- Industria: Computer; Software
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Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer, Inc., is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers.
The DRM (digital rights management) system built into Apple’s QuickTime technology and used by the iPod music player, the iTunes music application, and the iTunes store. These systems use FairPlay to encrypt some AAC files to restrict their playback to authorized devices.
Industry:Software; Computer
Spectral Bandwidth Replication. A technique used in AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) encoding (among other encoding technologies) to improve perceived audio quality.
Industry:Software; Computer
The data structure in which Launch Services records information about available applications and the kinds of documents or URLs they are capable of opening.
Industry:Software; Computer
A variable that is available anywhere in the script in which it is defined.
Industry:Software; Computer
An authentication method based on a secret known to only the two parties involved. Verification of passwords is a commonly used shared secret authentication method.
Industry:Software; Computer
In the I/O Kit, a collection of software abstractions that are common to all devices of a particular category. Families provide functionality and services to drivers. Examples of families include protocol families (such as SCSI, USB, and Firewire), storage families (disk drives), network families, and families that describe human interface devices (mouse and keyboard).
Industry:Software; Computer
A programming paradigm in which values are operated upon individually. Scalar programming is more common than vector code.
Industry:Software; Computer
In WebObjects, a field in an enterprise object that meets two criteria: It’s based on an attribute in your model, and it can be fetched from the database. Class property can refer either to an attribute or to a relationship.
Industry:Software; Computer
The fine adjustment of glyph positions at the ends of lines to give a more even visual appearance to margins.
Industry:Software; Computer
An operator that derives a new value from a pair of values.
Industry:Software; Computer
