virtual phone number

It is a telephone number without an associated phone line. Usually these numbers are programmed to be forwarded to either a Voice over IP service, or to a different phone line, fixed or mobile.

WED 28 MAY 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary

Virtual PC

Microsoft Virtual PC is a virtualization suite for Microsoft Windows operating systems, and an emulation suite for Mac OS X on PowerPC-based systems.

TUE 27 MAY 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary

virtual network computing

In computing, Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a graphical desktop sharing system which uses the RFB protocol to remotely control another computer

MON 26 MAY 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary

virtual microscopy

It is a method of posting microscope images on, and transmitting them over, computer networks

FRI 23 MAY 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary

virtual machine

It was originally defined by Popek and Goldberg as an efficient, isolated duplicate of a real machine. Current use includes virtual machines which have no direct correspondence to any real hardware.

WED 21 MAY 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary

virtual desktop manager

A virtual desktop is a term used, usually within the WIMP paradigm, to describe ways in which a computer's desktop environment is expanded through the use of software

FRI 16 MAY 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary

virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)

In computing, Desktop Virtualization involves separating the physical location where the PC desktop resides from where the user is accessing the PC

THU 15 MAY 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary

virtual community

A virtual community, e-community or online community is a group of people that primarily interact via communication media such as letters, telephone, email or Usenet rather than face to face, for social, professional, educational or other purposes

TUE 13 MAY 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary

virtual circuit

In telecommunications and computer networks, a virtual circuit (VC), synonymous to virtual connection and virtual channel, is a connection oriented communication service that is delivered by means of packet mode communication

MON 12 MAY 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary

Virtual reality (VR)

It is a technology which allows a user to interact with a computer-simulated environment, be it a real or imagined one

WED 07 MAY 2008 |Featured in: Techtionary