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| a magnetically coated ribbon of plastic housed in a tape cartridge capable of storing large amounts of data and information at a low cost. |
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| Miniature Mobil storage Media |
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| rewriteable media usually in the form of a flash memory card, USB flash drive, or a smart card. |
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| sometimes called a pen drive or thumb drive is a flash memory storage device that plugs into a USB port on a computer or mobile device. |
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| similar in size to a credit card or ATM card, stores data on a thin microprocessor embedded in the card. |
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| a hardware component that enables a computer to send (transmit) and receive data, instructions, and information to and from one or more computers. |
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| such as a telephone lines, cables, cellular radio networks, and satellites. |
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| means they have no physical lines or wires. |
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| the key to productive use of computers. |
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| consists of programs to control the operations of computer equipment. |
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| tells the computer how to perform the functions of loading, storing, and executing and application program and how to transfer data. |
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| Graphical user interface (GUI) |
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| provides visual cues such as icon symbols to help the user. |
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| represents an application such as word processsing, or a file or document where data is stored. |
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| Consists of programs designed to make users more productive and/or assist them with personal tasks. |
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| used to create, edit, format, and print documents. |
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| Electronic Spreadsheet Software |
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| allows the user to add, subtract, and perform user-defined calculations on rows and columns of numbers. |
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| allows the user to enter, retrieve, and update data in an organized and efficient manner. |
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| Presentation graphics software |
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| allows the user to create slides for use in a presentation to a group. |
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| a portable storage medium that consists of a flat, round, portable disc made of metal, plastic, and lacquer that is written and read by a laser. |
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| a type of optical disc that users can read but not write on 9record) or erase. |
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| (Compact disc-recordable) is an optical disc onto which you can record your own items such as text, graphics, and audio. |
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| is an erasable optical disc you can write on multiple times. |
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| (digital versatile disk-read-only memory) is a very high-capacity optical disc capable of storing from 4.7 GB to 17 GM- more than enough to hold a telephone book containing every resident is the United States. |
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| A collection of computers and devices connected together, often wirelessly, via communications devices and transmission media. |
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| When a computer connects to a network. |
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| A network that connects computers in a limited geographic area, such as a school computer laboratory, office, or group of buildings. |
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| A network that covers a large geographical area, such aas one that connects the district offices of national corporation. |
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| A worldwide collection of networks that connects millions of businesses, government agencies, educational institutions, and individuals. |
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| ISP (Internet Service Provider) |
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| An organization, such as a cable company or telephone company, that supplies connections to the Internet for a monthly fee. |
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| Online Service Provider (OSP) |
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| Provides access to the internet, but It also provides a variety of other specialized content and services such as news, weather, financial dada, e-mail, games and more. |
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| Wireless Internet service provider (WISP) |
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| A company that provides wireless internet access to computers and mobile devices such as smart phones and PDAs. |
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| Also called the web which contains billions of documents called web pages. |
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| Contains text, graphics, audio, and video, and has built-in connections, or links, to other web documents. |
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| A related collection of web pages. |
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| Visitors to a website access and view web pages using this software program. |
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| Uniform Resource Locator (URL) |
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| A web pages unique address. |
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| Stands for Hypertext transfer protocol, the communications standard used to transfer pages on the web. |
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| A computer that delivers (serves) requested web pages. |
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| When you conduct business activities online, you are participating in electronic commerce, also known as this. |
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| Business to consumer (B2C) |
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| Involves the sale of goods to the general public. |
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| Consumer to consumer (C2C) |
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| Involves one consumer selling directly to another. |
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