- Industry: Consulting
- Number of terms: 1807
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This segment includes PC services and workstation services.
Personal computer services — PCs are single-user systems and include desk-based, notebook and ultraportable PCs. This also includes workstations which are single-user systems based on high-end Intel or reduced instruction set computer (RISC) CPU architectures with high-performance graphics, OSs and system architecture.
Industry:Technology
A type of computing appliance that provides end-user access to applications. Examples include network computers and certain handheld computers. See computing appliance.
Industry:Technology
A system or a program that requests the activity of one or more other systems or programs, called servers, to accomplish specific tasks. In a client/server environment, the workstation is usually the client.
Industry:Technology
The number of times a Web page advertisement is clicked, compared to the number of times it is displayed. Royalties are often based on CTR. This term is also used in reference a website’s ability to persuade a visitor to “click through” to another site.
Industry:Technology
Term applied to the act of clicking with a mouse button on a Web page advertisement, which brings the user to the advertiser’s site.
Industry:Technology
A form of Web analytics (see separate entry), clickstream analysis is the tracking and analysis of visits to websites. Although there are other ways to collect this data, clickstream analysis typically uses the Web server log files to monitor and measure website activity. This analysis can be used to report user behavior on a specific website, such as routing, stickiness (a user’s tendency to remain at the website), where users come from and where they go from the site. It can also be used for more aggregate measurements, such as the number of hits (visits), page views, and unique and repeat visitors, which are of value in understanding how the website operates from a technical, user experience and business perspective.
Industry:Technology
The combining of e-business channels and network-based processes with selective investment in physical locations to control local markets, distribution channels, and critical labor accessibility.
Industry:Technology
A control circuit that indicates to the data terminal equipment that data can or cannot be transmitted.
Industry:Technology
Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) is the successor to class-oriented domains for Internet routing, it allows for better allocations of Internet addresses. It combines a number of Class C Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to reduce the burden on routing tables in the Internet.
Industry:Technology
Class-based queuing (CBQ) is a mechanism that defines various levels of service for access to the Internet and can be used with or without Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP). CBQ divides traffic into queues and assigns each a specific amount of network bandwidth.
Industry:Technology
