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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cookie | A small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while a user is browsing a website. |
| mobile | A "mobile" or "mobile device" is generally a smart phone, cell phone, netbook, or laptop. It is portable and can be used anywhere. |
| cache | reserved areas of memory in every computer that are used to speed up instruction execution, data retrieval and data updating. |
| Botnet | Also called a "zombie army," a botnet is a large number of compromised computers that are used to generate spam, relay viruses or flood a network or Web server with excessive requests to cause it to fail. |
| Nettiquette | proper manners when conferencing between two or more users on an online service or the Internet. |
| Cloud | hardware and software services from a service provider on the internet. |
| Artificial Intelligence | Devices and applications that exhibit human intelligence and behavior including robots, expert systems, voice recognition, natural foreign language processing. |
| Bandwidth | The transmission capacity of an electronic pathway such as a communications line, computer bus, or computer channel. |
| Domain Name | The address of the Internet site. |
| Intranet | A company's local area network (LAN) that serves employees. |
| Web Server | A computer that runs a website. Using a HTTP protocol The web server delivers Web pages to browsers as well as other data files to Web-based applications. |
| URL | Uniform resource locator. The address that defines the route to a file on an internet server. They are typed into a web browser to access Web pages and files, and URL's are embedded within the pages themselves as hypertext links. |
| HTML | Hyper Text Markup Language. The standard document format for web pages. Every web page for HTML tags embedded in the text that define the page layout, fonts and hypertext links. |
| IP address | It stands for Internet protocol address. The address of a connected device on an IP network. |
| bitmap | A binary representation in which a bit or set of bits corresponds to some part of an object such as an image or font. |
| Browser | A program that lets you look through a collection of data. |
| ISP | Internet service provider. An organization that provides access to the internet. |
| Spoofing | When someone receives email that appears to have originated from one source that it actually was sent from another source. |
| Phishing | A web page designed to look and sound like an official site from a trusted source, particularly one that handles credit card info, or online payments. |
| DNS server | A dedicated server or a service within a server that provides DNS name resolution in an IP network. It turns names for Web sites and network resources into numeric IP addresses. |
| A very popular message broadcasting system that lets anyone send alphanumeric text messages up to 140 characters in length to a list of followers. | |
| Bunny Suit | The protective clothing worn by an individual in a clean room that keeps human bacteria from infecting the chip-making process. |
| Database | A set of related files that is created and managed by a database management system (DBMS). As far as the hardware is concerned, all data are simply "bits and bytes.” |
| portal | Web "supersite" that provides a variety of services including Web search, news, blogs, discussion groups, shopping and links to other sites. |
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