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A system invented by Netscape to allow a web server to send a web browser a packet of information that will be sent back by the browser each time it accesses the same server. Cookies can contain any cookiesarbitrary information the server chooses to put in them and are used to maintain state between HTTP transactions, which are otherwise stateless. Typically this is used to authenticate or identify a registered user of a website without requiring them to sign in again every time they access it. Other uses are, e.g. maintaining a "shopping basket" of goods you have selected to purchase during a session at a site, site personalisation (presenting different pages to different users) or tracking which pages a user has visited on a site, e.g. for marketing purposes.
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The New Generation of Web-Surfing

Baby BoomersIs age a factor when it comes to Internet use? Throw out your stereotypes about teens monopolizing the web, and find out how the Internet is making way for baby boomers. It may have been the case until recently that anyone over the age of 50 thought "surfing the web" was a term reserved for those with a board and a beach. Read more...

How Daylight Savings is Effecting Microsoft

ClockIn March, daylight-saving-time start- and end-dates for the United States and Canada will transition with the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005. Learn how you and your customers can acquire the scheduled updates for Microsoft Windows and other affected Microsoft applications, and when the updates will be available. Read More...





 

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