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B2B: Business to Business, details ...
B2C: Business to Consumer, details ...
B4N: Bye For Now, details ...
Backup: A recovery system / To take a recoverable copy of files / A set of recoverable files, details ...
Backup Mail Server: A secondary email server to which emails are delivered should the primary email server be offline, details ...
BAC: Budget At Completion, details ...
BAFO: Best And Final Offer, details ...
Bandwidth: Maximum rate of data transfer, details ...
Bang: Exclamation mark, details ...
Barf: To vomit / To become broken, details ...
BASIC: Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, details ...
BBS: Bulletin Board System / Be Back Soon, details ...
BC: Before Christ, details ...
BCB: Borland C++ Builder, details ...
BCC: Blink Carbon Copy, details ...
BCD: Binary Coded Decimal / Boot Configuration Data, details ...
BCE: Before Common Era, Before Christian Era, details ...
BCP: Best Current Practice / Bridging Control Protocol / Bulk Copy Process / Business Continuity Plan, details ...
BDC: Backup Domain Controller, details ...
BDN: Borland Developer Network, details ...
BCWP: Budget Cost for Work Performed, details ...
BCWS: Budget Cost for Work Scheduled, details ...
Beep: Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol / Beep sound, details ...
BER: Bit Error Rate / Beyond Economic Repair, details ...
Bespoke: Custom development, details ...
BGP: Border Gateway Protocol, details ...
BHO: Browser Helper Object, details ...
BI: Business Intelligence, details ...
Biff: Binary Interchange File Format / To hit, details ......
Big-endian: High order byte first, details ...
BIN: Binary / Binary program folder / Logical container / Bank Identification Number, details ...
BIND: Berkley Internet Name Domain, details ...
BIOS: Basic Input/Output System, details ...
BIS: Business Information Systems, details ...
Bit: Binary digit, details ...
bit rate: Same as bits per second, details ...
BITS: Background Intelligent Transfer Service, details ...
BL: Black List / Boundary Layer / Back Link / Block List, details ...
Blackout: Total loss of power, details ...
Black List: List of disapproved items, details ...
Blacklist: List of disapproved items (such as people), details ...
Blit: Block bit transfer, details ...
BLOG: Open journal, details ...
Blogger: Someone who keeps a blog, details ...
Blogging: Updating a blog, details ...
Blue screen: Windows terminal error screen, details ...
Bluetooth: Standard for short range radio communication, details ...
BMP: Bit map image / Basic Multilingual Plane, details ...
BN: Brand New, details ...
BNF: Backus-Naur Form, details ...
BNG: British National Grid, details ...
BNIB: Brand New In Box, details ...
BOF: Beginning Of File, details ...
BNWT: Brand New With Tags, details ...
BOL: Books On Line, details ...
BOM: Bill of Materials / Byte Order Mark, details ...
BOOTP: Bootstrap Protocol, details ...
bot: Robot, details ...
BPL: Borland Package Library / Broadband over Power Lines, details ...
bpp: Bits Per Pixel, details ...
bps: Bits Per Second, details ...
Brownout: Voltage drop, details ...
BS: British Standard, details ...
BSSID: Basic Service Set Identification, details ...
BSOD: Blue Screen of Death, details ...
BST: British Summer Time, details ...
BTDT: Been There Done That, details ...
BTP: Business Transaction Protocol, details ...
BTU: British Thermal Unit, details ...
BTW: By The Way, details ...
Budget: A fiscal plan / low value, details ...
Buffer: Temporary storage area / An area around a feature, details ...
Buffer Zone: An area around a feature, details ...
Business Process Re-engineering: A sales slogan meaning to review how a business works, details ......
Byte: A logical collection of 8 bits and the basic unit of storage in computers, details ...