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Online storage that enables users to upload, store, and access their files via the Internet
Cloud storage
Programs that people use to get their work done.
Application programs
Store your contacts, which makes it easy to correspond and share contact information with others
Address book
The use of computer technology to plan, design, test, and alter products.
Computer-aided design (CAD)
The practical application of science to society and industry
Technology
A set of coordinated network of components, which act together towards producing, distributing and/or processing information
Information systems
A computer system that is part of a larger machine and which controls how that machine operates
Embedded system
An equation that makes calculations based on the data in your spreadsheet
Formula
The use of computer software to control machines, tools, and processes involved in manufacturing products
Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM)
Working from home or a remote location
Telecommunicating
An integration of computer with telecommunication equipment for retrieving, manipulating, and storage of data
Information technology
Keyboards, mouse, scanners, cameras, joysticks, and microphones; a piece of equipment used to provide data and control signals to an information processing system
Input devices
Requests for data that match a set of criteria
Queries
Computer software designed to mimic the knowledge of a human expert
Expert system
Technology that allows users to make telephone calls over the Internet
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
Handling information, especially facts. Converting facts and figures into useful information.
Data processing
Connected to main memory, stored data are easily changed, but changes are slow compared to main memory, and used for long-term storage of programs and data
Secondary memory
Designed to create databases and to store, manage, search, and extract the information contained within them
Database Software
Technology that allows users to communicate over the Internet rather than through traditional public networks
Internet telephony
A mobile phone with advanced capabilities, such as accessing the Internet
Smartphone
The process of transferring data between storage types, formats, or computer systems
Data migration
Contain billions of transistors; responsible for the fundamental computing within the system, and directly or indirectly controls all the other components.
Processor
Software programs that allow you to view webpages, such as Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, or Google Chrome
Browsers
Programs that instruct computers to perform specific operations
Software
An object placed into orbit by humans; most are used for communications purposes
Satellite