Webciety is a contraction of the words web and society. This means that the Internet today has a lot of influence on the economy, politics and society. The CeBIT 2009 pays special attention to this so-called ' Webciety ' for the first time. Go to the Cebit Youtube channel to see videos about webciety.

Kumo is a working name for the new version of Microsoft Live Search. Microsoft employees have received a memo on this. Kumo.com is available in the internal network and can be used to search. When Kumo will be accessible to the public is not yet known.

Meanwhile, this site has gone live under the name Bing.

Stock dividend is dividend paid in shares. An enterprise can proceed to this if it still has shares in reserve. In practice, the individual shareholder usually chooses how to receive the dividend.

Dividend is a part of the profit of a company that is paid to (among others) the shareholders. The primary purpose of an enterprise is to make profit for the owners/shareholders. Dividend is the main way in which this profit is paid. Paying dividends has a negative effect on the amount of cash available to the company. Companies strive for a stable or slightly increasing dividend amount. It is not unusual to still pay dividends from the reserves in the case of loss.

If the dividend is not paid in cash but also in shares, this is called stock dividend.

CMM stands for Capability Maturity Model and is a model that identifies the level of software development of an organization. The starting point is that we need to be constantly working on improving the development process. The CMM assumes that the execution of projects by an enterprise is at a certain stage of maturity, this is made clear by specifying in which of the 5 maturity levels the process is located. The five stages are:

1. Initial
2. Repeatable
3. Defined
4. Managed
5. Optimizing

FTE means full-time equivalent

FTE is a unit of account that can be used to express the magnitude of a function or the staff strength. A full working week is equal to 1 FTE. The number of hours of a work week is per employer different, for one employer it is 40 hours, for the other 36.

LNP means rural new portal

The LNP Foundation has as participants project developers, developing builders, housing corporations, investors, municipalities and the Industry Associations Neprom Award and NVB. More than 100 subscribers have now published the data of their new homes directly on Niki.nl, which means that about 70% of the new housing in the Netherlands is Niki.nl.

PSU comes from the computer world and is there the abbreviation for Power Supply Unit. So it is the power supply of a computer system. It converts the 220v mains voltage into the 12, 5 or 3 volt voltages with which the computer parts work. The power supply is connected to the main board, the hard drive, the DVD drives, video card, processor, ect. External devices (monitor, printer, scanner, etc.) usually do not receive power from the power supply, but they need power through a power outlet.

Also soldiers use the abbreviation PSU, in that case one is about a personal standard equipment.

IAD means Iterative Application Development

IAD is a softwareontwikkelmethode that sees users and designers as equal partners. IAD does this by dividing a project in small increments, and these parts are developed independently. Each separate part is a pilot, and the various pilots are joined together in the import of the entire project. Because they are all small parts, adjustments can be made quickly, and small part solutions are quickly seen.

A second possible meaning of IAD is: Internet Address detectors. These make it easy for users of MacOS8 to take action on the basis of Internet addresses in documents through An appearing Contextual Menu.