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Glossary:
(Definitions, explanations and illustrations aimed at simplifying words and terms used throughout the website)

Audio conferencing

Advanced Micro Devices

Analogue

Animation

Asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL)

Backend

Bandwidth

Bandwidth on demand

Bit

Branding

Byte

CDMA

CDPD

Chief Web Officer

Client

Clustering

Codec

Cookies

Cryptography

Cybersquatting

Denial of service attack

Dynamic HTML (DHTML)

Digital

Digital subscriber line (DSL)

Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT)

Emoticons

Enterprise

Extranet

Fat client

Feeware/payware

Fibre-Optics

Frame

Freeware

FTP—file transfer protocol

Full duplex audio

HDML

Intel microprocessor

Integration

IP—internetworking protocol

ISP—Internet service provider

JavaScript

JPEG

Lossy Compression

MP3

MPEG

Multimedia

Network

Nexus

OC-12

OC-3

PDA

Ping

Platform

Processor (CPU, microprocessor, chip)

Real-time

Resolution

Router

Scripting host

Script language

Secure electronic transactions (SET)

Set-top box

Server

Shareware

Spam

Secure socket layer (SSL)

Sun Microsystems chips

Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)

SMTP—simple mail transfer protocol

Smurf attack

T-1

T-3

TCP—transfer control protocol

Thin client

Thin server

Video conferencing

VPN

W3C

Warez

XML

 

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