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What is disruptive technology? – Definition from WhatIs.com
A disruptive technology is one that displaces an established technology and shakes up the industry or a ground-breaking product that creates a completely new industry. Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen coined the term disruptive technology. In his 1997 best-selling book, “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” Christensen separates new technology […]
What is Web site? – Definition from WhatIs.com
This definition is also listed under presence, site and Website. A Web site is a related collection of World Wide Web (WWW) files that includes a beginning file called a home page. A company or an individual tells you how to get to their Web site by giving you the […]
What is computer? – Definition from WhatIs.com
A computer is a device that accepts information (in the form of digitalized data) and manipulates it for some result based on a program, software, or sequence of instructions on how the data is to be processed. Complex computers include the means for storing data (including the program, which is also a form of data) for […]