NANO COMPUTING
- Nanotechnology
is a group of sciences dealing with nanometre-scale devices and particles ➢One nanometre is 0.000000001
of a metre.
- Nanometre-scale
usually indicates measurements up to a few hundred nanometers.
- Nanocomputing
deals with nanometre-scale computers.
BETA TEST
- A
test for a computer
product prior to commercial release.
- Beta
testing is the last stage of testing, and normally can involve sending the
product to beta test sites outside the company for real-world
exposure or offering the product for a free trial download over the
Internet.
- Beta testing is often preceded by a round
of testing called alpha
testing.
- Short
for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML,
it is a term that describes a new approach to using a number of existing
technologies together, including the following: HTML or XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets,
JavaScript,
the Document
Object Model, XML,
XSLT,
and the XMLHttpRequest object.
- When
these technologies are combined in the
- 3G
is an ITU
specification for the third generation (analog cellular was the first
generation, digital PCS
the second) of mobile communications technology.
- 3G
promises increased bandwidth,
up to 384 Kbps when a device is stationary or moving at pedestrian speed,
128 Kbps in a car, and 2 Mbps in fixed applications.
- 3G
will work over wireless air interfaces such as GSM, TDMA, and CDMA. The new EDGE air interface
has been developed specifically to meet the bandwidth needs of 3G.
- Acronym
for computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing, computer
systems used to design and manufacture products.
- The
term CAD/CAM implies that an engineer can use the system
both for designing a product and for controlling manufacturing processes.
- For
example, once a design has been produced with the CAD component, the
design itself can control the machines that construct the part.
- A
class of database
applications
that look for hidden patterns in a group of data that can be used
to predict future behavior. For example, data mining software can help
retail companies find customers with common interests.
- The
term is commonly misused to describe software that presents data in new
ways. True data mining software doesn't just change the presentation, but
actually discovers previously unknown relationships among the data.
- Data mining is
popular in the science and mathematical fields but also is utilized
increasingly by marketers trying to distill useful consumer data from Web
sites.
- Visit
eCRM
Guide to learn more about data mining and enterprise
applications.
- Short
for General Packet Radio Service, a standard
for wireless communications which runs at speeds up to 115 kilobits
per second, compared with current GSM (Global System for Mobile
Communications) systems' 9.6 kilobits.
- GPRS,
which supports a wide range of bandwidths,
is an efficient use of limited bandwidth and is particularly suited for
sending and receiving small bursts of data, such as e-mail
and Web browsing, as well as large volumes of data.
- Spyware
applications
are typically bundled
as a hidden component of freeware
or shareware
programs that can be downloaded
from the Internet. Spyware can also gather information about e-mail
addresses and even passwords and credit card numbers.
- Spyware
is similar to a Trojan
horse in that users unwittingly install the product when they
install something else.
- A common way to become a victim of
spyware is to download certain peer-to-peer
file swapping products that are available today.
- Licensing
agreements that accompany software downloads sometimes warn the user that
a spyware program will be installed along with the requested software, but
the licensing agreements may not always be read completely because the
notice of a spyware installation is often couched in obtuse, hard-to-read
legal disclaimers.
- Short
for enterprise resource planning, a business management system that
integrates all facets of the business, including planning, manufacturing,
sales, and marketing..
- As
the ERP methodology has become more popular, software
applications have emerged to help business managers implement
ERP in business activities such as inventory control, order tracking,
customer service, finance and human resources.
- The
Wi-Fi
Alliance, the organization that owns the Wi-Fi (registered
trademark) term specifically defines Wi-Fi as any "wireless local
area network (WLAN)
products that are based on the
- Wi-Fi
works with no physical wired connection between sender and receiver by
using radio frequency (RF)
technology.
- A
common misconception is that the term Wi-Fi is short for "wireless
fidelity," however this is not the case. Wi-Fi is simply a
trademarked term meaning IEEE 802.11x.
- Short
for interactive voice response, a telephony
technology in which someone uses a touch-tone telephone to interact with a
database
to acquire information from or enter data into the database.
- IVR
technology does not require human interaction over the telephone as the
user's interaction with the database is predetermined by what the IVR
system will allow the user access to.
- IVR
technology is also used to gather information, as in the case of telephone
surveys in which the user is prompted to answer questions by pushing the
numbers on a touch-tone telephone.
- A
single graphic
image containing more than one hot spot.
For example, imagine a graphic of a bowl of fruit. When you click on a banana,
the system displays the number of calories in a banana and when you click
on an apple, it displays the number of calories in an apple.
- Image
maps are used extensively on the World
Wide Web. Each hot spot in a Web image map takes you to a
different Web page.
- Image
map is sometimes spelled as one word: imagemap.
- Short
for Geography Markup Language, an XML-based language
for encoding geographic information in order to be stored and transported
over the Internet.
- Developed
by the OpenGIS Consortium, GML defines both the geometry and properties of
objects that comprise geographic information.
- GML
is a practical application for transferring cartographic information over
the Web. Instead of transmitting a GIF or JPG map, GML allows
the data to be controlled on the browser
end by the user who receives geometries and geographic features and
customizes how the data is to be displayed. Geographic data in GML can be
sent to any device with an XML interface.
- A
hypertext
programming
environment
for the Macintosh
introduced by Apple
in 1987. The HyperCard model consists of cards, and
collections of cards, called stacks
- Each
object
in a HyperCard system
-- stack,
card, text
field,
button, or background -- can have a script
associated with it. A script
is a set of instructions
that specify what actions should take place when a user selects an
object with the mouse
or when some other event occurs.
- Writing
HyperCard applications
is known as authoring.
- A
term used to describe the practice of recycling computers, computer
components and other electronics through reusing or donating them until
the end of their lifecycle.
- E-cycling
encourages people to reduce, reuse and recycle rather than dispose of
these items prematurely when upgrading to newer products.
- At
the end of the electronics' life, people are then encouraged to dispose of
the item at an electronics recycler to keep the electronics out of
landfills and reduce the amount of electronic waste. May also be written
as eCycle or ecycle.
- A
system designed to prevent unauthorized access to
or from a private network.
Firewalls can be implemented in both hardware
and software,
or a combination of both.
- Firewalls are frequently used to prevent
unauthorized Internet
users from accessing private networks connected to the Internet,
especially intranets.
- All
messages entering or leaving the intranet pass through the firewall, which
examines each message and blocks those that do not meet the specified security
criteria.
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