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Internet2: Internet 2 is the testing grounds and is where most research is based. Consortuium of universities businesses, and the goverment working to create a higher performance successor to the internet.

Kiosk: A booth that provides a computer based service. A small stand containing a computer that people use to retrieve pictures and such.

Vaporware: Vaporware issomething that has been released but it has missed its anouncing dae of when it comes out.

MAC adress: Media access control adress. built in and unique permanent number identifying a network device.

Dual Core: 2 cores on one processor. different instructions givin to the computer.

Vhost: Virtual host. place where you are going to host a website. Provides the domain name places to share your files, and the content managers. 

Motherboard: The mother board is the main circuit board thats inside the computer it is what really controls the computer and the whole computer runs through it.

Meebo: Instant messaging Program basiclly combines your accounts into one for simplicity and efficiently sake. Google talk, facebook, and twitter and others

OEM: Stands for Origional Equipment Manager, for a company that will produce hardware under the name
of the brand.

Open Source Software: Software that has its source code published so other people can add their contributions. tons of developed software.

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Encryption: Act of converting information into a code or cipherso that people are unable to reade it. Secret key or code needed to decode information confidential data is often encrypted wireless networks.

QWERTY: Comes from the top left 6 keys. Goes back all the way to the typewriter also when you have a slider phone or smart phone you will see associated termology.

Flash: If you see a flash on the internet it usually means Adobe Flash player which plays video.

Tether: A cellular mobile device that you can use to go onto the internet while using 2g, 3g, or 4g network.

Fragmentation: a problem in which computer memory is used insufficiently.

Frame: Where pages are broken up into different areas each area consists of an independent web page.

HDD: A non valatile random access device for digital data.

Hibernate: A combination of low power and sleep mode saves current page on hard drive then when turned on it doesnt go through the long boot sequence.

Hit: Something found by searching someone else navigating to a web page and viewing it

Hotspot: Exact spot of a pointer that must touch an object in order for the link to be enabled. A place where the pointer can be placed to call up further information.