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What is Hardware?

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Submitted: 25 Apr 2007
Updated: 24 Nov 2007

Hardware is the physical, tangible components of a computer or other electronic device. The term hardware traditionally refers to the physical components of any technology, which is paired with human or animal power and skill to perform it's function... [more]



What is HTML?

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Submitted: 21 Oct 2006
Updated: 24 Nov 2007

HTML is the language in which webpages are written. The acronym stands for HyperText Markup Language. The term "Hypertext" refers to the links inside of HTML pages, which allow the user to quickly jump from page to page, and even to different places ... [more]



What is HTML Email?

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Submitted: 8 Nov 2006
Updated: 24 Nov 2007

HTML Email is a type of email message formatted with the HTML markup language. This means that instead of writing plain text, the authors of email messages formatted in HTML can change the font size and colour of their text, and can add pictures, tab... [more]



What is a Hybrid Vehicle?

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Submitted: 2 Nov 2007

A hybrid car is an automobile that has two or more major sources of propulsion power. Most hybrid cars currently marketed to consumers have both conventional gasoline and electric motors, with the ability to power the vehicle by either one independen... [more]



What is Infrared?

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Submitted: 13 May 2007

Infrared, or IR, is the the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum between 0.750 and 1000 micrometers. The term infrared literally means "below red", reference to the spectrum's location just below the 0.700 micrometers that the human eye perceives ... [more]



What is the Internet?

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Submitted: 6 Dec 2006
Updated: 7 Jan 2008

The Internet is a global network of computers that communicate via TCP/IP protocol. While the uncapitalized term "internet" refers to bridged networks in general, the capitalized term "Internet" refers to the global network of networks that is public... [more]



What is Internet Explorer?

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Submitted: 18 Dec 2006
Updated: 24 Nov 2007

Internet Explorer is Microsoft's integrated web browser. Known by its acronym IE, the program is referred to as an integrated web browser, rather than as a standard web browser, because of the heavy reliance between it and Microsoft's Windows operati... [more]



What is the iPhone?

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Submitted: 2 Feb 2007
Updated: 9 Dec 2007

The iPhone is an integrated cellular telephone and media player developed and marketed by Apple. The device combines the main functions of several popular electronic gadgets in a single device, with a shared interface and integration between them. In... [more]



What is Jabber?

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Submitted: 30 Jun 2007

Jabber is the trade name of the XMPP instant messaging protocol. XMPP, or Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, is an open source IM protocol designed to facilitate email using similar resources. Any email server or other webserver can be modif... [more]



What is Java?

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Submitted: 12 Oct 2006
Updated: 24 Nov 2007

Java is a programming language. Java differs from most other programming languages in that programs written in Java can generally be run on many different types of computers, not only the type of computer it was written on. This is because Java is ru... [more]


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