Technology Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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Bangalored adj. An online anti-outsourcing website is marketing a T-shirt with the legend “Don’t Get Bangalored,” a term suggesting losing one’s job to outsourcing. [English India United States Technology] [full cite] (Jul. 23, 2004)

Bangalored adj. CPQ UK’s order management stuff (which I *think* covers Europe) *was* in the process of being Bangalored. [English Technology] [full cite] (Jul. 25, 2004)

Bangalored adj. I am a software developer who is about to be “Bangalored.” [English Business Technology] [full cite] (Jul. 25, 2004)

banyan model n. He proposes that work groups whose members are widely dispersed but need to have high levels of coordination—say, a computer security team protecting a global bank—do not have to assemble everyone in one room to reap the same benefit. Instead, he suggests a “banyan model,” after the Asian tree that puts down roots from its branches. [English Online Technology Jargon] [full cite] (Oct. 6, 2007)

barcode n. Several years ago researchers created probes consisting of nanoscale bars of metal actually etched with conventional bar codes. Since then, most molecular tagging devices have been referred to as “barcodes,” even though there are no bars involved. [English Science Technology] [full cite] (Jun. 14, 2005)

bare metal n. Other products, such as Xen and VMware’s ESX Server, run in a hypervisor that sits beneath the guest operating systems and the hardware. Because the software layer sits on the “bare metal,” these are sometimes referred to as hardware VMs. Direct contact with the system hardware allows the VMs to work more efficiently. [English Technology] [full cite] (Apr. 25, 2005)

beachfront property n. It is referred to as the last beachfront property in the wireless world—a prized swath of spectrum that is about to be sold at federal auction. And it has touched off an intense lobbying effort pitting cellular companies against a variety of new players interested in the potential of a next-generation mobile Internet. [English Technology Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 17, 2007)

BEAR n. A remote-controlled robot that will rescue injured or abducted soldiers, without putting the lives of their comrades at risk, is being developed for the US army. The 1.8-metre-tall Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot (Bear) will be able to travel over bumpy terrain and squeeze through doorways while carrying an injured soldier in its arms. [English Military Technology Acronym] [full cite] (Nov. 2, 2007)

bed bug n. At night, when the residents aren’t wearing their badges, they can still be monitored. Sensors attached to the bed sound an alarm if they get up. It’s fondly called the bed bug. [English Technology] [full cite] (Jul. 29, 2006)

Big Mother n. Advocates of parental spying say kids’ use of technology requires parents to keep up with gadgets of their own. Critics, however, have coined a term for the trend. Instead of Big Brother, they call such surveillance “Big Mother.” And what, they ask, ever happened to trust? [English Technology] [full cite] (Jul. 31, 2006)

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