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- Virtual Private Networks: VPN
- The VPN is becoming a viable alternative to a dedicated private
network link, but issues of security and performance abound. Christopher
McDonald of the AMS Center for Advanced Technologies (AMSCAT) explains.
- Emerging Language: XML
- DataChannel's backgrounder on the standard voted most likely to succeed
HTML as the "language of the Web": eXtensible Markup Language.
- Integrated Messaging: G5
- Integrating fax, e-mail and Internet voice, the G5 Messaging Protocol
moves us closer to a Universal Inbox.
- Emerging Security: PPTP
v. IPsec
- In this overview of so-called tunneling protocols, author Julie
Bort profiles the candidate standards for building confidence on both
sides of the firewall.
- Emerging Standards 1: IPv6
- The next-generation Internet Protocol is emerging from the standards process
to carry web applications into the 21st century.
- Emerging Standards 2: LDAP
- An overview of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, LDAP, which Netscape
Communications Corp., University of Michigan and more than forty companies
endorsed in April 1996 as a proposed open standard for much-needed
directory services on the Internet.
- Emerging Standards 3: IMAP
- A profile of the Internet Message Access Protocol most likely to succeed
POP3, today's outmoded one-computer-per-user protocol.
- Emerging Standards 4: ADSL
- The telephone industry's Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line technology promises
broadband Internet access over today's cable plant -- one-way.
- Emerging Standards 5: Multimedia
Modems
- A look at V.34 modems and the H.324 multimedia protocol suite,
enablers of remote, high-performance networking.
- Emerging Standards 6: 100
MB/s LANs
- Ethernet proves to be the Energizer BunnyTM
of network technologies.
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elsewhere
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internet.com |
Understanding
Streaming Media
Streaming
Media World
offers a series of online articles and tutorials devoted to this multimedia
web technology.
Introduction
to Java
If you want to learn Java from the ground up, Selena Sol's tutorial
series in Java Boutique is the place to start! |
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Thin Windows: Microsoft Windows
CE
The
small-footprint version of Windows takes aim at embedded systems
-- and at Java.
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IDM's
JavaScript FAQ
From
CGI to Dynamic HTML to ASP, scripting has become a fundamental
web technology. IDM's JavaScript FAQ answers common questions
about JavaScript - the de facto browser-based scripting language.
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