Consumer Technology

BYOD (bring your own device) is a policy that allows employees in an organization to use their personally owned devices for work-related activities.

NTFS, which stands for 'NT file system' and the 'New Technology File System,' is the file system that the Windows NT operating system (OS) uses for storing and retrieving files on hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs).

NOR flash memory is one of two types of non-volatile storage technologies.

Millennials, also known as Generation Y, is a demographic that includes individuals who reached adulthood around the turn of the 21st century. This definition of the term discusses millennials in the workplace, millennials and technology, millennials and culture.

Hacktivism is the act of misusing a computer system or network for a socially or politically motivated reason.

The dark web, also referred to as the darknet, is an encrypted portion of the internet that is not indexed by search engines and requires specific configuration or authorization to access.

Storage security is the group of parameters and settings that make storage resources available to authorized users and trusted networks -- and unavailable to other entities.

A server is a computer program or device that provides a service to another computer program and its user, also known as the client.

The deep web is an umbrella term for parts of the internet not fully accessible through standard search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo.

Unified communications (UC) is an umbrella term for the integration of multiple enterprise communication tools -- such as voice calling, video conferencing, instant messaging (IM), presence, content sharing, etc. -- into a single, streamlined interface, with the goal of improving user experience (UX) and productivity.

CAD (computer-aided design) is the use of computer-based software to aid in design processes.

Video conferencing is live, visual connection between two or more remote parties over the internet that simulates a face-to-face meeting.

An operating system (OS) is the program that, after being initially loaded into the computer by a boot program, manages all of the other application programs in a computer.

PaaS (platform as a service) is a cloud computing model where a third-party provider delivers hardware and software tools to users over the internet.

COPE (corporate-owned personally-enabled) is a business model in which an organization provides its employees with mobile computing devices and allows the employees to use them as if they were personally-owned notebook computers, tablets or smartphones.

Offset printing, also called offset lithography, is a method of mass-production printing in which the images on metal plates are transferred (offset) to rubber blankets or rollers and then to the print media.

Rafts, skirts and brims are structures created at the base of the bottom of a 3D print. These structures are temporary and used to improve print reliability and quality.

A print bed is the surface on a 3D printer where a print head lays down the materials that make up a 3D print.

A phase-locked loop (PLL) is an electronic circuit with a voltage or voltage-driven oscillator that constantly adjusts to match the frequency of an input signal.

Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) is a digital modulation technique used in digital cellular telephone and mobile radio communication.

COPE (corporate-owned personally-enabled) is a business model in which an organization provides its employees with mobile computing devices and allows the employees to use them as if they were personally-owned notebook computers, tablets or smartphones.