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Tech Trivia Challenge - digital television

Our WhatIs.com Tech Term is digital television

Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals using digital rather than conventional analog methods. Advantages of DTV include better resolution and compatibility with computers and the Internet. Analog television broadcasts are scheduled to stop in 2009.

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Secret Word of the Day
This term describes the relationship between the height and the width of a display. What’s the secret word?
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Tech Trivia
Where would you find an electron gun in your old TV set or monitor?
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Word Scramble
Unscramble the letters to see something an older TV set needs to display digital broadcasts:
est-pot oxb
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Acronym Challenge
An EPG for digital TV allows the user to interact with a guide to scheduled programming. What does EPG stand for?
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Cisco banks on DTV for the enterprise
In 2008, Cisco announced products and applications to drive the market for enterprise video and digital television for business.

White paper: Successfully delivering Internet television
Internet television offers new opportunities for generating greater revenues and reaching wider audiences.

Tech Trivia Challenge - Ogg Vorbis

Our WhatIs.com Tech Term is Ogg Vorbis

Vorbis is an open source patent-free audio compression format, developed as a replacement for proprietary digital audio encoding formats, such as MP3, VQF, and AAC. Vorbis files compress to a smaller size than MP3 files, which reduces bandwidth and storage requirements. According to many reports, a Vorbis file provides better sound quality than an MP3 file of the same size.

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Secret Word of the Day
This word describes sound in the range that’s audible to humans. What’s the secret word?
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Tech Trivia
Does sound move more quickly through air or a solid?
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Word Scramble
Unscramble the letters to see the name of the pattern created by audible energy:
undos avwe
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Acronym Challenge
Vorbis is an audio codec. What does “codec” stand for?
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USB audio glitches
Serdar Yegualp explains how to deal with USB audio problems, such as stuttering and glitching.

Tech Trivia Challenge - flash mobs

Our WhatIs.com Tech Term is flash mob

A flash mob is a group of people who organize themselves, using electronic media such as cell phones or the Internet, to gather together in a public place, behave in a predetermined manner for a predetermined period of time, and then quickly disperse. The first flash mobs were considered either pranks or performance art. More recently, flash mobs have gathered for other purposes, including protests and charity. Last week, T-Mobile used the flash mob concept for an ad.

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Secret Word of the Day
In this model of human interaction, people expand their connections by accessing the connections of acquaintances. What’s the secret word?
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Tech Trivia
Who first proposed the “six degrees of separation” theory?
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Acronym Challenge
GPS messaging is a little like a digital sticky note that mobile users access when they enter a specific location. What does GPS stand for?
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Word Scramble
Unscramble the letters for the name of a device that became prominent because of its wireless email capabilities:
rabbyclerk
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Twitter tries to shore up security in wake of hack attack
As many as 33 high profile Twitter accounts were breached just days after a widespread phishing scam targeted users of the social network.

Sales 2.0
This white paper explores how sales and marketing professionals are using online collaboration and social networking to spark sales.

Tech Trivia Challenge - IPTV

Our WhatIs.com Tech Term is IPTV.

IPTV (Internet Protocol television) is the delivery of programming by video stream encoded as a series of IP packets. IPTV is distributed by a service provider, can be free or fee-based and can deliver either live TV or stored video. It can be bundled with other Internet Protocol services, including VoIP and high-speed Internet access.

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Secret Word of the Day
This term describes communication between a single sender and multiple receivers on a network. What’s the secret word?
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Acronym Challenge
IPTV might be delivered via a CDN. What does CDN stand for?
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Tech Trivia
What does a triple-play network deliver?
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This free chapter download offers a crash course in IPTV.

This Eurocomms.com article predicts battles ahead between IPTV and iTV.

Tech Trivia Challenge - microblogging

Our WhatIs.com Tech Term is microblogging

Microblogging is a web service that allows the subscriber to broadcast short messages to other subscribers of the service.  The broadcasts can be text, photos or video.  Twitter, Jaiku and the status feature on Facebook are three of the most popular microblogging services.

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Secret Word of the Day

This is a series of entries posted to a single page in reverse-chronological order. What’s the secret word?
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Acronym Challenge

Twitter was written in a programming language called RoR. What does RoR stand for?
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Tech Trivia

In the 1980’s, before the arrival of the World Wide Web, what did you call an application for sharing or exchanging messages or other files on a network?
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Microblogging for business

What are the risks of social networking sites?

Creating a sensible social network policy

When Micro-Blogging Grows Up

List of Enterprise Microblogging Tools: Twitter for the Intranet