Basement Area Network: A small local-area network installed in a home to link several household PCs.
Collapsible Corporations: Companies that reside in electronic networks rather than physical buildings, allowing them greater flexibility to change in size and configuration as market conditions dictate.
Dog-Collar Labor: Management jargon for punky artist types hired to add hip cachet to multimedia companies.
Patent Stump: Nickname for the crate of hard-copy scientific data that must be printed out and sent to patent lawyers when seeking a biotech patent.
Spamouflage: Bulk email messages delivered from generic email addresses with innocuous subject headers in order to confound filtering programs and spam-hating readers.
Tip o' the space helmet to Simon Buckingham, Steven Connelly, Alan Davidson, and Jim Lowe.
