General
Technology that uses radio waves to allow wireless communication between computers.
What is Wi-fi?
One who gains (or seeks to gain) unauthorized access to computer data.
What is a hacker?
Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.
What is social media?
A computer storage device for data that uses rapidly rotating platters inside a sealed casing.
What is a hard drive?
An internet journal or diary on a mainly legal topic.
What is a blawg?
Combines text with charts, graphs, pictures, video, clip art, and sound in order to communicate data more effectively.
What are presentation graphics?
Examples include email, instant messages, text messages, voice-mail, social media posts, spreadsheet, webpages, digital video, and other digital data.
The physical equipment of a computer system vs. a computer program that tells or instructs the hardware what to do.
What is the difference between Hardware and Software?
Allows computer users on a network to work together, e.g., to share documents and work on the same information.
What is groupware?
A company that provides access to the Internet, usually for a monthly fee.
Internet Service Provider (ISP)
(1) A computer program that provides resources or services to other computers. (2) A system that manages resources on a network. (3) A computer that processes requests.
What is a server?
A small text file that a website inserts on your computer when you visit the site with your browser, giving the site information about your browsing visit.
What is a cookie?
The part of the internet where users can (a) obtain and update programs (b) read, store, and manage data.
Using software to convert sensitive data into unreadable code that can only be decoded with software by the intended recipient.
What is encryption?
A paper or computer system designed to provide reminders of important dates.
What is a tickler?
A private network of computers for the sharing of data, software, and services within the organization using features similar to those of the world wide web.
What is intranet?
Software that seeks to disable, disrupt, or otherwise damage computers.
What is malware?
A multi-user system linking computers that are in close proximity to each other so they can share data and resources V. A multiuser system linking computers over a large geographical area so that they can share data and resources.
What is the difference between Local Area Network (LAN) v. Wide Area Network (WAN)?
The hardware of the computer that contains the processor chip that controls all the computer parts.
What is a central processing unit?
A method of notifying subscribers of new content on an internet site by feeding notice of the new content to subscribers.
What is really simple syndication?
A collection of appellate briefs and related documents drafted in prior cases that might be adapted for current cases and used as models
What is a brief bank?
The discovery by a party in litigation of an opponent's data generated by or stored in a computer or other digital device. The discovery of electronically stored information.
What is e-discovery?
A file format consisting of an electronic image of a document that existed before it was converted into a digital document.
What is a portable document format (PDF)?
A productivity program for capturing and reusing the knowledge and work product of a law office. A system of linking into the knowledge base of a law office embodied in the documents generated by all of the cases it has handled so that it can better meet the needs of current and prospective clients.
What is knowledge management?
A notice that a legal dispute has occurred and that information pertinent to the dispute must be preserved by the person or organization in possession or custody of such information. The failure to do so may result in sanctions for spoilation.
What is litigation hold?