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  • 1Application virtualization — is an umbrella term that describes software technologies that improve portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed. A fully virtualized… …

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  • 2Application Enhancer — (APE) is a software program released by Unsanity for Apple s Mac OS X operating system. Application Enhancer provides a framework that allows third party developers to write haxies for OS X. It also provides a daemon to load haxies when certain… …

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  • 3Application performance management — Application Performance Management, or APM, refers to the discipline within systems management that focuses on monitoring and managing the performance and service availability of software applications.APM can be defined as process and use of… …

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  • 4Application sharing — is an element of remote access, falling under the collaborative software umbrella, that enables two or more users to access a shared application or document from their respective computers simultaneously in real time. Generally, the shared… …

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  • 5Computers and Information Systems — ▪ 2009 Introduction Smartphone: The New Computer.       The market for the smartphone in reality a handheld computer for Web browsing, e mail, music, and video that was integrated with a cellular telephone continued to grow in 2008. According to… …

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  • 6Application software — OpenOffice.org Writer word processor. OpenOffice.org is a popular example of open source application software …

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  • 7application — ap|pli|ca|tion W1S1 [ˌæplıˈkeıʃən] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(written request)¦ 2¦(practical use)¦ 3¦(computers)¦ 4¦(paint/liquid)¦ 5¦(effort)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Date: 1400 1500; : Latin; Origin: applicatio, from applicare; APPLY] 1.) …

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  • 8Application checkpointing — Checkpointing is a technique for inserting fault tolerance into computing systems. It basically consists of storing a snapshot of the current application state, and later on, use it for restarting the execution in case of failure. Contents 1… …

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  • 9application — noun 1 written request ADJECTIVE ▪ formal, written ▪ successful ▪ I am pleased to tell you that your application for the position has been successful. ▪ unsuccessful ▪ …

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  • 10application — noun 1 WRITTEN REQUEST (C, U) a formal, usually written, request for something such as a job, place at university, or permission to do something: Developers have filed a planning application. (+ for): There were more than 300 applications for the …

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