• Jargon Buster
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ARC iT Solutions - Jargon Buster - E

Our A-Z will help you understand the IT terms that are now being used every day in the modern day world

The Jargon Buster explains technical and computing terms with which you might not be familiar.

E-Commerce - the buying and selling of good and services over the internet.

E-mail - electronic mail. Messages ( sometimes with attachments ) sent over the internet from one e-mail address to another.

Emoticon - faces made up of text. e.g. winking ;-) or smiling :-) can be used to say "don't take that last comment seriously".

Encryption - encoding used to stop people opening your private information when it is sent over the internet.

Error message - a 'complaint' by the computer that something has gone wrong. There will often be some type of jargon heavy explanation, maybe including an 'error code'.

Executables - a file containing a program, for example, files that end in the file extension '.exe' . These files have rights to access important parts of your computer in order to run.

Extranet - a company website that employees and business partners can access from inside and outside the company. It is not available to the general public.

EZine - electronic magazine. Magazines on the web or sent by e-mail.

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