Online services

Online services

Any business that provides its subscribers with a wide variety of data transmitted over telecommunications lines, an infrastructure in which they can communicate with one another as well as the means to connect with an almost unlimited number of third-party information providers.

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HTML banner

Advertising; New media advertising

A banner ad using HTML elements, often mixing interactive forms with standard graphical elements.

pop-up ad

Advertising; New media advertising

Advertising that displays in a new browser window.

search engine spam

Advertising; New media advertising

The excessive manipulation to influence search engine rankings, often for pages which contain little or no relevant content.

vendor

Software; Email

Any company that provides a service. See email vendors.

verification

Software; Email

A program that determines an email came from the sender listed in the return path or Internet headers; designed to stop email from forged senders.

video email

Software; Email

An email message that includes a video file, either inserted into the message body, accessible through a hotlink to a Web site or accompanying it in an attachment (least desirable ...

virus

Software; Email

A program or computer code that affects or interferes with a computer's operating system and gets spread to other computers accidentally or on purpose through email messages, ...