Cyber Glossary
Cyberlaw dictionary is an alphabetical reference guide to technical and legal terms related to the Internet. The site you are now browsing contains over 500 definitions of words drawn from Standard Internet English including technical terms and their meanings. Our aim is to explain basic technical jargon of cyberspace to those who are not familiar with its jargon. We've given preference to terms that are widely used, like modem or bandwidth, and to those that describe new concepts specific to the Internet experience such as phishing or sexting.
Software
information used by a computer and stored in one of several storage media. Software is the data that enables a user to produce meaningful work. Although the disk containing such data is considered hardware, the actual data, being intangible, is termed software. Software is synonymous with the term application, which refers to a program that actually produces results for a user such as a spreadsheet or word processing program. System software refers to an operating system such as Windows or Linux. The terms application, utility, and program are often used to describe software.
