BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: CD
- certificate of deposit
Wiktionary Definition for: CD
- compact disk: A form of digital media that is based on the use of a laser to read from a plastic disc in a reader device known as a CD drive. It comes in several varieties including the CD-ROM (ROM=read-only memory) which cannot be written to except during manufacturing, the CD-R (recordable), which can be written to exactly once, and the CD-RW (re-writable), which can be written to as many times as one wishes (to a limit).
- Certificate of deposit: used by financial institutions
- Corps diplomatique: a decal found on automobiles to indicate diplomatic status
- Creative director: head of the creative department (e.g. advertising agencies)
- Corporate design: specific design features of a company, corporate identity CI
- Collision detection: used by an Ethernet network to detect when two computers are sending frames at the same time, and also to deal with such collisions when they happen
- circular dichroism
- #English CD (disc)
Additional Resources
- CD Ladder Calculator
- Use this tool to examine the benefits of investing in a series of Certificates of Deposits with different maturities, also called a CD Ladder. With a CD Ladder, you can benefit from higher interest rates for longer maturities, while achieving better liquidity, rather than investing in a single long-term CD.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- CD ROM Business Cards - Offline Marketing for Online Promotion
- Anyone can get online and find a dozen CD replicating firms pretty quickly. What a person really wants to find is a professional consultant that can assist him or her in putting it all together, making it all work, and keeping it interesting. This presentation is what will make the...
- White papers 2004-12-07
- CD Celebrates 25th Birthday
- CD Celebrates 25th BirthdayCD SalesThe drop in CD sales has little to do with the actual medium. Since the ubiquitous availability of files in MP3 format from online sources, legal or illegal, the CD players have been twigged to play CD's full of MP3 music. But where is the CD...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-21
- Don't Get Caught!: The Perils of Producing Materials for CD Replication at Home
- The recent surge in the use of free-ware, shareware and semi-professional software packages for mastering and design has raised several areas of concern for CD duplication houses and their clients. Projects on a limited budget are relying on home-produced materials - often with disastrous consequences. CD launch dates are missed...
- White papers 2002-12-09
- Music Distribution in the Internet
- The paper highlights that in order to understand the present and future of the music industry in the Internet, it is very important to focus first on the situation the music industry is right now in the "real world". The standard used to carry the music is the CD, a...
- White papers 2002-04-30
- The Effect of Internet Piracy on CD Sales- Cross-Section Evidence
- This paper analyzes the role of music downloading on the current downturn in CD sales. It provides 2000-2001 cross-country evidence in support of the claim of losses due to internet piracy made by the music industry. For the U.S. it also assesses the potential loss from internet piracy using detailed...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- The Effect of Internet Piracy on CD Sales: Cross-Section Evidence
- This paper analyzes the role of music downloading on the current downturn in CD sales. It provides 2000-2001 cross-country evidence in support of the claim of losses due to internet piracy made by the music industry. For the U.S. it also assesses the potential loss from internet piracy using detailed...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- iPod & iTunes Hacks: Clean Up Your ID3 Tags
- When one inserts a CD to be ripped in iTunes, it looks up the album information on the CD Database CDDB. All of the information about the CD magically appears in iTunes, which is very handy - except when the CDDB labels as Alternative music that one would classify as...
- Book chapters 2004-09-21
- Risk Sharing and the Distribution of Copyright Collective Income
- Copyright collectives are groups of individual copyright holders who join together in order to save on the important transactions costs that exist in the market for their individual rights. The objective of this paper is to analyze the risk sharing benefits that copyright collectives can offer, but currently do not....
- White papers 2003-05-23
- Relative Value of Investments
- This White Paper looks into the Relative Value of Investment and its general and special theories. It specifically explains the difference in the after tax return of a taxable certificate of deposit CD and a tax-free municipal bond. The paper also addresses the potential harms of semiannual CD derby and...
- White papers 2003-01-03
- Training Presentation: PowerPoint 2003 - Package To A CD
- This template contains PowerPoint 2003 training content about how to bundle your presentation and all the files it depends on to a CD or folder. This content is geared for a corporate trainer to present to a group.
- Tools & templates
- CD Celebrates 25th Birthday
- 25 years ago on Friday the first CD rolled out of a Philips factory near Hanover, Germany. If you're already feeling nostalgic for the preferred album format of the 1990s, or if you're interested in what this story of innovation and decline can teach you as a manager, we bring...
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- CD Switch Analysis
- This template is for CD switch analysis.
- Tools & templates 1997-03-01
- The Changing Face of Music Delivery: The Effects of Digital Technologies on the Music Industry
- The changes that are occurring in the way that music is consumed are of particular pertinence to anyone examining the effects of digital technologies upon Canadian society. Two of the major distribution channels under discussion have serious challenges in their business models. The traditional CD distribution model is under pressure...
- White papers 2004-03-31
- Recover Data from Damaged Discs with CD Recovery Toolbox
- It always amazes me how indestructable CDs and DVDs aren't. The slightest scratch or scuff can render one unreadable, which can pose a fairly major problem if it contains important data. CD Recovery Toolbox, a free utility, offers at least the possibility of recovering files from damaged discs. After performing...
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- Certificates Of Deposit: Tips For Investors
- Investors searching for relatively low-risk investments that can easily be converted into cash often turn to certificates of deposit CDs. A CD is a special type of deposit account with a bank or thrift institution that typically offers a higher rate of interest than a regular savings account. The article...
- White papers 2003-08-05
- Songs For The Road CD Case Inserts
- This is a template for songs for the road CD case inserts.
- Tools & templates 2007-12-01
- Holiday Music CD Case Inserts
- This is a template for holiday music CD case inserts.
- Tools & templates 2001-09-26
- CD Case Insert (Workout Design)
- This is a template for CD case insert with workout design.
- Tools & templates 2001-05-18
- Data Back-Up CD Case Inserts
- This is a template for data back-up CD case inserts.
- Tools & templates 2001-05-15
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