A VPN is a Virtual Private Network. The concept is that you are using public or other shared lines (generally the Internet) to connect machines, but that all packets are encrypted (so your connections are “private”).
Restricting Access by Time of Day
Problem
You want a service to be available only at certain times of day.
Give Your Business Partners Web Access to your CRM System
Depending on the industry you’re in, you may rely heavily on business partners to help you sell, distribute, set up or service your product. Examples of business partners are dealers, distributors, resellers, manufacturing reps, and sub-contractors.
Electronic currency using SIM Access Profile
You might remember an ad campaign in which a woman approaches a soft drink vending machine alongside a young male executive. The executive rummages through his pants pocket to find, to his dismay, that he has no change to purchase a cool drink on a hot afternoon. The woman then pulls out her cell phone, presses a few buttons, and a soda can drops down from the vending machine. The ad was meant to show a future of a seamless, interactive world. The SIM Access Profile, released by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), makes such transactions a reality, allowing a consumer to use a cellular device to obtain, for example, a 50-cent soft drink without spending 25 cents on a cell phone airtime charge.
Data Access with ADO.NET
This will be a multi-part article dealing with ADO. We will begin with a bit of history of ADO, what it is, why it’s so important, and finally how to utilize it in a COBOL environment. This first article will provide a brief history of data access as well as provide the basic flow for using ADO to access data. The sample included with the article will provide basic access to the Northwinds database of SQL Server.
The Data Access Dilemma
Whether it is an Internet or Intranet, a web catalog or an e-commerce site with shopping cart, somewhere these applications are accessing a data source.
Remote access, Replication and Gremlins…
Some people might tell you that the statistics you see on your television screens of live sports telecasts are recorded by actual reporters at the sports events as the games are being played. Let me tell you something! Those people haven’t the faintest idea of what they are talking about! The truth is that there are gremlins, which live in your television and they are the ones that go about updating that scoreboard as you continue to watch the game (seriously!). It is
the truth and it is has worked wonders in eradicating the gremlin unemployment problem (when was the last time you saw an unemployed gremlin?).
A Beginner’s Guide to Data Access Using ADO and ASP
The primary aim of this tutorial is to demonstrate how to execute an SQL command within an Active Server Page and display the results in an HTML table.
Free Internet Access: The New Age of Ad-based Connectivity
Explore the emerging trend of free ad-based Internet access, its pros and cons, and its impact on the future of online connectivity.