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Geek speak for breaking subject or item down into small component pieces
A financial services company that specialize in obtaining authorizations for credit card purchases. An intermediary between the customer’s credit card company and your e-business’s merchant account, the payment processor receives requests for credit from the customer’s transaction and verifies htat the customer’s credit card account approves such transactions so that your e-business’s credit card merchant account can then received the funds.
Portable Document Format. A document format ( like Microsoft Word or Word Perfect ) that allow you to create documents that preserve their formatting regardless of the user’s system configuration and that cannot be readily modified by the recipient. Created by Adobe Systems, PDFs are widely used for e-books and other documents that are distributed online when their authors do not want them modified.
A fraudulent activity characterized by sending out email that pretend to be from a financial institution or other trusted account provider in hopes of tricking recipients into clicking on links in the email or visiting fraudulent website to disclose valuable personal information
The smallest unit of display on a computer monitor. Each very small dot of light and color on your PC screen is one pixel.
The digital distribution of recordings, usually via the internet. To create a podcast, a radio show or similar audio program is recorded and then offered for distribution on a web page so that interested listeners can download it to their PCs or mobile media players for listening later, after the show has concluded its normal broadcast time.
A site’s back links are the links that point back to it. These are typically from other sites, although back links can be differentiated into internal and external back links to distinguish between those in or without the site.
Word of mouth is the person-to-person passing of information, especially recommendations, in an informal manner, rather than by mass media, advertising, organized publication, or traditional marketing.
Word of mouth is typically considered a spoken communication, although Web dialogue, such as blogs, message boards, and e-mails, is now included in the definition.
A collaborative online environment that allows readers to add content to a subject. Typical wiki uses include encyclopedias, product documentation, and help systems. While not directly related to blogs, the concept of social interaction is strong in wikis, as well. Companies who embrace blogs often eventually begin using wikis for internal projects.