Computer and Information Technology (Physics) Part-VII

'Project Loon' is a research and development project being developed by Google X with the mission of providing internet access to rural and remote areas. The project uses high altitude balloons placed in the stratosphere at an altitude of about 18 km to create an aerial wireless network.

The web portal DACNET (dacnet.nic.in) is related to e-Agriculture. It is an e-governance portal of the Department of Agriculture, Cooperation and Farmers Welfare, which is being implemented by the National Informatics Centre for the convenience of agriculture data and informations online.

IBM (International Business Machine) is an American multinational corporation which is related to information technology.

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. Http is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web.

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is used for accessing Word Wide Web.

HTML. stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.

XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language. XML is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting. and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.

URL stands for uniform resource locator. Every web page has a definite and different address. The address is known as uniform resource locator or in short URL.

FTP is a short form for File Transfer Protocol, the protocol for exchanging files over the Internet.

SMPS stands for Switched-Mode-Power-Supply. In a modern computer, there is a SMPS that takes rectified AC input, perform power factor correction and then converts the output into low voltage DC required by the computer