12 Useful IT Terms

RSS stands for Rich Site Summary. It is a family of web feed formats to publish frequently updated works such as news headlines,blog entries,audio and video in a standardized format.








MP3 stands MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3.It is a format to store audio data in a compressed form.








TeamViewer is a proprietary computer software package for remote control,desktop sharing,online meetings,web conferencing and file transfer between computers.It is possible to access a machine running TeamViewer with a web browser.





In software development, a product or a technology "Beta Release" is still in development but is released in the market for testing and evaluation purpose.









Skydrive is a free online storage facility offered by Microsoft.It allows users to upload and sync.files to a cloud storage and then access them from a web browser.It offers 7GB of storage for new users and 25GB of free storage for those who signed up to Skydrive prior to April 22,2012.







Global Positioning System (GPS) is a space-based global navigation satellite system that provides reliable location, and time imformation anywhere on the earth. It is freely accessible by anyone with a GPS receiver.






POP-UPS are extra browser windows of commercials that open automatically on browsing web pages.






Android OS is a Linux based OS designed primarily for touch screen mobile devices such as Smart phones and Tablet computers initially developed by Android Inc. whom Google financially backed and later purchased.











An Internet Service Provider (ISP) is a company that gives you access to the Internet for free.The browser will not be able to display web pages unless the computer is connected to an ISP.






Cloud Computing is a technology that uses Internet based computing where different services such as servers, storage and applications are delivered to an organization's computers and devices through Internet.It uses a pay-per-use billing model. It involves renting the computing resources instead of buying them.




WhatsApp messenger is a cross-platform mobile messaging application which allows you to exchange unlimited images, video and audio media messages free of cost.It is available for iphone, Blackberry,Android windows Phone and Nokia.

Moodle(Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment) is a free source e-learning software platform that educators can use to create effective online learning courses.

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