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- urban legend - An urban legend is a tale of contemporary folklore th...
- user session - In tabulating statistics for Web site usage, a user s...
- user session (visit) - In tabulating statistics for Web site...
- user-generated content (UGC) - User-generated conten...
- VC - Venture capital (VC) is funding invested, or available for investment, in...
- venture capital - Venture capital (VC) is funding invested, or av...
- venture capital (VC) - Venture capital (VC) is funding inves...
- vertical portal - Vortal is also short for voice portal.
- vertical portal (vortal) - Vortal is also short for voic...
- Video: Web 2.0 Explained - If you've been left wondering...
- viral marketing - On the Internet, viral marketing is any marketi...
- virtual community - A virtual community is a community of peopl...
- virus kit - A phishing kit is a collection of tools assembled to make i...
- visit - In tabulating statistics for Web site usage, a user session (someti...
- VK - VKontakte (VK) is Europe's largest social networking website, with more t...
- VKontakte - VKontakte (VK) is Europe's largest social networking websit...
- VKontakte (VK) - VKontakte (VK) is Europe's largest social network...
- vortal - Vortal is also short for voice portal.
- WAIS - WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers) is an Internet system in which s...
- WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers) - WAIS ...
- walled garden - On the Internet, a walled garden is an environment ...
- WAP - WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) is a specification for a set of com...
- WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) - WAP (Wi...
- war dialer - A war dialer is a computer program used to identify the p...
- war dialing - A war dialer is a computer program used to identify the...
- war driving - War driving, also called access point mapping, is the a...
- war driving (access point mapping) - War drivi...
- wardriving - War driving, also called access point mapping, is the act...
- wares - Warez (pronounced as though spelled "wares" or possibly by some pro...
- warez - Warez (pronounced as though spelled "wares" or possibly by some pro...
- wave a dead chicken - Waving a dead chicken is a slang expres...
- waving a dead chicken - Waving a dead chicken is a slang ex...
- Wayback Machine - The Wayback Machine is a Web site that enables ...
- Web 2 - Web 2.0 (or Web 2) is the popular term for advanced Internet techno...
- Web 2.0 - Web 2.0 (or Web 2) is the popular term for advanced Internet te...
- Web 2.0 (or Web 2) - Web 2.0 (or Web 2) is the popular term fo...
- Web 2.0 suicide - Web 2.0 suicide is the obliteration of informat...
- Web archives - The Wayback Machine is a Web site that enables anyone...
- Web farm - A server farm is a group of computers acting as servers and h...
- web hosting - Hosting (also known as Web site hosting, Web hosting, a...
- Web server farm - A server farm is a group of computers acting as...
- web site hosting - Hosting (also known as Web site hosting, Web ...
- Web texting - Web texting is two-way text messaging from the Web to a...
- Web year - A Web year is the length of time it takes for Internet techno...
- Web-based malware - A drive-by download is a program that is au...
- webhosting - Hosting (also known as Web site hosting, Web hosting, and...
- Webification - Webification (sometimes seen with a lower case w) is ...
- Webify - The act of converting content from its original format into a for...
- Webisode - A Webisode is a single push technology episode.
- weblog - A weblog, sometimes written as web log or Weblog, is a Web site t...
- weblog - A blog (short for weblog) is a personal online journal that is fr...
- white hat - White hat describes a hacker (or, if you prefer, cracker) w...
- white list - A whitelist is a list of e-mail addresses or domain names...
- white space device - A white space device is an FCC-certified ...
- white space device (WSD) - A white space device is an FC...
- whitelist - A whitelist is a list of e-mail addresses or domain names f...
- Wide Area Information Servers - WAIS (Wide Area Inf...
- Wide-Area Information Servers - WAIS (Wide Area Inf...
- wiki - A wiki (sometimes spelled "Wiki") is a server program that allows use...
- WikiLeaks - WikiLeaks is an independent, non-profit online media organi...
- wikinomics - Wikinomics is a term that describes the effects of extens...
- WIMP - WIMP is an acronym describing the desktop user interface familiar to ...
- windows icons mouse and pull down menus
- windows icons mouse and pull-down menus
- windows icons mouse and pulldown menus
- windows, icons, mouse, and pull-down menus (WIMP)
- Winsock - Winsock is a programming interface and the supporting program t...
- Wireless Application Protocol - WAP (Wireless Appli...
- wireless Web - The wireless Web refers to use of the World Wide Web ...
- wolf - In biometric verification, a goat is a system end-user who is refused...
- workaround - A workaround is a method, sometimes used temporarily, for...
- WSD - A white space device is an FCC-certified wireless device that can be us...
- XACL - XACML (Extensible Access Control Markup Language) is an open standard...
- XACML - XACML (Extensible Access Control Markup Language) is an open standa...
- XACML (Extensible Access Control Markup Language)
- XING - XING is a European social networking website for business professionals.
- xSP - xSP is a generic term for any kind of service provider on the Internet.
- yak shaving - Yak shaving is programming lingo for the seemingly endl...
- zero day - A zero-day exploit is one that takes advantage of a security ...
- zero-day exploit - A zero-day exploit is one that takes advantag...
- zine - The term ezine is short for "electronic magazine.
- zombie - A zombie (also known as a bot) is a computer that a remote attack...
- zombie (bot) - A zombie (also known as a bot) is a computer that a r...
- zombie army - A zombie army (also known as a botnet) is a number of I...
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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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- 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)
  
  SoMoClo (social, mobile and cloud) is the convergence of collaborative, on-the-go technologies that allow users to access data and applications from anywhere at any time.
- SoLoMo (social, local and mobile)
  
  SoLoMo (social, local and mobile) is a term representing the convergence of collaborative, location-based and on-the-go technologies, primarily used for marketing and discovery purposes.
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  Samsung Galaxy Note is a large Android smartphone with a touchscreen and stylus that is manufactured by Samsung Electronics.
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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.
- sunk cost (SC)
  
  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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- I/O contention (input/output contention)
  
  I/O contention (input/output contention), occurs when virtual machines compete for I/O resources because there is a limited storage bandwidth.
- erasure coding
  
  Erasure coding (EC) is a method of data protection in which data is broken into fragments, expanded and encoded with redundant data pieces, and stored across a set of different locations, such as disks, storage nodes or geographic locations.
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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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