Operating systems perform basic tasks, such as recognizing input from the keyboard, sending output to the display screen, keeping track of files and directories on the disk, and controlling peripheral devices such as disk drives and printers. A state regulatory agency responsible for regulating investor-owned utilities, common carriers, and grain warehouses and dealers. The PUC is authorized by the legislature to regulate a wide range of business activity including trucking, busing, grain elevators, natural gas, electricity, and telephone utilities. A type of memory chip that does not lose information, even when the power is turned off. Once data is programmed into the ROM chip, its contents cannot be altered.
Telecommunications includes all aspects of transmitting information.
The Act promotes competition and reduce regulation in order to secure lower prices and higher quality services for American telecommunications consumers and encourage the rapid deployment of new telecommunications technologies. Telemedicine Use of telecommunications for medical diagnosis, patient care, and health education. Username A name used to gain access to a computer system. Usernames, and often passwords, are required in multi-user systems. In most such systems, users can choose their own usernames and passwords.