Internet communication

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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fault tolerance

Internet; Internet communication

Allows a computer to suffer some types of faults without losing data. Operating systems, such as Windows, have some of these capabilities built into their architecture.

favicon

Internet; Internet communication

The name given to a custom icon used for a specific Web site. A Web site can create a 16 x 16 pixel icon that can be named favicon. When a user adds a Web page, Internet Explorer version 5.0 or newer ...

feature

Internet; Internet communication

A useful and noteworthy aspect of hardware or software is called a feature. A common feature of a word processing program might be that it performs spelling and grammar checks concurrent with the ...

femto

Internet; Internet communication

An International System of Units (SI) prefix meaning one quadrillionth, or 10 to the negative 15th power.

firewall

Internet; Internet communication

Software or hardware that limits or restricts certain kinds of computer access from a network or other outside source. A router is a good example of a hardware device that often has a built-in ...

fisheye lens

Internet; Internet communication

A camera lens that can be attached to some cameras to produce a very specific effect. A fisheye lens is a very wide angle lens that takes straight lines of an image and displays them as curves. ...

flash drive

Internet; Internet communication

USB (Universal Serial Bus) flash drives are high-speed, high-capacity memory devices designed for long-term data storage and easy transport among PCs. A flash drive is also called a thumb drive or ...