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Presentation Program
A computer program used to create and display presentations, usually in the form of a "slide show". Microsoft Powerpoint is one of the most popular presentation programs.
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ActiveX Controls
ActiveX controls are reusable software programs. Microsoft designed the Internet Explorer web browser to use ActiveX controls to add functionality to web pages. ActiveX Controls have been greatly crit [..]
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Adware
Any advertising software which automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertising material to a computer after the software is installed on it or while the application is being used.
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Bandwidth
Bandwidth in computer networking refers to the data speed supported by a network connection. It is most often expressed in terms of bits per second (bps) or megabits per second (Mps). The term represe [..]
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Blog
A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and web links. Blogs are short for weblogs.
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Blu-ray
What is Blu-ray? Blu-ray, also known as Blu-ray Disc (BD) is the name of a new optical disc format that is rapidly replacing DVD. The format was developed to enable recording, rewriting and playback o [..]
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Broadband
The term Broadband is usually used to describe any high speed connection to the internet.
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cable modem
A modem designed to operate over cable TV lines. Because the coaxial cable used by cable TV provides much greater bandwidth than telephone lines, a cable modem can be used to achieve extremely fast ac [..]
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Cathode ray tube
A glass tube in which streams of electrons, known as cathode rays, are produced. These rays are used to display images in television sets, computer monitors, etc.
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Central processing unit
A central processing unit (CPU), or often simply called a processor, is the component in a computer that interprets instructions and processes data contained in computer programs.
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