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• Microsoft-Also “MS” The largest vendor of personal computer software applications and operating systems.

• Memory Stick-A flash memory card type from Sony. They resemble a stick of chewing gum and vary in size.

• Mouse-A hand-held device for moving the cursor or pointer on the screen. Movements of the mouse produce analogous movements of the pointer.

• Mash Up-In technology, a mashup is a web application that combines data from more than one source into a single integrated tool;

• Meta Tags-Information placed in the HTML header of a Web page, providing information that is not visible to browsers

• Mirror-A mirror in computing is a direct copy of a data set. On the Internet, a mirror site is an exact copy of another Internet site

• Media File-These are the image, audio, video and text files - “Media Files” or Media. These files (.gif, .wav, .mpg, .txt, etc.) are also known as Assets.

• Monitor-A monitor is an approach to synchronizing two or more computer tasks that use a shared resource, usually a hardware device or a set of variables.

• Media Player-The media player is the software on the client computer that decompresses the streaming video or audio using a codec and plays it back on the computer screen

• Melbourne IT-Melbourne IT is an Australian internet company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Formed in 1996, its primary business is domain name

• Megabyte-approximately one million bytes, 1,024 kilobytes

• Motherboard-The main printed circuit board in a computer that carries the system buses. It is equipped with sockets to which all processors, memory modules