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| is 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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| is a type of optical disc that users can read but not written on or erase –hence, the name read-only. |
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| is an optical disc onto which you can record your own items such as text, graphics, and audio. You can write on part of disc the at one time and another part at a later time |
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| is an erasable optical disc you can write on multiple times. Overcomes the major disadvantage of CD-R disc. |
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| is a very high-capacity optical disc capable of storing from 4.7 GB to 17 GB |
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| it is use to read DVD-ROM |
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| competing DVD-recordable formats, each with up to 4.7GB storage cap. |
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| DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and DVD+RAM- |
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| are competing DVD formats, each with storage capacities up to 4.7 GB per side |
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| is 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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| is used to read from and write on a tape. |
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| Miniature mobile storage medias |
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| is rewriteable media usually in form of a flash memory card, USB flash drive, or a smart card. |
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| are solid-state media, which means they consist entirely of electronics and contain no moving parts. (compact flash, secure digital, xD picture card, and memory stick. |
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| stores data on a thin microprocessor embedded in the card. |
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| is a hardware component that enables a computer to send and receive data, instructions, and information to and from one or more computers. |
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| telephone lines, cables, cellular radio networks, and satellites. |
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| is the key to productive use of computers. |
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| consist of programs to control the operations of computer equipment. |
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| tell the computer how to perform the functions of loading, storing, and executing an application program and how to transfer data. |
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| Hypertext transfer protocol |
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| the communications standard used to transfer pages on the web. |
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| consist of programs designed to make users more productive and/or assist them with personal tasks. |
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| is 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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| is a collection of computers and devices connected together, often wirelessly, via communications devices and transission 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 in a laboratory, office, or group of buildings |
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| A network that covers a large geographical area, such as one that connects the district offices of a national corporation. |
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| is 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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| is an organization, such as a cable company or telephone company, that supplies connections to the intrnet 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 data, e-mail, games, and more |
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| wireless internet service provider(WISP) |
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| is a company that provides wireless internet access to computers and mobile devices such as smart phones and PDAs. |
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| one of the more popular segments of the internet which contains billions of documents called web pages. |
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| can contain text, graphics, audio, and video, and has built-in connections, or links, to other web documents |
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| is a related collection of web pages |
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| visitors to a web site acess and view web pages using a software progam |
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| uniform resource locator(URL) |
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| a web page has a unique address |
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