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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.
Storage

Spooling

SPOOL (an acronym for Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On-Line) is a buffering...
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Password Manager

A password manager is a software application or a hardware device...
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Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks

A Denial of Service, or DoS as it is...
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Definitions

Flash

Flash is a vector-graphic animation technology. Introduced in 1995 as FutureSplash,...
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Security

DDoS Attack

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is a type of DoS...
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Definitions

Petabyte

A petabyte is 1015 bytes of digital information. The unit symbol...
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Internet Protocol

Internet protocol (IP) is a primary set of communication protocols for...
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IT

How To Defrag A Hard Drive

A little preventative maintenance goes a long way when...
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Design

Stock Photo

Stock photos are professional-grade photographs that are available for free or...
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Definitions

Management Software

Management software is a general phrase used to describe a category...
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Ecommerce

Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS)

Short for commercial off-the-shelf, an adjective that describes software or hardware...
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Communications

Google Hangouts

Updated by Jenna Phipps Google Hangouts is a cloud-based messaging and video...
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