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- uptime - Uptime is a computer industry term for the time during which a co...
- uptime and downtime - Uptime is a computer industry term for ...
- URL shortening - A URL shortener is a service that translates long...
- usability - Also see human-computer interaction and graphical user inte...
- user group - In personal or business computing, a user group is a set ...
- user input device - A data glove is an interactive device, rese...
- user interface redressing - Clickjacking (also known as...
- UTC - Coordinated Universal Time (abbreviated as UTC, and therefore often spe...
- UTF 16 - UTF-16 (16- bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a standard meth...
- UTF-16 - UTF-16 (16- bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a standard meth...
- UTF-16 (16- bit Unicode Transformation Format)
- utility computing - Utility computing is a service provisioning...
- UTP - This definition closely duplicates the definition for twisted pair.
- v-commerce - Virtual commerce (sometimes known as vCommerce, v-commerc...
- value added reseller - In the computer and other industries,...
- value chain - A value chain is "a string of companies working togethe...
- value-added reseller - In the computer and other industries,...
- vandal - A vandal is an executable file, usually an applet or an ActiveX c...
- vanilla - In information technology, vanilla (pronounced vah-NIHL-uh) is ...
- Vannevar Bush - An electrical engineer by training, Vannevar Bush i...
- vaporware - Vaporware is software or hardware that is announced publicl...
- VAR - In the computer and other industries, a VAR (value-added reseller) is a...
- VAR (value-added reseller) - In the computer and other...
- varicode - Varicode is a method of binary character encoding in which th...
- vCom - Virtual commerce (sometimes known as vCommerce, v-commerce, or vCom) ...
- vCommerce - Virtual commerce (sometimes known as vCommerce, v-commerce,...
- vector - A vector is a quantity or phenomenon that has two independent pro...
- vectored interrupt - In a computer, a vectored interrupt is an...
- vendor - A vendor (pronounced VEHN-duhr, from French vendre, meaning to se...
- Venn diagram - A Venn diagram is an illustration of the relationship...
- VersaModular Eurocard bus - VMEbus (VersaModular Euroca...
- very high-speed Backbone Network Service
- very long instruction word - Very long instruction wor...
- video or visual display terminal - VDT (video di...
- virtual - In general, virtual means the quality of effecting something wi...
- virtual commerce - Virtual commerce (sometimes known as vCommerc...
- virtual commerce (vCommerce, v-commerce, or vCom)
- virtual learning environment - A virtual learning en...
- virtual learning environment (VLE) or managed l...
- Virtual Storage Access Method - VSAM (Virtual Stora...
- virtualization manager - A hypervisor, also called a virtu...
- viseme - A viseme is a generic facial image that can be used to describe a...
- visual display - VDT (video display terminal, or sometimes visual ...
- VLE - A virtual learning environment (VLE) is a set of teaching and learning ...
- Voice Markup Language - VoxML (Voice Markup Language) is a ...
- voice morphing - Voice morphing is the software-generated alterati...
- volatile - In general, volatile (from the Latin "volatilis" meaning "to ...
- volatile memory - Volatile memory is computer storage that only m...
- volume - In computers, a volume is an identifiable unit of data storage th...
- von Neumann bottleneck - The von Neumann bottleneck is a l...
- von Neumann, John - John von Neumann was the scientist who conc...
- wall clock time - Wall time, also called real-world time or wall-...
- wall time - Wall time, also called real-world time or wall-clock time, ...
- wall time (real-world time or wall-clock time)
- war chalking - Warchalking is a grass roots effort to create a stand...
- warchalking - Warchalking is a grass roots effort to create a standar...
- warchalking (war chalking) - Warchalking is a grass ro...
- wares - Warez (pronounced as though spelled "wares" or possibly by some pro...
- warez - Warez (pronounced as though spelled "wares" or possibly by some pro...
- warm boot - To reboot is to restart a computer and reload the operating...
- warm server - In the backup and recovery of a computer server, a cold...
- Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regul...
- Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regul...
- wave a dead chicken - Waving a dead chicken is a slang expres...
- wave number - The term wave number refers to the number of complete w...
- wavelength division multiplexing - Wavelength-di...
- waving a dead chicken - Waving a dead chicken is a slang ex...
- Web app - A Web application (Web app) is an application program that is s...
- Web application - A Web application (Web app) is an application p...
- Web application (Web app) - A Web application (Web app)...
- Web compression - Compression is the reduction in size of data in...
- Web-Braille - Web-Braille is a delivery system that allows content to...
- Webmaster - A Webmaster is a person who either:Creates and manages the ...
- wedge - A keyboard wedge can be either a software program or an inserted ha...
- WEEE - Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulation (WEEE) is a dire...
- weenie - On bullet board systems (BBS) and in Internet chatting groups, a ...
- Werner Heisenberg - Werner Heisenberg (1901 - 1976), one of the...
- white paper - A white paper is an article that states an organization...
- white space device - A white space device is an FCC-certified ...
- white space device (WSD) - A white space device is an FC...
- whole number - An integer (pronounced IN-tuh-jer) is a whole number ...
- Windows clustering - In computers, clustering is the use of mu...
- winner's curse - In negotiation, winner's curse is an offer that i...
- wipe - Wipe, in a computing context, means to erase all data on a hard drive...
- wireless personal area network - A WPAN (wireless ...
- word - In computer architecture, a word is a unit of data of a defined bitle...
- Words-to-Go - Internet Protocol (IP) - method or protocol by which da...
- Words-to-Go: Voice over IP - Internet Protocol (IP) - ...
- work load - In computing, the workload is the amount of processing that...
- workaround - A workaround is a method, sometimes used temporarily, for...
- workload - In computing, the workload is the amount of processing that t...
- WPAN - A WPAN (wireless personal area network) is a personal area network - ...
- WPAN (wireless personal area network) - A W...
- WSD - A white space device is an FCC-certified wireless device that can be us...
- X dimension - In barcode technology, the X dimension is the narrowest...
- X engineering - X-engineering (sometimes called cross-engineering) ...
- X-engineering - X-engineering (sometimes called cross-engineering) ...
- X-engineering (cross-engineering) - X-engineeri...
- XML Query Language - XQL (XML Query Language) is a way to loca...
- Y/C Video - S-Video (Super-Video, sometimes referred to as Y/C Video, o...
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  An Apple Authorized Service Provider (Apple ASP) is an individual or organization that can legally service Apple products although their warranties are held by other entities. Service by anyone other than an authorized service provider (ASP) will render a product's warranty void.
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  An authorized service provider (ASP) is an individual or an organization that is permitted to service products that are covered by warranties held by another entity. Service conducted by anyone other than an authorized service provider will generally render a warranty void.
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- Opscode Chef
  
  Chef is an open-source systems management and cloud infrastructure automation framework created by Opscode. Devops can use Chef to deploy and manage servers and applications in-house and in the cloud.
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  Zabbix is an open-source tool designed to monitor networks, servers, appliances and other hardware through a Linux-based server, which communicates to the native agents that are available for many operating systems, including Linux, UNIX and Windows.
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- SoMoClo (social, mobile and cloud)
  
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- Vine (Vine app)
  
  Vine is a free mobile application that enables users to record and share an unlimited number of short, looping video clips with a maximum length of six seconds.
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  Google Wallet is a mobile payment system developed by Google that allows smartphone users to store debit and credit card information for online and in-store purchases.
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  A sunk cost is money that has already been spent and cannot be recovered. Logic dictates that because sunk costs will not change -- no matter what actions are taken -- they should not play a role in decision-making. Emotionally, however, the more someone invests time, effort and money on something, the harder it becomes to leave it and move on.
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  The Parallel Network File System (pNFS) is part of the NFS v4.1 protocol that allows compute clients to access storage devices directly and in parallel.

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