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Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright...

This generational list of Intel processors attempts to present all of Intel's processors from the 4-bit 4004 (1971) to the present high-end offerings....

This is a list of TCP and UDP port numbers used by protocols for operation of network applications. The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the User...

Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code...

Symbian was a mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform designed for smartphones. It was originally developed as a proprietary software OS for...

JScript is Microsoft's legacy dialect of the ECMAScript standard that is used in Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser. JScript is implemented as an...

The actor model in computer science is a mathematical model of concurrent computation that treats an actor as the basic building block of concurrent computation...

Nortel Networks Corporation (Nortel), formerly Northern Telecom Limited, was a Canadian multinational telecommunications and data networking equipment...

Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a series of audio codecs and their corresponding audio coding formats developed by Microsoft. It is a proprietary technology...

Phreaking is a slang term coined to describe the activity of a culture of people who study, experiment with, or explore telecommunication systems, such...

IPv4 address exhaustion is the depletion of the pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses. Because the original Internet architecture had fewer than 4.3 billion...

In the context of hardware and software systems, formal verification is the act of proving or disproving the correctness of a system with respect to a...

Arrow keys or cursor movement keys are keys on a computer keyboard that are either programmed or designated to move the cursor in a specified direction...

The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is a development model created in 1986 after a study of data collected from organizations that contracted with the...

In computer science, a compiler-compiler or compiler generator is a programming tool that creates a parser, interpreter, or compiler from some form of...

The 3D ACIS Modeler (ACIS) is a geometric modeling kernel developed by Spatial Corporation (formerly Spatial Technology), part of Dassault Systemes. ACIS...

This article compares two programming languages: C# with Java. While the focus of this article is mainly the languages and their features, such a comparison...

In the relational model of databases, a primary key is a designated attribute (column) that can reliably identify and distinguish between each individual...

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

Peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) systems like Gnutella, KaZaA, and eDonkey/eMule, have become extremely popular in recent years, with the estimated user...