Oct 15 2008 12:10PM GMT
Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
wireless,
VoIP,
telecommunications,
displays,
gaming,
electronics,
Streaming media,
personal computing
The WhatIs.com Word of the Day is Wi-Fi multimedia (WMM)
Tech Trivia
Does a given resolution yield a sharper resolution as the display gets smaller?
Answer
Secret Word of the Day
The photosensitive qualities of this element, discovered in 1873, meant that visual information could be converted to electrical signals and transmitted. What’s the secret word?
Answer
IT Acronym Challenge
As an analog signal reaches the farther limits of its range, the SNR decreases and the quality of the transmission suffers as a result. What does SNR stand for?
Answer
Oct 14 2008 11:26AM GMT
Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
telecommunications,
Tech Trivia,
Streaming media,
personal computing,
television
The WhatIs.com Word of the Day is IPTV
Tech Trivia
What services do triple-play networks typically offer?
Answer
Secret Word of the Day
This is a type of television service that supports more complex actions, such as searching for programs. What’s the secret word?
Answer
IT Acronym Challenge
What is telco short for?
Answer
Sep 17 2008 12:32PM GMT
Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
Security,
hacking,
spyware,
malware,
network administration,
Tech Trivia,
Streaming media
The WhatIs.com Word of the Day is NBAR (Network Based Application Recognition).
Tech Trivia
What type of virus replicates by resending itself, often as an e-mail attachment?
Answer
Secret Word of the Day
This practice involves delaying the flow of packets that have been designated as less important or less desired than those of prioritized traffic streams. What’s the secret word?
Answer
IT Acronym Challenge
P2P stands for “peer-to-peer” — what does P4P stand for?
Answer
Sep 2 2008 11:10AM GMT
Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
Networking,
P2P,
gaming,
Tech Trivia,
Streaming media
The WhatIs.com Word of the Day is P4P.
Tech Trivia
A P2P network is typically set up on an ad-hoc basis. What does ad-hoc mean?
Answer (Scroll to the middle of the first paragraph.)
Secret Word of the Day
Star, ring, bus, tree and mesh are all examples of this. What’s the secret word?
Answer
IT Acronym Challenge
A MAN interconnects a city’s networks into a single larger network (which may then also offer efficient connection to a WAN). What does MAN stand for?
Answer
Aug 26 2008 7:50PM GMT
Posted by: Alex Howard
Storage,
HDTV,
displays,
video,
Tech Trivia,
Streaming media,
backup/recovery,
hologram
The WhatIs.com Word of the Day is Blu-ray.
Tech Trivia
What kind of media is used in a holographic disk drive?
Answer
Secret Word of the Day
Despite its name, these days this device (which enables a TV set to receive and decode digital television broadcasts) often ends up in a cabinet or shelf below a screen, especially if it’s a flatscreen HDTV mounted to a wall. What’s the secret word?
Answer
Acronym Challenge
Do you have a Blu-ray player and HDTV? The odds are good that you’ve connected them with an HDMI cable. What does HDMI stand for?
Answer
Aug 12 2008 4:03PM GMT
Posted by: Alex Howard
Mobile,
blogging,
electronics,
video,
Telepresence,
Tech Trivia,
compression,
Streaming media,
radio
The WhatIs.com Word of the Day is Qik.
Tech Trivia
What do you call a program for compressing and decompressing video?
Answer
Secret Word of the Day
This device-based representation of an individual, used in telepresence rooms, may be a robot or a device that combines a PC or terminal with peripherals such as cameras, microphones and stereo sound systems. What’s the secret word?
Answer
Acronym Challenge
“Breaker, breaker, did you see that bear?” CB radio operators have been broacasting live for decades. What does CB stand for?
Answer
Aug 4 2008 2:38PM GMT
Posted by: Ivy Wigmore
Storage,
Development,
open source,
programming,
electronics,
Tech Trivia,
compression,
Streaming media
The WhatIs.com Word of the Day for today is gzip.
Tech Trivia
Does audio content typically use a lossless or a lossy compression method?
Answer (Scroll to the middle of the second paragraph.)
Secret Word of the Day
From a Latin word meaning ‘to link together’ we get this term that means placing separate things next to each other so they can be treated as a single entity. What’s the secret word?
Answer
Acronym Challenge
The tar format derives from a time when files were commonly backed up on and occasionally retrieved from magnetic tape. What does tar stand for?
Answer
