| E-commerce |
E-commerce (electronic-commerce) refers to business over the Internet. Web sites such as Amazon.com, Buy.com, and eBay... |
| E-mail Bankruptcy |
In this day and age, most of us receive several e-mails a day. Depending on your job, you may even receive dozens of... |
| ECC |
Stands for "Error Correction Code." ECC is used to verify data transmissions by locating and correcting transmission... |
| EDI |
Stands for "Electronic Data Interchange." EDI is a standardized method for transferring data between different... |
| Edutainment |
Edutainment is one of those combo words, like "guesstimate," that combines two regular words into one term that really... |
| EIDE |
EIDE is short for "Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics" and is an improved version of the IDE drive controller... |
| Email |
It's hard to remember what our lives were like without e-mail. Ranking up there with the Web as one of the most useful... |
| Emoji |
An emoji is a small image that can be inserted into text like a regular character. Emojis started to gain widespread... |
| Emoticon |
These are the little text-based faces and objects that you often see in e-mail and online chat. They help give the... |
| Emulation |
The term "emulation" comes from the verb "emulate," which means to imitate or reproduce. Therefore, computer emulation... |
| Encryption |
Encryption is the coding or scrambling of information so that it can only be decoded and read by someone who has the... |
| End User |
An end user is the person that a software program or hardware device is designed for. The term is based on the idea... |
| EPS |
Stands for "Encapsulated PostScript." EPS is a PostScript image file format that is compatible with PostScript... |
| Ethernet |
Just to be clear, the first syllable is pronounced "eath" as in "Heath Bar," not like "eth" as in Bethany. Some people... |
| EUP |
Stands for "Enterprise Unified Process." EUP is a software development methodology that helps companies create... |
| Exabyte |
An exabyte is 2 to the 60th power, or 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes.
It can be estimated as 10 to the 18th power... |
| Exbibyte |
A exbibyte is a unit of data storage that equals 2 to the 60th power, or 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes.
While a... |
| Excel |
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program for Windows and Macintosh computers. It is part of the Microsoft Office... |
| Expansion Card |
An expansion card is a printed circuit board that can be installed in a computer to add functionality to it. For... |
| External Hard Drive |
Nearly all personal computers come with an internal hard drive. This drive stores the computer's operating system... |
| Extranet |
If you know the difference between the Internet and an intranet, you have an above average understanding of computer... |
