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HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) "Not to be confused with text on too much Starbucks."
Flash (Memory) "Easier to say than 'EEPROM chip with a thin oxide layer separating a floating gate and control gate utilizing Fowler-Nordheim electron tunneling."
God Particle "The Higgs boson, thought to account for mass, has eluded discovery since first postulated some thirty years ago."
Cloud Computing "Distributing or accessing programs and services across the Internet."
Plasma (as in plasma TV) "Refers less often to blood products."
iPOD "Apple maintains that the idea of the iPod was from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The origin of iPAD is a different story."
Megapixel "A really large pixel or a whole mess of pixels? Actually, one million pixels."
Nano A prefix meaning 10?9 [minus 9 is superscript -- 10 to the minus ninth power] "Used to describe anything small, nano- is ultimately derived from the ancient Greek word for 'dwarf.'"
Resonate "Not the tendency of a system to oscillate at maximum amplitude, but the ability to relate to a customer's desires."
Virtualization "Around since dinosaurs walked the planet (the late '70s) virtualization now applies to everything from infrastructures to I/O."
Solution "Ever popular yet still an amorphous description of high tech packages of hardware, software and service."
Cookies "Without their 'persistent state' management mechanism, the web as we know it, would cease to exist."
Robust "No one quite knows what it means, but it's good for your product to demonstrate robustness."
Emoticon "A smiley with an emotional component (from emotional icon)."
De-duping "Shorthand for de-duplication, that is, removing redundant data from a system."
Green-washing "Repositioning your product so shortfalls are environmental benefits. Not enough power? Reposition as 'energy-saving.'"
Buzzword Compliant "To include the latest buzzwords in literature about a product or service in order to make it 'resonate' with the customer."
Petaflop "A thousand trillion (or quadrillion) floating point operations per second. Often mistaken for a failed program by an animal rights' group."
Versioning "Creating revisions with fewer bugs and more features."
VoIP "Voice Over IP, shorthand for Voice over Internet Protocol, in plain English the ability to talk on the phone over the Internet."
Web 2.0 "Now there's talk of Web 3.0, just when we were finally getting used to the advanced web services called Web 2.0."
Most Confusing High Tech Acronym of the Decade: SOA "Solutions Oriented Architecture. If it's so easy to understand, why are hundreds of books written trying to explain exactly what it is?"
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