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Internet communication

All the ways used by people to communicate with each other over the Internet, including e-mail, instant messaging (IM), feedback on blogs, contact forms on Web sites, industry forums, chat rooms and social networking sites.

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Internet communication

data area

Internet; Internet communication

The area of a hard drive or diskette that can store data and programs. When a disk is formatted, a boot record, partition table, root directory, and file-allocation table (FAT) are established first ...

aloha

Internet; Internet communication

A data transmission standard developed in the late 1960s by Norman Abramson and a team of researchers at the University of Hawaii. Using TDMA (time division multiple access) technology, Aloha ...

data capture

Internet; Internet communication

The accumulation of information in a form that can be used by the computer.

alphanumeric sort

Internet; Internet communication

A method of ordering data that accounts for alphabetic order, punctuation, and numerals. It often organizes data in the following order: punctuation marks, numbers, capital alphabetic characters, ...

data channel

Internet; Internet communication

The path data follows when traveling between two peripherals.

ALT key

Internet; Internet communication

The ALT (Alternate) key on a computer is used in conjunction with other keys to give a key an additional function other than the one indicated by its label.

data compression

Internet; Internet communication

Any method of condensing information so it can be stored in less space or transmitted in less time. Also called data compaction.

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