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ActiveX
ActiveX is a code that defines Microsoft’s interaction between web servers, clients, add-ins and Microsoft Office applications. ActiveX is Microsoft’s answer to Java technology from Sun Microsystems
ADSL
An acronym for Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line, ADSL is part of the DSL range of technologies. It is a method of transmitting data over traditional copper telephone lines at speeds higher than were previously possible. Data can be downloaded at speeds of up to 1.544 Megabits per second and uploaded at speeds of 128 Kilobits per second. (That's why it's termed asymmetric.) This technology is well suited to the Web, where much more data is sent from a server to your computer than you send to the server.
Anti-porn service
Scans e-mails for potentially damaging pornographic material and intercepts them before they reach the company's network.
see also E-mail filtering services; Internet-level scanning
Anti-spam service
Scans for unsolicited 'junk' e-mail and ensures that only relevant e-mails enter the company's system.
see also E-mail filtering services; Internet-level scanning; Spam; blacklist/whitelist
Anti-virus service
Scans e-mail for computer viruses
see also E-mail filtering services; Internet-level scanning; virus
Applet
An applet is a small software application, typically in the Java programming language.
Archie
A software tool for locating files on anonymous FTP sites . Archie is actually an indexing spider that visits each anonymous FTP site, reads all the directory and file names , and then indexes them in one large index. A user can then query Archie which checks the query against the index. To use Archie , you can Telnet to a server that you know has Archie on it and then enter Archie search commands.
ARPANET
This is an acronym for Advanced Research Projects Administration Network, the computer network system that gave birth to the Internet. ARPANET began in 1969 as a U.S. Department of Defence experiment in packet-switched networking.
ASCII
ASCII is an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a 7-bit code that represents the most basic letters of the Roman alphabet, numbers, and other characters used in computing. ASCII characters allow us to communicate with computers, which use their own language called binary made up of 0s and 1s. When we type ASCII characters from the keyboard (which looks like words to us), the computer interprets them as binary so they can be read, manipulated, stored and retrieved. ASCII files are called text files
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