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needs.Rick
Merritt,
Ubiquitous computing: slow
going, Elec-tronic Engineering
Times, March 31, 2003.
click-wrap (noun): A license or
contract that appears during the
setup of a software program or
online service and that requires
the user to click a button to agree
to the terms of the license.
Sometimes a contract is a
mouse click away-all of the free email services and commercial ISPs
use click-wrap contracts, which
[...] require users to agree to conditions before using a service.
[...].Anita Susan Brenner, Contractual Obligations Click here to
waive your rights, Smart Business, September 2000.
invisible Web (noun): The collection of searchable Web sites
whose content exists within databases and so cannot be indexed
by search engines.
While the aforementioned
Internet search resources are
essential for on the Internet
searching, they do not and cannot
find and make all that is on the
Internet accessible...This
hidden information is often
called the Invisible Web. Gary
Price, Myths for Today, Hopes
for Tomorrow, Searcher,
January 1, 2000.
rejecter (noun): A person who
rejects or limits their interaction
with technology.
But in a scary finding for ecommerce boosters, a fast-growing number of occasional online
users are rejecters, abandoning
the Internet in droves. Earlier this
year, 29 million U.S. adults
stopped using the Net. Thats
nearly double the number of
those who had dropped out by
1998.-Edward Iwata, Techs