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| x AOL |
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Company |
In 2006, AOL shifted its strategy to build on these strengths,
making its popular e-mail and AOL software, along with other services,
available free to anyone with an Internet connection. AOL continues to
move forward on this strategy in 2007, with...
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| x MSN |
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Website |
MSN (The Microsoft Network) is a collection of Internet services provided by Microsoft. The Microsoft Network debuted as an online service and Internet service provider on August 24, 1995, to coincide with the release of the Windows 95 operating...
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| x Linden Lab |
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Venture Funded Company |
Linden Lab was founded in 1999 by Philip Rosedale to create a revolutionary new form of shared experience, where individuals jointly inhabit a 3D landscape and build the world around them. Today this experience, known as Second...
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| x Simple Mail Transfer Protocol | Internet Protocol |
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a de facto standard for electronic mail (e-mail) transmissions across the Internet. Formally SMTP was first defined in RFC 821 (STD 10) as amended by RFC 1123 (STD 3) chapter 5. The protocol in widespread use...
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| x SAML |
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Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) is an XML-based standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between security domains, that is, between an identity provider (a producer of assertions) and a service provider (a consumer of...
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| x Secure Shell |
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Internet Protocol |
Secure Shell or SSH is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices.
Used primarily on Linux and Unix based systems to access shell accounts, SSH was designed as a replacement for TELNET...
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| x SSH file transfer protocol | Internet Protocol |
In computing, the SSH File Transfer Protocol (sometimes called Secure File Transfer Protocol or SFTP) is a network protocol that provides file transfer and manipulation functionality over any reliable data stream. It is typically used with version...
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| x Concurrent Versions System | Software Genre |
In the field of software development, the Concurrent Versions System (CVS), also known as the Concurrent Versioning System, provides a version control system based on open-source code. Version control system software keeps track of all work and all...
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| x BitTorrent client | Software Genre |
A BitTorrent client is a program that manages torrent downloads and uploads using the BitTorrent protocol.
The first client, known as BitTorrent, was created by Bram Cohen, in October of 2002. Cohen created the client based on what he refers to as...
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| x BitTorrent |
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Book Subject |
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used to distribute large amounts of data. The initial distributor of the complete file or collection acts as the first seed. Each peer who downloads the data also uploads them to other peers....
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| P2P Protocol | |||
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| x SCORM |
Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is a collection of standards and specifications for web-based e-learning. It defines communications between client side content and a host system called the run-time environment (commonly a function of...
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| x Content package |
A content package is a file containing content and metadata.
A content package is used in e-learning to define some learning content or an assessment that can be delivered, for example by a Learning Management System. It's a standard way of...
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| x QTI |
As computers are increasingly used for storing and delivering online tests and exams, it's important to have an exchange language that questions and assessments can be described in, so that if you author a question in one system and want to deliver...
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| x ELML |
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Software |
The eLesson Markup Language (eLML) is an open source XML framework for creating eLessons using XML. It is a "spin-off" from the GITTA project , a Swiss GIS eLearning project, and was launched in spring 2004. The eLML project is hosted at...
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| x IMS Global |
IMS Global Learning Consortium (usually known as IMS or IMS GLC) is a global, nonprofit, member organization that strives to enable the growth and impact of learning technology in the education and corporate learning sectors worldwide. IMS GLC...
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| x Freebase |
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Website |
Freebase.com is home to a global knowledge base: a structured, searchable, writeable and editable database built by a community of contributors, and open to everyone. It could be described as a data commons. Freebase.com is enabled by the...
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| x Yahoo Messenger | Software | ||
| x ICQ |
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Internet Protocol |
ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, which was first developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis, now owned by Time Warner's AOL subsidiary. The first version of the program was released in November 1996 and ICQ became the first Internet...
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| x Gadu-Gadu |
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Internet Protocol |
Gadu-Gadu (Polish for "chit-chat"; commonly known as GG or gg) is a Polish instant messaging protocol associated with an official client. Gadu-Gadu is the most popular IM service in Poland, with over 7.8 million registered accounts and approximately...
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| x Jabber | Internet Protocol |
Jabber is a collection of open, XML-based protocols for instant messaging and presence information. Jabber-based software is deployed on thousands of servers across the Internet and is used by over ten million people worldwide, according to the...
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| x SILC |
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Protocol |
SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing protocol) is a protocol that provides secure synchronous conferencing services over the Internet.
The SILC protocol can be divided in three main parts: SILC Key Exchange (SKE) protocol, SILC Authentication...
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| x Internet Relay Chat |
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Internet Protocol |
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet chat or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message, as well as...
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| x Novell GroupWise |
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GroupWise is a cross-platform collaborative software product from Novell, Inc. offering e-mail, calendaring, instant messaging and document management.
GroupWise can operate on a number of server and workstation platforms. Server platforms include...
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| x MySpaceIM |
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Software |
MySpaceIM is the official instant messaging client for the social networking site, MySpace.
MySpaceIM integrates several features into the IM. Currently these are the features included:
MySpaceIM uses a proprietary text-based protocol developed by...
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| x Network Time Protocol |
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Internet Protocol |
The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a protocol for distributing the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) by means of synchronizing the clocks of computer systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data networks. NTP uses UDP port 123 as its transport...
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| x Border Gateway Protocol |
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Internet Protocol |
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the core routing protocol of the Internet. It works by maintaining a table of IP networks or 'prefixes' which designate network reachability among autonomous systems (AS). It is described as a path vector...
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| x FastTrack |
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Internet Protocol |
FastTrack is a peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol, used by the Kazaa (and variants, Grokster and iMesh) file sharing programs. The file sharing application Morpheus originally used this network, but was later banished from it because of licensing disputes....
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| x Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol | Protocol |
Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is an open, XML-inspired protocol originally aimed at near-real-time, extensible instant messaging (IM) and presence information (a.k.a. buddy lists), but now expanded into the broader realm of...
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| x WebDAV | Internet Protocol |
Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning, or WebDAV, is a set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote World Wide Web servers. The group of developers...
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| x XML-RPC |
XML-RPC is a remote procedure call protocol which uses XML to encode its calls and HTTP as a transport mechanism.
XML-RPC is a very simple protocol, defining only a handful of data types and commands, and the entire description can be printed on...
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| x Internet Message Access Protocol |
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Internet Protocol |
The Internet Message Access Protocol or IMAP is one of the two most prevalent Internet standard protocols for e-mail retrieval, the other being POP3. Virtually all modern e-mail clients and servers support both protocols as a means of transferring e...
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| x World Wide Web |
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Computer Game Platform |
The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a Web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between...
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| x Apple Inc |
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Company |
Apple Inc., (NASDAQ: AAPL) formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing consumer electronics and software products. The company's best-known hardware products include the...
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| Computer Manufacturer/Brand | |||
| Programming Language Designer | |||
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| x Web Services Description Language | File Format |
The Web Services Description Language (WSDL, pronounced 'wiz-dəl' or spelled out, 'W-S-D-L') is an XML-based language that provides a model for describing Web services.
The current version of the specification is 2.0; version 1.1 has not been...
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| x Universal Description Discovery and Integration | Internet Protocol |
Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) is a platform-independent, XML-based registry for businesses worldwide to list themselves on the Internet. UDDI is an open industry initiative, sponsored by OASIS, enabling businesses to...
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| x Internet protocol suite |
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Internet Protocol |
The Internet Protocol Suite (commonly TCP/IP) is the set of communications protocols used for the Internet and other similar networks. It is named from two of the most important protocols in it: the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the...
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| x SOAP | Protocol |
SOAP (see below for name and origins) is a protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over computer networks, normally using HTTP/HTTPS. SOAP forms the foundation layer of the web services protocol stack providing a basic messaging framework upon...
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