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ActiveX: a framework for defining reusable software components in a programming language independent way.

Client: is an application or system that accesses a remote service on another computer system, known as a server, by way of a network The term was first applied to devices

Cookie: a web cookie, browser cookie, and HTTP cookie, is a piece of text stored by a user 's web browser

Digital Certificate: a public key certificate (also known as a digital certificate or identity certificate) is an electronic document which uses a digital signature to bind a public key

Domain: an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet.

File Transfer Protocol: is a standard network protocol used to copy a file from one host to another over a TCP/IP-based network, such as the Internet.

Geographic Imaging: division of the National Geographic Society (NGS) headquartered in Washington, D.C., USA, is a stock photography agency

Hit: a strike (attack), the act of hitting someone or something to cause physical harm.

Home Page: has various related meanings to do with web sites: It most often refers to the initial or main web page of a web site, sometimes called the front page

Hypertext markup Language: is the predominant markup language for web pages.

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Pyramid Schemes: The network marketing or multi-level marketing business has become associated with pyramid schemes as "Some schemes may purport to sell a product

RDF Summary: an open format by the RSS-DEV Working Group, again standing for RDF Site Summary. RSS 1.0 is an RDF format like RSS 0.90

Spam: Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately.

Tagging: Tagging systems open to the public are also open to tag spam, in which people apply an excessive number of tags or unrelated tags to an item

Teleconferencing: Terms such as audio conferencing, telephone conferencing and phone conferencing are also sometimes used to refer to teleconferencing.

Time Bomb: is an explosive device whose detonation is triggered by a timer.

Trojan Horse: A Trojan horse, or Trojan, is malware that appears to perform a desirable function for the user prior to run or install but instead facilitates unauthorized access of the user

Urban Legend: An urban legend, urban myth, urban tale, or contemporary legend, is a form of modern folklore consisting of stories usually believed by their tellers to be true.

Virus: A computer infection created by another user of a computer

Worm: A really bad type of virus that can "eat" Your saved files.

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Spam: Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately.

Text Messaging: Text messaging or texting refers to the exchange of brief written messages between fixed-line phone or mobile phone and fixed or portable devices over a network.

User Agent: In computing, a user agent is a client application implementing a network protocol used in communications within a client–server distributed computing system.

Windows Mail: Windows Mail is an e-mail and newsgroup client included in Windows Vista, that was superseded by Windows Live Mail.

Filtering: Collaborative filtering (CF) is the process of filtering for information or patterns using techniques involving collaboration among multiple agents, viewpoints, data sources

Fraud: a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual; the related adjective is fraudulent.

Hoax: a deliberately fabricated falsehood made to masquerade as truth.

Logic Bomb: is a piece of code intentionally inserted into a software system that will set off a malicious function when specified conditions are met.

Netiquette: is a set of social conventions that facilitate interaction over networks

Phishing: In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card

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Address Book: An address book or a name and address book (NAB) is a book or a database used for storing entries called contacts.

Archiving: Archives; List of archives; Manuscript processing; Preservation (library and archival science)

Attachment: Attachment theory is a psychological, evolutionary, and ethological theory concerning relationships between humans.

Distribution list: is a term sometimes used for a function of email clients where lists of email addresses are used to email everyone on the list at once.

Electronic Mail: Electronic mail, commonly called email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages across the Internet or other computer networks

e-mail address: An email address identifies an email mailbox to which email messages may be delivered. An example format of an email address is lewis@example.net

Instant Messaging: Instant messaging (IM) is a form of real-time direct text-based communication between two or more people using personal computers or other devices, along with shared software

Mailing List: A mailing list is a collection of names and addresses used by an individual or an organization to send material to multiple recipients.

Packets: a packet is a formatted unit of data carried by a packet mode computer network.

Signature: is a handwritten (and sometimes stylized) depiction of someone's name, nickname or even a simple "X" that a person writes on

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Modem: A modem (mo dulator-dem odulator) is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information

Node: is a connection point, either a redistribution point or a communication endpoint

Peer-Peer Network: Peers make a portion of their resources, such as processing power, disk storage or network bandwidth

Proxy Server: a proxy server is a server (a computer system or an application program) that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources

Public Switched Telephone Network: The public switched telephone network (PSTN) also referred to as the plain old telephone service (POTS) is the network of the world's public circuit-switched telephone networks.

Router: A router is an electronic device that intercepts signals on a computer network. The router determines where the signals have to go.

Server: a computer program running as a service, to serve the needs or requests of other programs

Server Operating System: The operating system was first released in 1999 as Mac OS X Server 1.0, with a desktop-oriented version (Mac OS X v10.0) following in March 2001.

T-1 Line: A T1 span can have up to -130 Volts of DC power superimposed on the associated four wire cable pairs to line or "Span" power line repeaters

Wide Area Network: A wide area network (WAN) is a computer network that covers a broad area (i.e., any network whose communications links cross metropolitan, regional, or national boundaries

WiMax: is a telecommunications protocol that provides fixed and fully mobile Internet access.

Wireless Internet Service Provider: Wireless Internet Service Providers (WISPs) are Internet service providers with networks built around wireless networking.

Wireless LAN: A wireless LAN is actually an extension of a LAN or even a WAN

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Biometric Security Measures: measures how well a biometric resists aging and other variance over time.

Cable Modem: A cable modem is a type of network bridge and modem that provides bi-directional data communication via radio frequency channels on a HFC and RFoG infrastructure.

Client: A client: is an application or system that accesses a remote service on another computer system, known as a server, by way of a network

Client/ Server Network: Often clients and servers communicate over a computer network on separate hardware, but both client and server may reside in the same system.

Communication Channels: A connection between initiating and terminating nodes of a circuit.

Digital Subscriber Line: Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) is a family of technologies that provides digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network.

Extranet: An extranet is a computer network that allows controlled access from the outside, for specific business or educational purposes.

Firewall: A firewall is a part of a computer system or network that is designed to block unauthorized access while permitting authorized communications.

Hacker: a hacker is a person who breaks into computers and computer networks, either for profit or motivated by the challenge.

Hub: Originally, the term hub referred to the central part of a wheel.

Internet: The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide.

Intranet: An intranet is a private computer network that uses Internet Protocol technologies to securely share any part of an organization's information or network operating system

Local Area Conector: If your computer has a network adapter that is connected to a local area network, you do not need to manually create a LAN connection

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Wordart: WordArt is a text-styling feature that is available in the Microsoft Office suite of products.

Work area: You define work areas in Customizing for the directly called detailed scheduling planning

Workbook: Workbooks in the American education system, are cheap, paperback textbooks, issued to students.

Works Cited: Automatic works cited and bibliography formatting for MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian citation styles. Now supports 7th edition of MLA.

Worksheet: A worksheet is a sheet of paper, or on a computer, on which problems are worked out or solved and answers recorded. Education

X-Y Scatter Chart: Applies to Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Microsoft Excel 2000 and 2002 XY (Scatter) charts and Line charts look very similar

Zoom: to move very fast, especially while emitting a loud low-pitched buzzing noise