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Bluetooth is an open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances (using short length radio waves) from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks (PANs) with high levels of security. Invented by telecoms vendor Ericsson in 1994, it was originally conceived as a wireless alternative to RS-232 data cables. It can connect several devices, overcoming problems of …

MySQL (pronounced ‘my-ess-cueel’) is an open source, true multiuser, multi-threaded relational database management system (RDBMS), that uses Structured Query Language (SQL). MySQL was developed by two Swedes and a Finn — David Axmark, Allan Larsson and Michael Widenius. It was written in C, C++, and was first released in 1995. Currently, MySQL has over 11 million installations. It’s fast and …

Multimedia Messaging Service, or MMS, is a standard way to send messages that include multimedia content to and from mobile phones. It extends the core SMS (Short Message Service) capability that allowed exchange of text messages only up to 160 characters in length. The most popular use is to send photographs from camera-equipped handsets, although it is also popular as …

A wiki is a web application that allows users to create and edit web page content using a web browser. The term wiki also refers to the collaborative software used to create such a website. Mediawiki is a wiki software package licensed under the GNU General Public License, making it free and open source software. This Mediawiki software is used …

Intexticated is a term given to those people, especially teenagers, who are addicted to texting and reading messages, especially when they drive. It is a take-off from the word intoxicated because of the similar connotation of driving and also being busy on the phone at the same time. A British study has found that intexticated drivers are worse than intoxicated …

It is used for browsing in stealth mode, for a situation when we don’t want our history to be tracked, like planning surprise gifts and holidays. Web pages that are opened and files downloaded while browsing incognito are not logged in the browsing and downloading histories of the browser. All new cookies are deleted after the incognito window is closed.

History sniffing is a term used to describe how websites snoop into visitor’s website history to trace the sites where they have been. A study released by researchers with the University of California, San Diego, showed that many websites were ‘sniffing’ the browsing history of visitors. Browsers display color codes indicating sites one has visited and those that have not …

Grid computing is a parallel processing architecture in which CPU resources are shared across a network, and all machines function as one large supercomputer. A well known example of grid computing in the public domain is the ongoing Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in which thousands of people share the unused processor cycles of their PCs in the vast search …

Email apnea is the stress caused by the inability to process emails and connect even as mails flood the inbox. It is marked by a suspension of breathing, shallow breathing or hyperventilating while checking mail. Researcher Linda Stone coined this term after realizing that many people go through this process every morning, the mind whirling from mail to mail, filing, …

Direct Market Access (DMA) is a facility which allows brokers to offer clients direct access to the exchange trading system through the brokers’ infrastructure without manual intervention by the broker. Some of the advantages offered by DMA are direct control of clients over orders, faster execution of client orders, reduced risk of errors associated with manual order entry, greater transparency, …