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Kbps   (KiloBits Per Second) A measure of speed of information flow, usually over a modem. A Kilobit is a thousand bits. See also bps, Mbps. Killer App   (Killer application) A program that is so obviously massively useful to someone that they will rush out and buy it immediately, and a computer to run it on. Kilobyte   Unit of measurement for pieces of information : actually 1024 Bytes (characters), but in practice almost always rounded down to 1000. Often written as just K, eg 250 K is 250 Kilobytes (250,000 bytes/characters - well not exactly, but close enough). See also Megabyte, Gigabyte. Back to top