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| higher quality and more capacity than standard DVD’s |
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| DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and DVD+RAM |
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| competing DVD formats, each with storage capacities up to 4.7GB per side, that allows users to erase and write many times |
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| competing higher-capacity rewriteable DVD formats. |
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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 mobile storage media |
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| rewritable media usually in the form of a flash memory card, USB flash drive or a smart card. |
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| solid-state media, which means they consist entirely of electronics and contain no moving parts. |
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| 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 and receive data, instructions, and information to and from one or more group computers. |
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| telephones, cables, cellular radio networks,, and satellites. |
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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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| 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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| when a computer is turned on, the operating system is located into the computers memory from auxiliary storage. |
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| provides visual cues such as icon symbols to help the user. |
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| an application such as word processing, 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 users to create slides for use in a presentation to a group. |
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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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| 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 geographical are, such as one that connects the district offices of a national corporation. |
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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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| 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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| OSP(Online service Provider) |
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| provides access to the internet, but it also provides a variety of other specialized content and service such as news, weather, financial data, e-mail, games, and more. |
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| WISP(Wireless Internet Service Provider) |
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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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| one of the more popular segments of the internet |
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| can contain text, graphics, audio, video, and has built-in connections, or links, to other Web documents. |
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