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Thumb Drive
A thumb drive is portable memory storage. It is re-writable and
holds its memory without a power supply, unlike RAM. Thumb drives
fit into any USB port on computer. They will also hot swap, which
means a user can plug the drive into computer and will not have to
restart it to access the thumb drive. The drives are small, about a
size of human thumb and are very stable memory storage devices.
Flash Drive
A small, portable flash memory card that plugs into computers USB
port and functions as a portable hard drive. USB flash drives are
easy to use as they are small enough to be carried in a pocket and
can plug into any computer with a USB drive. USB flash drives have
less storage capacity than an external hard drive, but they are
smaller and more durable because they do not contain any internal
moving parts.
Windows Vista
Windows Vista (formerly code named Longhorn) is the next
evolution of Microsofts operating system. Vista offers advancement
in reliability, security, ease of deployment, performance and
manageability over Windows XP.
Blog
Short for Web log, a blog is a web page that serves as a publicly
accessible personal journal for an individual. Typically, updated daily
blogs often reflects the personality of the author.
Viruses
Virus is a malicious program that is loaded onto your computer
without your knowledge and runs against your wishes. Viruses can
also replicate themselves. A simple virus that can make a copy of
itself over and over again is relatively easy to produce. Even such a
simple virus is dangerous because it will quickly use all available
memory and bring the system to halt. An even more type of virus is
capable of transmitting itself across networks and by passing
security systems.
Wireless Access
The word wireless means having no wires. In networking
terminology, wireless is the term used to describe any computer
network where there is no physical wired connection between
sender and receiver, rather the network is connected by radio
waves and microwaves to maintain communications. Wireless
networking utilizes specific equipment such as NICs, Aps and routers
in place of wires for connectivity.

Servers
A computer program, that provides services to other computer
programs in the same or different computers. The computer that
runs the server program is also referred to as server. In client/server
model, a server is a program that awaits and fulfills requests from
clients program in the same or different computers.
Mailing System
Mailing has become the key part of communication network of most
modern offices. Data and messages can be transmitted from one
computer to another using telephone lines, microwave links,
communication satellites, or other telecommunication equipment.
The same message can be sent to number of different addresses.
A specialized type of mail system, voice mail, is relatively simple,
computer-linked technology for recording, storing, retrieving, and
forwarding phone messages, as the messages are spoken and left in
a voice mailbox.
Multimedia
Multimedia is the use of computers to present text, graphics, video,
animation and sound in an integrated way. Long touted as the future
revolution in computing, multimedia applications were, until the
mid-90s, uncommon due to the expensive hardware required. With
increase in performance and decrease in price, however, multimedia
is now a common place. Nearly all PCs are capable of displaying
video, though the resolution available depends upon the power of
the computers video adapter and CPU.
New Technologies
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)
Radio frequency identification is an automatic identification method,
relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called
RIFD tags or transponders. An RFID tag is an object that can be
attached to or incorporated into a product, animal or person for the
purpose of identification using radio waves. Chip-based RFID tags
contain silicon chips and antennas. Passive tags require no internal
power source, whereas active tags require a power source.
Retina Scan
Retinal scan is a biometric technique that uses the unique patterns
on persons retina to identify them. The human retina is stable from
birth to death, making it the most accurate biometric to measure. It
has been possible to take retina scan since the 1930s, when
research suggested that each individual had the unique retina
patterns. The research was validated and we know the blood vessels
at the back of the eye have unique pattern, from eye to eye and
person to person.. a retinal scan involves the use of low-intensity

light source and coupler that are used to read the blood vessel
patterns, producing very accurate biometric data.
WiMAX
WiMAX is defined as worldwide interoperability for microwave
access by the WiMAX Forum, formed in June 2001 to promote
conformance and interoperability of the IEEE802.16 standard,
officially known as wireless MAN. WiMAX aims to provide wireless
data over long distances, in a variety of different ways, from point to
point links to full mobile cellular type access. The forum describes
WiMAX as standard based technology enabling the delivery of last
mile wireless broadband access as an alternative to cable and DSL
(Digital Subscribers Link).
Websites
A website is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other
digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or sub domain on
the World Wide Web. A web page is a document, typically written in
HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) that is almost always
accessible via HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol), a protocol that
transfer information from the websites server to display in the
users web browser. All publicly accessible websites are seen
collectively as constituting the world wide web. The pages of
websites can usually be accessed from a common root URL
(Universal Resource Location) called the homepages, and usually
reside on the same physical server. The URLs of the pages organize
them into a hierarchy, although the hyperlinks between them
control how the reader perceives the overall structure and how the
traffic flows between the different parts of the sites.