| 1. | D generation | The cohort of the population that has grown up with digital technology. They are presumed to have no inherent fear that technical developments will ruin rather than enhance heir lives. |
| 2. | P2P | Peer to peer. Usually refers to file sharing programs that allow two transmission of data across the Internet. |
| 3. | PDA | Personal Digital Assistant. In the beginning was the notebook, easily lost, hard to search and hard to update without causing chaos from scratchy pens and constant erasing or data. Next came the… 1.2 KB |
| 4. | WMD | Weapons of Mass Destruction. Talk of WMD s was all that filled the media in the run up to the Iraq war in 2003. It was a term used to cover everything from ballistic missiles, to their presumed… 0.3 KB |
| 5. | back, sack and crack | Made famous by David Beckham, this is a essentially removing the hair from the back, scrotum and bum cleft by waxing. Sounds utterly hideous and extremely painful! circa 2000, UK |
| 6. | bandwidth | The level of effort required to complete a project, or the time actually available for it. circa 2005 |
| 7. | best practice | Supposed to describe the most appropriate way that a company or individual can implement and carry out a range of tasks. In theory it should reflect the activities of successful companies, but… 0.4 KB |
| 8. | beta | Usually a pre-release version of a software programme; i,e, a version more complete and bug free than an alpha release, but not yet ready to be published. There are those who suggest that… 0.4 KB |
| 9. | bloatware | In the early days of computing, every byte a computer used had to be earned. Companies like Microsoft were able to produce entire operating systems on a single 360k floppy disk. Then came… 0.6 KB |
| 10. | blog | Shortened version of weblog . Originally the weblog was a form of online diary where people listed the things they did during the day. These were usually so boring they quickly expanded into a… 0.7 KB |
