflops, Vienna, DRM, social networking and RSA

Alexander B. Howard — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:35:17 EST

This week, the buzz was around teraflops, Vienna, DRM, metropolitan area networks (MAN), social networking, virtual private network, RSA, 802.11n, Ethernet, media-aware networks, open ID, cybercrime and more. Plus, Our Latest Discovery, Yahoo! Pipes.

Buzzword Alert: Crowdsourcing, zero-day, cryptography, interoperability and SMiShing

Alexander B. Howard — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:32:26 EST

This week, the buzz was around crowdsourcing, Amazon's Mechanical Turk, zero-day attacks, cryptography, open source ID, interoperability, geotargeting, porta-persons, Ubuntu, WYSIWYG editors, SMiShing and a change to daylight savings time.

Buzzword Alert: CES, OS X, WAN optimization and full disk encryption (FDE)

Alexander B. Howard — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:30:17 EST

This week, the buzz was around CES, OS X, terabyte, WAN optimization, full disk encryption (FDE), NAS, SCO, Xen, Solaris and xApps.

Buzzword Alert: iPhone, convergence, IPTV, common short code, Blu-ray and HDMI

Alexander B. Howard — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:05:19 EST

This week, the buzz was around the iPhone, convergence, common short codes (CSC), IPTV, HDMI, HDTV, Blu-ray, HD-DVD, social networking and cyberwar...(Continued)