Glossary
Including acronyms and abbreviations
Words or acronyms in italics are explained in a separate entry. | AI Artificial Intelligence. |
| Analogue Prior to digital technology, electronic transmission was limited to analogue technology, which conveys data as electronic signals of varying frequency or amplitude that are added to carrier waves of a given frequency. Broadcast and telephone transmission originally used analogue technology (cf. digital). |
| Applications Programs other than an operating system are called applications. |
| ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange - standard method of translating alphabetical and numerical characters and other symbols into binary numbers. |
| ASP Application Service Provider - is a company that hosts and manages business applications on behalf of a client. These applications can vary from basic e-mail to extremely complex and demanding applications such as ERP and CRM. |
| Availability The percentage of time a system is operating efficiently. |
| Backbone The major artery of a distributed system. At the local level, a backbone is a line or set of lines that local area networks connect to. On a wide area network, a backbone is a set of paths that local or regional networks connect to for long-distance interconnection. |
| Bandwidth The bandwidth of a transmitted communications signal is a measure of the range of frequencies the signal occupies. Animated videos, large sound files, and some computer programs require a great deal of bandwidth, and can sometimes cause the system to slowdown in performance. |
| Banners Can either be an image that announces the name or identity of a site (and often is spread across the width of the web page) or an advertising image. Advertisers sometimes count banner ‘views’, or the number of times a banner graphic image was downloaded over a period of time. |
| BASIC Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (computer language). |
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Publication information:
Book title: Business, Information Technology and Society.
Contributors: Stephen D. Tansey - Author.
Publisher: Routledge.
Place of publication: London.
Publication year: 2003.
Page number: 230.
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