Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Brute Force Attacks

Brute Force Attacks An attempt to gain unauthorized access to a computing system by generating and trying all possible passwords.

Browser Hijacking

Browser hijacking is the modification of a web browser's settings by malware. The term "hijacking" is used as the changes are performed without the user's permission.

Telecommuting

Telecommuting is the act of a remote employee using telecommunications technology in order to interact with an employer or office environment opposed to physically working in the office. 

Online Learning

Online Learning is basically education that occurs online via computer

Keyless Entry System

Keyless Entry System is a system designed to remotely permit or deny access to premises or automobiles This system was invented by mechanical engineer A.B. Makkar.

Electronic Commerce

Electronic Commerce (e-comerce)  is a catch-all term for trading via electronic telecommunications such as the Internet or WAP.

Digital Cash

Digital Cash is a system that allows a person to pay for goods or services by transmitting a number from one computer to another.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking involves determining the meaning and significance of what is observed or expressed, or, concerning a given inference or argument, determining whether there is adequate justification to accept the conclusion as true.

Business-to-government (B2G)

Business-to-government (B2G) is a derivative of B2B marketing and often referred to as a market definition of "public sector marketing" which encompasses marketing products and services to various government levels - including federal, state and local - through integrated marketing. 

Business-to-Consumer (B2C)

Business-to-Consumer (B2C) describes activities of businesses serving end consumers with products and/or services.

Business-to-Business (B2B)

Business-to-Business (B2B) describes commerce transactions between businesses, such as between a manufacturer and a wholesaler, or between a wholesaler and a retailer. Contrasting terms are business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-government (B2G).

Wildcard Character

Wildcard Character has the following meanings: In telecommunications, a wildcard character is a character that may be substituted for any of a defined subset of all possible characters.

Wiki

Wiki is a website designed for multiple people to collaborate by adding and editing content. 

Trademark

Trademark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual, business organization, or other legal entity to identify that the products or services to consumers with which the trademark appears originate from a unique source, and to distinguish its products or services. 

Shared Bookmark

Shared bookmark are basically ways to connect to web sites, resources,social networks and etc.  

Search Engine

Search Engine  is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web.

Related Search

 Related Search helps users drill down further on each search result by offering suggestions related to each individual result. These are positioned below the search result, helping to increase the chance of a relevant result for the user.

Public Domain

Public Domain refers to the knowledge that is freely available, commonly shared throughout the world without any access restrictions.

Podcatcher

Podcatcher  is a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is submitting material that in part or whole is not entirely one's own work without attributing those same portions to their correct source.

Phrase Searching

Phrase Searching is a search process that allows you to combine words so that you only get records where the words are next to each other in the order specified.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Peer-to- Peer (P2P)

Peer-to- Peer (P2P) is a term used to describe a group of methods for more efficiently delivering content to a consumer over the Internet. 

News Feed

News Feed is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors syndicate a web feed, thereby allowing users to subscribe to it.

Math Symbols

Math Symbols is a listing of common symbols found within all branches of mathematics. Each symbol is listed in both HTML, which depends on appropriate fonts to be installed, and in , as an image.

Link List

Link List is a list of links that exchange is a confederation of websites that operates similarly to a web ring.

Libel

Libel Defamation—also called calumny, vilification, slander (for transitory statements), and libel (for written, broadcast, or otherwise published words)—is the communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give an individual, business, product.

Keywords

Keywords is a word or identifier that has a particular meaning to the programming language.

Indexes

Indexes is a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval operations on a database table at the cost of slower writes and increased storage space.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Secure Sockets Layer

Secure Sockets Layer  is a application layer protocol created by Netscape for managing the security of message transmissions in a network. SSL uses the public-and-private key encryption system from RSA, which also includes the use of a digital certificate.

Feed

Feed  is the process for conceptual development of processing industry projects. Example of processing industry are upstream, petrochemical, refining, pharmaceutical.

Directories

Directories  specifically the command line interface of the OpenVMS operating system, the DIRECTORY command (often abbreviated as DIR) is used to list the files inside a directory. 

Copyright

Copyright is the set of exclusive rights granted to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work. These rights can be licensed, transferred and/or assigned.

Boolean Logic

Boolean Logic is a complete system for logical operations, used in many systems. It was named after George Boole, who first defined an algebraic system of logic in the mid 19th century.

Blog

Blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.

Wiki

Wiki is a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor.

Web App

Web App is an application that is accessed via a web browser over a network such as the Internet or an intranet.

Website

Website is a collection of related web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that are addressed relative to a common Uniform Resource Locator (URL), often consisting of only the domain name, or the IP address, and the root path ('/') in an Internet Protocol.

Web Cache

Web Cache is the caching of web documents (e.g., HTML pages, images) to reduce bandwidth usage, server load, and perceived lag. A web cache stores copies of documents passing through it; subsequent requests may be satisfied from the cache if certain conditions are met.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is the popular term for advanced Internet technology and applications including blogs, wikis, RSS and social bookmarking.

Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a subset of the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it.

Social Networking Site

Social Networking Site are virtual communities in which people with a shared interest may communicate. for example, Facebook.

Really Simple Syndication(RSS)

Really Simple Syndication(RSS) is a format for allowing content from one online resource to be reproduced (syndicated) by other websites or systems.

Portal

Portal a site that the owner positions as an entrance to other sites on the internet.

Podcast

Podcast  is a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication.

Mosaic

Mosaic is the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web. It was also a client for earlier protocols such as FTP, Usenet, and Gopher.

Internet Service Provider (ISP)

 Internet Service Provider (ISP) also sometimes referred to as an Internet access provider (IAP), is a company that offers its customers access to the Internet.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an Application Layer protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.

Hypertext Markup Language (MTML)

Hypertext Markup Language (MTML)  is the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists etc as well as for links, quotes, and other items.

Home Page

Home Page is the URL or local file that automatically loads when a web browser starts or when the browser's "home" button is pressed.

Hit

Hit is basically the number of results when searched. For example "2000 hits were found of Angelina Jolie"