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Vaporware : software that is announced by a vendor but never actually reaches the market.
VDSL (Very-high-bit-rate Digital Subscriber Line): Type of high-speed network connection provided through ordinary telephone lines;very much like ordinary DSL (ADSL), but the communication rate is much faster, up to 51 Mbps at very short distances.
Vertical Market ASP: Application service provider that provides applications for a particular industry , such as for construction ,retail or healthcare.
Vidcast : Short for viedo podcast ; a podcast that contains viedo and audio ,also called vodcast.
Viedo : Full motion image that are played back at various speed.
Viedo Blog /Vlog: Blog that contains viedo clips.
Viedo Capture Card : Adapter card that converts an analog viedo signal to a digital signal that computer can process.
Viedo Card : adapter that converts computer output to viedo signals that travels through a cable to a monitor, which display an image on the screen.
Video Conferencing : Meeting between two or more geographically separated people who use a network or the Internet to transmit audio and viedo data.
Video Input : process of capturing full-motion images and storing them on a computer's storage medium.
Viiv Technology : Technology included with Intel's multi-core processors that improves performance of digital entertainment on a home computer.
Virtual memory : A portion of a storage medium, usually hard disk ,that the operating system allocates to function as additional RAM.
Virtual reality (VR) : Computers used to simulate a real or imagined environment that appears as a three-dimensional space.
Virus : Potentially damaging computer program that affects computer negatively by altering the way computer works without the user's knowledge or permission.
Virus Author : Programmers who intentionally writes a virus program.
Vlogger : Short for vlog author.
Vlogosphere : Term used to refer to all vlogs world wide.
Voice Verfication System : Biometric device that compares a person's live speech with his or her stored voice patterns to determine if the person is a legitimate user.
VoIP : technology that allows users to speak to other users over the Internet.
Volatile memory : Type of memory that loses its contents when a computer's power is turned off.
Volume Busniess ASP : Application service provider that supplies prepackaged applications, such as accounting , to businesses.
vPro Technology : Technology used by Intel's dual-core and Multi-core processors that provides the ability to track computer hardware , diagnose and resolve computer problems and secure computer from outside threats.
VR World : 3-D environment that contains infinite space and depth created with spcecial VR software.