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In computing, booting is the process of starting a computer as initiated via hardware such as a button on the computer or by a software command. After...

Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) is a family of wireless broadband communication standards based on the IEEE 802.16 set of standards...

Look up caret in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Caret is the name used familiarly for the character ^ (the circumflex and a circumflex accent) provided...

The Pentium II brand refers to Intel's sixth-generation microarchitecture ("P6") and x86-compatible microprocessors introduced on May 7, 1997. Containing...

Windows Vista, an operating system released by Microsoft for consumers on January 30, 2007, has been widely criticized by reviewers and users. Due to issues...

Memory protection is a way to control memory access rights on a computer, and is a part of most modern instruction set architectures and operating systems...

MAME (formerly an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a free and open-source emulator designed to recreate the hardware of arcade games, video...

Computer display standards are a combination of aspect ratio, display size, display resolution, color depth, and refresh rate. They are associated with...

Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) is a W3C recommendation designed for representation of thesauri, classification schemes, taxonomies, subject-heading...

In computing, an applet is any small application that performs one specific task that runs within the scope of a dedicated widget engine or a larger program...

Adobe Shockwave Player (formerly Macromedia Shockwave Player, and also known as Shockwave for Director) was a freeware software plug-in for viewing multimedia...

Product life-cycle management (PLM) is the succession of strategies by business management as a product goes through its life-cycle. The conditions in...

Soundbooth was a digital audio editor by Adobe Systems Incorporated for Windows XP, Windows Vista, 7 and Mac OS X. Adobe has described it as being "in...

ReadyBoost (codenamed EMD) is a disk caching software component developed by Microsoft for Windows Vista and included in later versions of Windows. ReadyBoost...

Speakeasy was a numerical computing interactive environment also featuring an interpreted programming language. It was initially developed for internal...

Milw0rm is a group of hacktivists best known for penetrating the computers of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai, the primary nuclear research...

Samuel J Leffler is a computer scientist, known for his extensive work on BSD, from the 1980s to FreeBSD in the present day.  Among other projects, he...

TorChat was a peer-to-peer anonymous instant messenger that used Tor onion services as its underlying network. It provided cryptographically secure text...

Printer Command Language, more commonly referred to as PCL, is a page description language (PDL) developed by Hewlett-Packard as a printer protocol and...

StarTeam is a version control system used in software development, especially when a project involves multiple teams in different locations. StarTeam is...