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The name identifying a unique node on the Internet
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domain name
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Four-part numeric address indicating a unique computer locatin on the Internet.
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Internet Protocol (IP) address
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A hierarchical system of servers maintaing databases enabling the conversion of domain names to their IP addresses.
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Domain Name System (DNS)
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Forums in which people share information and ideas on a defined topic through large electronic bulletin boards where anyone can post messages on the topic for others to see and to which others can respond.
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Usernet
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Online groups using e-mail broadcast from mailing list servers.
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LISTSERV
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Live, interactive converstaions over a public network
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chatting
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Chat service that allows participants to create their own private chat channels so that a person can be aletrted whenever someone on his or her private list is online to initiate a chat session with that particular individual.
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instant messaging
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Network tool that allows someone to log on to one computer system while doing work on another.
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Telnet
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Technologies that use the Internet Protocol's packet-switched connections for voice service.
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Internet telephony
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Facilities for managing the delivery of voice information using the Internet Protocol (IP).
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voice over IP (VoIP)
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A secure connection between two points across a public network to transmit corporate data. Provides a low-cost alternative to aprivate network
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virtual private network (VPN)
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Tool for retrieving and transferring files form a remote compputer.
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file transfer protocol (FTP)
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Research network with new protocols and teansmission speeds that provides and infrastructure for supporting high-bandwidth Internet applictions
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Internet2
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A World Wide Web text and graphical screen display that welcomes the user and wxplanins the organization that has established the page.
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home page
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The person in charge of an organization's Web site.
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Webmester
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The address of a specific resource on the Internet.
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uniform resource locator (URL)
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The communications standard used to transfer pages on the Web. Defines how messages are formatted and transmitted.
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hypertext transport protocol
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A tool for locating specific sites or information on the Internet.
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search engine
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Payment to a search service to display a sponsored link to a compan's Web site as a way of advertising that company.
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search-based advertising
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Software with varying levels of built-in intelligence to help electronic commerce shoppers locate and evaluate products or services they might wish to purchase.
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shopping bot
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Method of obtaining relevant information on nietworks by having a computer broadcast information directly to the user based on prespecified interests.
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"push" technology
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Transmission of data to a selected group of recipients.
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multicasting
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Collaborative effort led by the World Wide Web consortium to make Web searching more efficient by reducing the amount of human involvement in searching for and processing Web information.
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Semantic Web
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Hardware and software placed between an organization's internal network and an external network to prevent outsiders form invading private networks.
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firewall
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Wireless computing where users move from wireless hot sot to wireless hot spot to gain network or Internet access.
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nomadic computing
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Wireless computing that allows Internet-enabled cell phones, PDAs, and other wireless computing devices to access digital information from the Internet and other sources form any location.
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mobile computing
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System of protocols and technologies that lets cellphones and other wireless devices wtiht tiny displays, low bandwidth connections, and minimal memory access Web-based information and services.
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Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
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Markup language for wireless Web sites; based on XML, and optimized for tiny displays
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WML (Wireless Markup Language)
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Web brower software with a small file size trhat can work with low-memory sonstraints, tiny screens of handheld wireless devices,and lowbandwidth of wireless networks.
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mictobrowser
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Standard developed by Japan's NTT DoCoMo mobile phone network for enabling cell phones to recive Web-based content and services.
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I-mode.
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An enty ino a Web server's log file generated by each request to the server for a file.
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hit
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Software that prodes functions essential for running e-commerce Web sites, such as setting up electronic cata logs and storefronts, and mechanisms for processing customer purchases.
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electronic commerce server software
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Tracking data about customer activities at Web sites and stroring them in a log.
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clickstream tracking
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Tracking users' movements on a Web site, comparing the information gleaned about a user's behavior against data about other customers with similar interests to predict what the user would like to see next.
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collaborative filitering
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Software to facilitate the collection, assembly, and management of content on a Web site, intranet, or extranet.
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Web content management tools
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Technology for storing the contents of Web pages as objects in a data base wher they can be accessed and assembled to create constantly changing Web pages.
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Dynamic page generation
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Software tool for monitoring the time to download Web pages, perform Web transactions, identify broken links between Web pages, and pinpoint other Web site problems and bottle-necks.
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Web site performance monitoring tools
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Company with large Web server computers to maintain the Web sites of fee-paying subscribers.
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Web hosting service
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Period of time in which a information system is not operational.
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downtime
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