Grade 12 - ICT Reviewer

Identity Theft

Happens when a criminal impersonates a user by stealing his or her personal information to withdraw money or pay goods online.

Personalization

Personal and individual preferences of the user is considered during information processing, search and information of personal portal on the web.

Virus

Program that replicates itself and attaches other program. It can execute only with the helps of human. Ex. Attachments of document in the email.

Worm

Program that replicates itself and slows down the computer performance. It can execute without human's help. Ex. Sharing documents through USB.

Dynamic

Refers to the affected user input or preference.

Messaging Convergence

Refers to the grouping of services that integrates SMS with voice. Ex. Voice SMS, Spin Vox, IVR, mms, and many more. This convergence is mainly helpful for call centers, media companies, broadcasters. Some operators have launched services that combines SMS with mobile instant messaging.

Dynamic Page

Refers to the web pages that are affected by user input or preference.

Long Tail

Services are offered on demand rather than on a one-time purchase. This is synonymous to subscribing to a data plan that charges you for the amount of time you spent on internet or Data plan.

User Participation

Site users add content for others to see (Crowdsourcing, recommendation, and video casting)

Pharming

Technique used to redirect a legitimate website's traffic to an illegitimate website in order to gain access to a user's personal information.

Computer Technology

The design and construction of computers to better help people at school, business, and at home, etc.

Internet

The global system of interconnected computer networks that use protocol suite to link billions of devices world wide. Means of connecting a computer to any other computer anywhere in the world via dedicated routers and servers. Its sometimes called simply "Net".

Technological Convergence

The synergy of technological advancements to work on a similar goal or task. The tendency for different technological systems to evolve towards performing similar task.

Web 3.0: Beyond the Semantic Web

The third generation web. It is a way for people to be more connected. You are able to connect to the internet where ever you are. It also can be like a personal assistant because it retrieves information for you and it offers suggestions that you may not have thought about yourself. A concept of the World Wide Web that is designed to cater to the individual user (key term)

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The verb converge was coined. Usage of the word convergence in the 20th century has become broader and primarily stated with the emergence of computers.

Spam

Unwanted email mostly from bots or advertisers. It can be used to send malware.

Hashtag #

Used to categorize posts in websites.

Copyright Infringement

Violation of copyright.

Web

Was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.

Communication Technology

When a computer requires multimedia content from a remote computer or a server, this information travels through computer networking using some communication technology.

Browser Hijacking

Happens when malware or spyware replaces a web browser homepage that redirects the user to unwanted websites while capturing sensitive private data for personal business gain.

World Wide Web (WWW)

A large part of the internet.

Malware

A malicious software that is intended to damage or disable computer systems which has codes to collect information without one's knowledge. (Viruses, Trojan horse, Worms)

Copyright

A part of the law, wherein you have the rights to your work, and anyone who uses it without your consent is punishable by law.

Net

A worldwide system of the computer network.

Folksonomy

Allows users to categorize and classify/arrange information.

Static

Also known as flat page or stationary page. Refers to the web that are the same regardless of the user.

ICT Industry

In 2010, it shares 19.3% of the total employment population in the Philippines.

User As A Contributor

Information flows two ways; between site owner and site user by means of evaluation, review, and commenting.

Convergence

Interlinking of computing and information technologies, media content and communication networks with various activities, products and service that have emerged in digital media space.

Web 2.0: The Read/Write/Execute Web

Introduced in 2004 as a second generation of the www that is focused on how information is shared among people. Allows the user to interact with the page known as Dynamic Page; instead of just reading a page, the user may be able to comment or create a user account. Websites that contain dynamic content (key definition)

Tim Berners-Lee

Invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN.

Interoperability

Application on Web 3.0 are easy to customize and can independently work on different kinds of devices.

Intellegence

Application on web 3.0 is incorporated with different artificial intelligence tools and techniques which means that it can directly do intelligence analysis with possible finest output even without much human intervention.

BPO

Business Process Outsourcing

ICT (Information Communications Technologies)

Deals with the use of different communication technologies such as mobile phones, telephone, internet, etc. to locate, save , send, and edit information.

Content Convergence

Defined as the portability of content can be mixed and matched to fit new contents. Generates new possibilities and focuses on consumer satisfaction.

Rich User Experience

Dynamic content; responsive to user input.

Web 1.0: The Read Only Web

Early stage of the conceptual evolution of the World Wide Web. It is like external editing, where the content is prepared by the webmaster and users are simply acting as consumers of the content. Static websites without interactivity (key definition)

Media Convergence

Is basically the convergence of several media channels through digitization. It brings the 3Cs together. With the increase of different media channels, we have stepped into a world where media constantly surrounds us.

Virtualization

It was high end of three-dimensional graphics to create a 3d environment for 3D web applications.

Phishing

Its goal is to acquire sensitive personal information like passwords and credit cards details. This is done by sending you an email that will direct the user to visit a website and be asked to update his/her username, password, credit card, or personal information.

Digital Convergence

Mainly driven by Telecommunication, IT, Internet, Media, and entertainment industries. It based on digital technologies and digitalized content. Refers to the convergence of various types of data i.e text, voice, video, graphics, into digital form.

Trojan Horse

Malicious program that is disguised as a useful program but once downloaded or installed, leaves your PC unprotected and allows hackers to get your information. Ex. Installing programs downloaded from the internet.

Content Technology

Multimedia content means the mixing of different media (text, sound, video etc, on the same screen like computers, televisions, etc.) in an interactive mode.

Philippines

dubbed as the "ICT hub of Asia"