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Vangie Beal

Vangie Beal is a freelance business and technology writer covering Internet technologies and online business since the late '90s.

Vangie Beal

DDoS Attack

What’s a DDOS attack? A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is a type of cyber attack in which a hacker...

Petabyte

A petabyte is 1015 bytes of digital information. The unit symbol for the petabyte is PB. It is a measure...

Internet Protocol

Internet protocol (IP) is a primary set of communication protocols for exchanging data packets or datagrams across internet-connected networks. The...

How To Defrag A Hard Drive

A little preventative maintenance goes a long way when it comes to your Windows-based PCs. All Windows operating systems come...

Management Software

Management software is a general phrase used to describe a category of computer software designed to help streamline the complexity...

Stock Photo

A stock photo is a professional-grade photograph that is available for free or bought and sold for a range of...

Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS)

Short for commercial off-the-shelf, an adjective that describes software or hardware products that are ready-made and available for sale to...

Google Hangouts

Updated by Jenna Phipps Google Hangouts is a cloud-based messaging and video chat application developed by Google. It started as...

Random Access Memory (RAM)

Random access memory (RAM) is a high-speed component in devices that temporarily stores all information a device needs for the...

OEM – original equipment manufacturer

OEM – Original Equipment Manufacturer reviewed by Web Webster What is OEM? OEM (pronounced as separate letters) is short for...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Software

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is business process management software that allows an organization to use a system of integrated applications...

What’s an SSID – and how to find yours

  Service Set Identifier (SSID) reviewed by Web Webster What exactly is an SSID? Should you keep your SSID hidden?...