COMM180 - Chapter Bonus B
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- shareware
- software that is copyrighted but distributed to potential customers free of charge.
- Internet2
- private inernet system that links government supercomputer centers and a select group of universities: it runs more than 22,000 times faster than today's public infrastrcture and support heavy-duty applications.
- intranet
- a companywide network, close to public access that uses internet-type technology.
- virus
- a piece of programming code inserted into other programming to cause some unepected and, for the victim, usually undeseriable event.
- Virtual Private Network (VPN)
- a private date network that creates secure connection, or "tunnels", over regular internet lines.
- public domain software (freeware)
- software that is free in the public domain.
- business intelligence
- any of a variety of software applications that analyze an organization's raw data and take out useful insights from it.
- information systems
- technology that helps companies do business; inclues such tools as ATMs and voice mail.
- broadband technology
- technology that offers users a quick, continous connection to the internet.
- network computing system (client/server)
- computer systems that allow personal computers (clients) to obtain information from huge databases ina central computer (the server).
- data processing
- name for business technology in the 1970s; included technology that supported an existing business and was primarily used to improve the flow of financial information.
- cookies
- pieces of information, such as registration data or user preferences, sent by a web site over the internet to a web browser that the browser software is expected to save and send back to the server whenever the user returns to that web site.
- Information technology
- technology that helps companies change business by allowing them to use new methods.
- extranet
- a semiprivate network that uses internet technology and allows more than one company to access the same information or allows people on different servers to collaborate.
- virtualization
- accessibility through technology that allows business to be conducted independent of location.