With regards to e-mail, incoming e-mail is received by the ISP and then stored in a mailbox on a computer, which is known as a POP server. When you connect to your ISP and run your e-mail program, your messages are downloaded from the POP server to a mailbox on your computer. ... Usually ISP's will provide there customers with the address to their SMTP server. In some cases, the SMTP server address is the same address that is used for the POP server. ... They own, operate, and maintain the servers that run the particular application. ...

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The purpose of this research paper is to identify some of the potential benefits for those banks who have loan officers that use some type of information technology to aid in the their analysis and decision making abilities. The article will give the reader some insight of why there is a need to use information technology for their loan analysis and what type of problems could occur if some type of information system tool is not utilized. The article will also outline what type of systems could be deployed ranging from a system that is fairly simplistic to one that has several functions. ...

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In 1993 worldwide illegal copying of domestic and international software cost $12.5 billion to the software industry, with a loss of $2.2 billion in the United States alone. Estimates show that over 40 percent of U.S. software company revenues are generated overseas, yet nearly 85 percent of the software industry's piracy losses occurred outside of the United States borders. The Software Publishers Association indicated that approximately 35 percent of the business software in the United States was obtained illegally, which 30 percent of the piracy occurs in corporate sett...

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Node licenses are also slowly being phased out because they are mainly used in a client/server environment, since the licensed software may be used only on a specified workstation in which a user must log on to in order to access and execute the software application. ...

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