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- 3G Third-generation wireless
- Near-future broad bandwidth, high speed developments in personal
and business wireless technology, especially mobile communications.
- EMS
- A new standard in the SMS environment, this stands for Enhanced
Messaging Service. It offers the ability to send a combination
of tunes, sounds, modified text, and standard text as a combined
message which can be received on EMS compliant handsets.
- Gateway
- A network point that acts as an entrance to another network.
- GPRS (General Packet Radio Service)
- A wireless communication service that promises fast data rates
and continuous connection to the Internet for mobile phone and
computer users.The term 2.5G is sometimes used for GPRS.
- GSM (Global System for Mobile communication)
- A digital mobile telephone system that is widely used in Europe
and other parts of the world.
- HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol)
- The World Wide Web application protocol that runs on top of
the Internet’s protocols.
- Internet
- The Internet, sometimes called simply “the Net”,
is a worldwide system of computer networks - a network of networks
in which users at any one computer can, if they have permission,
get information from any other computer (and sometimes talk
directly to users at other computers).
- Intranet
- An intranet is a private network that is contained within an
organisation that uses computers.
- MMS
- Multimedia Message Service, is a standard which is associated
with 3G, as the name indicates it will offer users the ability
to send and receive a whole variety of services.This will consist
of text, sounds, video, and or a combination of the different
services.
- MSMQ (Microsoft Message Queuing)
- A message queuing communications technology that enables applications
on different systems to communicate with each other, even if
systems and networks occasionally fail. MSMQ does this by enabling
applications to communicate with each other through messages.
MSMQ guarantees delivery of messages despite network and application
failures.
- MTS (Microsoft Transaction Server)
- A system which manages software security, connection to other
servers, and transaction integrity.
- Network
- A network is a series of points or nodes interconnected by
communication paths.
- Node
- In a network, a node is a connection point - either a redistribution
point or an end point for data transmissions.
- Operating system
- An operating system is the program that, after being initially
loaded into the computer, manages all the other programs in
a computer. The other programs are called applications.
- OTA (Over The Air)
- The ability to send special types of SMS message containing
features that can enhance a mobile phone (such as new ringtones,
operator logos and group graphics).
- Protocol
- A protocol is the special set of rules that end points in
a telecommunication connection use when they communicate.
- Reverse Billing
- Used to send permission-based messages to a user who is charged
to receive the message, e.g. lottery results, news, weather
and other information services.
- SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
- A way for a program running in one kind of operating system
to communicate with a progam in the same or another kind of
operating system by using the World Wide Web’s Hypertext
Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and its Extensible Markup Language
(XML) as the mechanisms for information exchange.
- SMS (Short Message Service)
- A service for sending messages of up to 160 characters to
mobile phones that use Global System for Mobile (GSM) communication.
- UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications
System)
- Another name for 3G.
- VPN (Virtual Private Network)
- A private data network that makes use of the public telecommunication
infrastructure.
- Web Service
- An Internet hosted application controlled through SOAP requests
which returns results as SOAP responses.
- Wireless
- The term wireless refers to telecommunication in which electromagnetic
waves (rather than some form of wire) carry the signal over
part or all of the communication path.
- World Wide Web
- All the resources and users on the Internet that are using
the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
- XML (eXtensible Markup Language)
- A flexible way to create common information formats and share
both the format and the data on the World Wide Web, intranets,
and elsewhere.
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