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Portable flash media for content distribution is the distribution of media on removable flash memory devices, such as flash cards and USB drives. The media can be promotional or full-length and often refer to music, movies, TV episodes, video game software, maps, electronic books (e-books) and other consumer content. The memory employed is based on reprogrammable NAND flash memory—not to be confused with one-time programmable memory, such as mask ROM or 3D memory, which is often used in storing gaming software content.
Industry:Technology
Polymer memory refers to memory technologies based on the use of organic polymers. Some of these technologies use changes in the resistance of conducting polymers under read/write control. Other architectures are based on ferroelectric polymers. The properties of polymer memory are low-cost and high-performance, and have the potential for 3D stacking and mechanical flexibility. Variants can be write-once or multiple-write. Printed versions of this technology already exist and are used in low-density applications such as toys.
Industry:Technology
A mistake-proofing device or procedure to prevent a defect during order intake or manufacturing.
Industry:Technology
Describes a circuit that connects two points directly, where there are generally no intermediate processing nodes, although there could be switching facilities. See multipoint.
Industry:Technology
A type of health maintenance organization (HMO) plan that offers limited coverage for care received outside the HMO’s network.
Industry:Technology
POS systems use personal computers or specialized terminals in combination with cash registers, optical scanners or magnetic-stripe readers to capture and record data at the time of transaction. POS systems are usually online to a central computer for credit checking and inventory updating. Alternatively, they may be independent systems that store daily transactions until they can be transmitted to the central system for processing.
Industry:Technology
1. Since divestiture, the physical access location within a local access and transportation area (LATA) of a long-distance and/or interLATA common carrier.
2. The point to which the local telephone company terminates subscribers’ circuits for long-distance, dial-up, or leased-line communications.
3. An Internet provider’s node that allows subscribers to dial in using modems and voice lines.
Industry:Technology
Podcasting started out as radiolike broadcasts of spoken word content, ranging from individual recorded essays or free-form rants to more conventional talk-show-like formats across a varied set of themes. Podcasts _ video or audio _ are delivered via RSS. They can be consumed on any device that supports audio playback, ranging from smartphones to tablets and portable music players, such as the Apple iPod.
Industry:Technology
Audio (or audio and video) content specifically designed for synchronizing and playback on mobile audio players, such as Apple’s iPod and MP3 playback-enabled mobile phones. Much of this content is highly topical, derived from radio or TV broadcasts, and it is often free. Podcasts are an example of “sticky” content: listeners are encouraged to subscribe to a podcast “channel” that typically is updated with new content daily or weekly. See also mobisode.
Industry:Technology
Software that can run on a variety of hardware platforms or software architectures. Platform-independent software can be used in many different environments, requiring less planning and translation across an enterprise. For example, the Java programming language was designed to run on multiple types of hardware and multiple operating systems. If Java platform-independence becomes a reality, organizations with multiple types of computers will be able to write a specialized application once and have it be used by virtually everyone, rather than having to write, distribute and maintain multiple versions of the same program.
Industry:Technology
