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Broadband technology: Technology that offers users a continuous connection to the internet and allows them to send and receive mammoth files that include voice, video, and data much faster than ever before.
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 is expected to save and return to the server whenever the user returns to that Web site.
Data mining: Looking for hidden patterns in the data in a data warehouse and discovering relationships among the data.
Data processing (DP): The name given to business technology in the 1970s. Its primary purpose was to improve the plow of financial information.
Data warehouse: An electronic storage place for data on a specific subject (such as sales) over a period of time.
Data: Raw, unanalyzed, and unorganized facts and figures.
E-business: Any electronic business data exchange using any electronic device.
E-Commerce: Selling products or services online through e-business.
Extranet: A semiprivate network that uses internet technology and allows more than one company to access the same information or allow people on different servers collaborate.
Firewall: Hardware or software that prevents outsiders from accessing information a user does not want others to see.
Hackers: People who unlawfully break into computer systems.
Infoglut: The phenomenon of information overload in business.
Information system (IS): The name given to business technology in the 1980s. Its role changed from supporting the business to doing business.
Information technology (IT): The name given to business technology in the 1990s. Its role became the way of doing business, rather than just using technology to help with business functions.
Information: The processed and organized data that can be used for managerial decision making.
Instant messaging (IM): A computer application that allows business professionals to communicate in real time.
Internet2: The private internet system that links government supercomputer centers and a select group of universities; it runs more than 22,000 times faster than today’s public superstructure and supports heavy-duty applications.
Intranet: A company-wide network, closed to public access, that uses internet-type technology.
Portal: An entry point into a Web site.
Public domain software (freeware): Software that is free for the taking.
Sharewares: Software that is copyrighted but distributed to potential customers free of charge.
Software: A set of programs and procedures used to operate a computer and perform specific tasks with the computer.
Unencrypted: An encryption is a secret code given to information when it is passing through the internet. A unencrypted piece of data can be seen by anyone; it is less secure.
Virtual private network (VPN): A private data network that creates secure connections, or “tunnels” over regular internet lines.
Virtualization: A process that allows networked computers to run multiple operating systems and programs through one central computer at the same time.
Virus: A piece of programing code inserted into other programming to cause an unexpected and usually undesirable event.
Web 2.0: The set of tools that allow people to build social and business connections, share information, and collaborate on projects online (including blogs, wikis, social networking sites and other online communities and virtual worlds).
Wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi): The technology used to obtain an internet connection without having to connect to a phone or cable line.
Wireless networking: Refers to the ability of a computer or device to transport signals through the air.
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