- Industry: Computer; Software
- Number of terms: 54848
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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.
Secure Sockets Layer. A protocol that provides secure communication over a TCP/IP connection. It uses digital certificates for authentication and digital signatures to ensure message integrity, and can use public key cryptography to ensure data privacy. An SSL service negotiates a secure session between two communicating endpoints. SSL is built into all major browsers and web servers. SSL has been superseded by TLS (Transport Layer Security).
Industry:Software; Computer
Uniform Resource Identifier. The web naming and addressing technology. A URI is a string of characters that identify a resource. Some typical URI schemes are HTTP and FTP.
Industry:Software; Computer
Uniform resource locator. A string, in a standard format, designating a file, web page, or other resource, typically (but not necessarily) to be accessed via the Internet. A URL is one type of URI. See also virtual address.
Industry:Software; Computer
A transmission path on which signals can be dropped off or picked up by devices attached to it. Only devices addressed by the signals pay attention to them; the others discard the signals. Buses exist both within the CPU and connect it to physical memory and peripheral devices. Examples of I/O buses on Darwin are PCI, SCSI, USB, and FireWire. For its meaning in Core Audio, see element.
Industry:Mining
Code Fragment Manager. The library manager and code loader for processes based on PEF (Preferred Executable Format) object files (in Carbon).
Industry:Software; Computer
Audio Interchange File Format. A digital audio file format developed by Apple, Inc., based on the Interchange File Format (IFF) developed by Electronic Arts, Inc. The audio data in an AIFF file is uncompressed, big-endian PCM and is stored in chunks. See also synchronous, linear PCM.
Industry:Software; Computer
A chunk-based digital audio file format originally developed for IBM-compatible PCs. Although WAV files can hold compressed audio data, they most commonly hold uncompressed linear PCM data. WAV is a variant of the RIFF bitstream format. See also RIFF.
Industry:Software; Computer
Application programming interface. A set of classes, protocols, methods, functions, and data structures that define the interface (calling convention) by which an application program accesses a service. This service may be provided by the operating system, by libraries, or by other parts of the application.
Industry:Software; Computer
Document type definition. A file that describes the structure of an XML document.
Industry:Software; Computer
