- Industry: Computer; Software
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Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers.
A measurement of the speed at which data is sent over transmission lines. A bit is the smallest unit of information on a computer.
Industry:Entertainment
A rate of data transfer, not to be confused with bits per second (bps). A byte is a number of bits that are usually treated as a unit.
Industry:Entertainment
Memory that temporarily stores data to help compensate for differences in the transfer rate of data from one device to another.
Industry:Entertainment
The process of writing a DVD, CD-R, or CD-RW. CD and DVD writers are sometimes called burners.
Industry:Entertainment
For a PC to receive or copy data (in this case, audio and video) from another device (VCR, digital video camera, stereo, microphone, etc.).
Industry:Entertainment
A computer hardware device for receiving digital audio or video from a digital camcorder or camera.
Industry:Entertainment
A laser-encoded storage media for digital data. A variety of formats are available for audio, video, and computer files.
Industry:Entertainment
A CD-R can store data as well as digital audio files. But information can only be recorded once; the disc cannot be burned with additional data and cannot be recorded over.
Industry:Entertainment
You can write, rewrite, and erase more than a thousand times on this medium. The data on CD-RW discs is only readable by CD-RW drives; sometimes computers need the identical software that was used to create a disc in order to read it.
Industry:Entertainment
A feature in the iTunes Music Store in which celebrities compile songs into a playlist and describe the inspirations for their choices.
Industry:Entertainment