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Mobile computing ;

’’Mobile computing refers to the use of Small and portable computing devices in Wireless enabled

networks That provide Wireless connections’’



1. Palmtop: A small computer that literally fits in your palm. Compared to full-size computers.

2. PAN: PAN is short for Personal Area Network. Based on the electric-field transmission medium, is an IBM technology that allows individuals to exchange data with a simple touch or grasp, such as a handshake.

3. Pocket PC: , Pocket PCs usually offer smaller versions of Microsoft applications such as Word and Outlook.

4.Portable: portable means small and lightweight. A portable computer is a computer small enough to carry.

5.Real Time Locating System: Real Time Locating System is a fully automated Wi-Fi-based tracking system .



6. COR: Short for central outdoor router, the central router in a multi-device WLAN. The device is typically placed in a geographic central location and communicates with up 32 remote locations.

7. Mango: Mango is the first major update for Microsoft Windows Phone 7. Mango, or Windows Phone 7.5, adds more than 500 new features for smartphones

8. Memory Effect: The memory effect is very rare in computer nickel-cadmium (NiCad) batteries, especially modern ones.

9. Ku band: satellite communications, Ku band is the frequency range from 10.5 to 17 GHz.

10. NOOK: The Nook devices include built-in Wi-Fi capabilities for downloading books and Web browsing.



11. iPhone App: A software application developed for use on Apple's iOS-powered iPhone devices.

12. iTunes U: Part of Apple's education initiative.

13. ZigBee : ZigBee is a low data rate, two-way standard for home automation and data networks.

14. Mobile IP: A standard that allows users with mobile devices whose IP addresses are associated with one network to stay connected when moving to a network with a different IP address.

15. Mosquito: A type of cellphone virus that became known in 2004. Mosquito was distributed as a part of a downloadable game.



16.Waveguide: A circular, elliptical or rectangular metal tube or pipe through which electromagnetic waves are propagated in microwave.

17.Wi-Fi: Wi-Fi is the name of a popular wireless networking technology that uses radio waves to provide wireless high-speed Internet and network connections.

18.Wi-Fi5: the Wi-Fi Alliance to refer to wireless LAN products based on the IEEE 802.11a specification that operates in the 5GHz radio frequency band.

19.World Roaming: A GSM technology that allows some digital mobile phones to be used in different parts of the world.

20.iPhone: The Apple iPhone combines mobile phone capabilities with a wireless Internet device and an iPod into one product.



21.Gateway: the gateway node often acts as a proxy server and a firewall. The gateway is also associated with both a router.

22.Google Glass :Google's project program for developing a line of hands-free, head-mounted intelligent devices that can be worn by users as "wearable computing" eyewear.

23.Touchscreen: A type of electronic display that senses physical touch by a person’s hands or fingers

24.Hotspot: A specific geographic location in which an access point provides public wireless broadband network services to mobile visitors through a WLAN.

25.Web clipping: Web clipping is to conserve the PDA's resources by extracting once any static data, such as graphics, logos, photos.



26.Eye-Fi: An Eye-Fi card works just like a regular SD Card (Secure Digital Card) in that it stores your pictures on the card,

27.FaceTime: video chat service somewhat similar to Skype and Google Hangouts

28.Fixed wireless: Fixed wireless refers to wireless devices or systems that are situated in fixed locations ,such as cell phones.

29.Flight mode: Flight mode is a feature in many mobile phones and PDAs that allows you to use basic operations of the device while the transmitting function is switched off.

30.Galaxy Gear: A wearable computing smart watch device developed by Samsung that functions similar to a smartphone



31.EDGE: Enhanced Data GSM Environment. EDGE is a faster version of GSM wireless service. EDGE enables data to be delivered at rates up to 384 Kbps on a broadband.

32.Electromagnetic spectrum: Electromagnetic spectrum refers to the complete range of wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation like radio, microwaves, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, X-rays and gamma-rays.

33.EMI: electromagnetic interference, a naturally occurring phenomena when the electromagnetic field of one device disrupts, impedes or degrades the electromagnetic field of another device by coming into proximity with it.

34.ExpressCard: ExpressCard enables you to add memory, wired and wireless communications, multimedia and security features by inserting ExpressCard modules into compliant systems.



35.EAP: Short for Extensible Authentication Protocol, an extension to PPP. EAP is a general protocol for authentication that also supports multiple authentication methods, such as token cards

36.E911: Enhanced 911, a location technology, that will enable mobile, or cellular, phones to process 911 emergency calls and enable emergency services to locate the geographic position of the caller.

37. Earth station: The earth station itself is usually an antenna that includes a low-noise amplifier, a down-converter, as well as an electronics receiver. The antenna itself can vary in size from at little at 3 to 30 meters,

38.Echo: In satellite communications, an echo refers to an unwanted refection of a signal to its originator.



39.Digital home: the term digital home refers to a home network of CE, mobile and PC devices that cooperate transparently

40.DoCoMo: DoCoMo ("anywhere") is a Japan's biggest mobile service provider, with over 31 million subscribers as of June, 2000.

41.DoCoMo's i-mode: DoCoMo's i-mode is the only network in the world that now allows subscribers continuous access to the Internet via mobile telephone.

42.Dual-mode Device: In mobile computing, a dual-mode device is one that offers voice and data connectivity to both Wi-Fi and cellular communications within in a single device.

43.Duty Cycle: In print and copy terminology, duty cycle refers to the number of copies or prints that the device can reliably produce on a monthly basis.



44.Coverage area: The geographical area in which a wireless network company offers cellular service for their own mobile phone subscribers. Also called a service area.

45.Crackberries: The term is derived from the words crack and Blackberry, meaning that using a BlackBerry device can be as addictive to some users as drugs (crack) are to others.

46.Crossover cable: crossover cable is used for Ethernet connections, where the CTS (clear to send) and RTS (ready to send) lines are crossed over.

47.DataPad: A DataPad is a small keyboard designed to work with a PDA and similar handheld devices.

48.DashPC: A Linux software platform that delivers multimedia including DVDs, MP3s, CDs, Radio.



49.Communications satellite: Communications satellites are commonly used for mobile phone signals, weather tracking, or broadcasting television programs. Communications satellites are artificial satellites that relay receive signals from an earth station and then retransmits the signal to other earth stations

50.CompactFlash: a CompactFlash card, a very small removable mass storage device that relies on flash memory technology, a storage technology that does not require a battery to retain data indefinitely. CompactFlash cards can support 3.3V and 5V

51.Comsat: COMSAT is Short for Communications Satellite Corporation, it cannot sell satellite circuits directly to customers, but only to wholesale communications carriers for resale



52. JFS : Stands for "Journaled File System." JFS is a 64-bit file system created by IBM.

53. Keystroke :keystroke is typing one character on a keyboard, Every time you hit a key, you perform a keystroke.

54. Kilohertz : One kilohertz (abbreviated: kHz) is equal to 1,000 hertz. Like hertz, kilohertz is used to measure frequency, or cycles per second.

55. LAN : A LAN is a computer network limited to a small area such as an office building, university, or even a residential home.

56. Local host :"Localhost" refers to the local computer that a program is running on.



57.Megapixel :A megapixel is one million pixels. It is commonly used to describe the resolution of digital cameras.

58.Memory Bank: A memory bank is a designated section of computer memory used for storing data. Much like financial bank.

59. MIDI :Stands for "Musical Instrument Digital Interface." It is a connectivity standard that musicians use to hook together musical instruments.

60. MIPS : Stands for "Million Instructions Per Second."

61. Monochrome : monochrome" typically refers to a two-tone image, rather than one with several shades of a single color.



62.Newbie: A new user of a technology, such as a computer, a certain computer program, or the Internet, is often referred to as a "newbie." 63. NTFS :Stands for "New Technology File System." NTFS is a file system introduced by Microsoft with Windows .

64. NUI: Stands for "Natural User Interface." An NUI is a type of user interface that is designed to feel as natural as possible to the user.

65. OASIS : OASIS is a non-profit, global consortium that supports the development and adoption of e-business standards.

66. OEM: Stands for "Original Equipment Manufacturer." This refers to a company that produces hardware to be marketed under another company's brand name.



67.Truncate: To truncate something is to shorten it, or cut part of it off.

68. Thread: The threads of a computer program allow the program to execute sequential actions or many actions at once.

69. Virtual memory: Virtual memory increases the available memory your computer has by enlarging the "address space," or places in memory where data can be stored.

70. Wild card: In computing, a wildcard refers to a character that can be substituted for zero or more characters in a string.

71.Remote user: a remote user is someone who works on a computer from a remote location.

72. RJ45: RJ45 is a type of connector commonly used for Ethernet networking.



73. Half-duplex : it is a type of communication is between two devices, but not simultaneously .

74. HDTV : Stands for "High Definition Televsion."replaces older formats of SDTV.

75. Hertz : Hertz (abbreviated: Hz) is the standard unit of measurement used for measuring frequency.

76. Hibernate : Windows computer offer an option that combines the benefits of sleep mode and powering down the computer, called "Hibernate.“

77. IEEE : This is a non-profit organization that develops, defines, and reviews electronics and computer science standards.



78. Gigahertz : It is used measure computer processing speeds.

79. GIGO : Stands for "Garbage In, Garbage Out.“

80. GPS : Stands for "Global Positioning System." GPS is a satellite navigation system used to determine ground position.

81. Encryption : Encryption is the coding or scrambling of information so that it can only be decoded and read by someone who has the correct decoding key.

82. End user : An end user is the person that a software program or hardware device is designed for.

83. FAQ : Stands for "Frequently Asked Questions," .



84.Cellphone virus: A cellphone virus is the equivalent to a computer virus, only it infects consumer cellphones and spreads by way of MMS attachments, Bluetooth transfers, and Internet downloads. The first known cellphone virus was called Cabir and was detected in June 2004 by Kaspersky Labs. The Cabir worm was coded to infect Symbian OS cellphones

85.Chromebook: Chromebook is a new category of notebook computers and mobile devices that runs Google’s cloud-based Chrome OS operating system

86.Chiclet keyboard: A chiclet keyboard's keys are rectangular in shape with rounded edges as compared to the slanted-edge keys featured in traditional keyboards.



87.Collocation: Collocation refers to the placement of multiple satellites near each other in orbit to use a single fixed receiving antenna to receive signals from all the satellites.

88.BT-USB: Short for BlueTooth Universal Serial Bus. It is a wireless USB adapter designed specifically to plug into any available Universal Serial Bus (USB) port connecting to a desktop or laptop PC

89.CardBus: The 32-bit version of the PCMCIA PC Card standard. In addition to supporting a wider bus (32 bits instead of 16 bits), CardBus also supports bus mastering and operation speeds up to 33 MHz.

90.CDMA: Short for Code-Division Multiple Access, a digital cellular technology that uses spread-spectrum techniques.



91.3G: 3G is an ITU specification for the third generation (analog cellular was the first generation, digital PCS the second) of mobile communications technology. 3G promises

increased bandwidth, up to 384 Kbps

92.Active tag: Active tags generally can transmit their data over a longer distance,

93.Laptop computer: A small, portable computer -- small enough that it can sit on your lapAndroid

94.Android app: A mobile software application developed for use on devices powered by Google's Android platform.

95.Antenna: an antenna is a conductor that can transmit, send and receive signals such as microwave, radio or satellite signals



96.Beacon: In satellite communications, a beacon is a tracking device used by control engineers on the ground to monitor the satellite.

97.Bird: Slang term used to describe a communications satellite

98.Beam: To transmit information to another device wirelessly using the infrared port built into Palm and other devices.

99.BlackBerry: BlackBerry is a line of mobile e-mail devices and services from Research In Motion (RIM)

100.Bluebugging: Bluebugging allows skilled individuals to access the mobile phone commands using Bluetooth wireless technology without notifying or alerting the phone's user



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