Stories by Russell Kay

Article | 8/06/2010 A Flash Memory primer: the basics explained
Flash memory is inside your smartphone, GPS, MP3 player, digital camera, PC and the USB drive on your key chain. Solid-state drives (SSD) using flash ...
Article | 6/10/2009 QuickStudy: Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)
XBRL is a version of XML defined to meet the requirements of business and financial information. With XBRL, unique identifying tags are applied to fin...
Article | 3/02/2009 High-Density Storage
The first storage media -- paper tape and punched cards -- were inefficient, slow and bulky. These gave way to magnetic storage: core memory, drums an...
Article | 3/12/2008 QuickStudy: Identity-based encryption
Public-key cryptography offers very strong protection for electronic communications. Much of its strength comes from the use of paired keys, which are...
Article | 3/12/2008 QuickStudy: Global positioning systems
Like many people, I've come to take for granted the availability of navigation systems in cars and handheld devices based on the Global Positioning Sy...
Article | 21/10/2008 QuickStudy: High-definition TV
In any newspaper ad for television sets, you'll see the term high-definition used with abandon, accompanied by numbers, letters and language designed ...
Article | 2/10/2007 A quick study: Online Social Networks
Online social networks are Web sites that enable people to create a network of connections to other individuals. Through the Internet communities that...
Article | 17/08/2004 COM
Component Object Model is a Microsoft-developed, language-independent architecture created in the 1990s that lets developers build applications from r...

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