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PDA
Personal Digital Assistant. Handheld computer or personal
organizer device.
PocketPC®
The operating system (part of the WinCE family from
Microsoft) for a mobile device. There are several device
manufacturers that use this operating system.
Portability
Defines network connectivity that can be easily established,
used and then dismantled.
REAL-TIME
Real time is a level of responsiveness that a user senses as
sufficiently immediate or that enables a device to keep up
with some external process (for example, Covers Wireless
serves content as it happens).
Roaming
Provision and use of GSM/GPRS/UMTS (or other mobile
system) outside of the customer’s home network or country.
Service
Provider
A person or another entity that has the overall responsibility
for the provision of a service or a set of services to the users
and for negotiating network capabilities associated with the
service(s) (s)he provides.
Session
A mobile device running an instance of a network/client
application on a Fixed End System (FES) or application
server.
SMS
Short Messaging Service.
Store and
Forward
The ability to transmit a message to an intermediate relay
point and store it temporarily when the receiving device is
unavailable.
Uplink
Direction of data transfer from the mobile device to the
network.
USB (Universal
Serial Bus)
A plug-and-play interface between a computer and add-on
devices such as mobile devices (PalmOS®, PocketPC®),
printers, keyboards etc. New devices can be added without
adapter cards or without the computer being off.
Valued Added
Service
Provider
A service provider who offers services that add value to
other (primitive) services. (a value added service cannot be
used alone i.e., with another primitive service).
Wi-Fi (Wireless
Fidelity)
A wireless data networking protocol generally used to
connect PCs and laptops to a network. Also known as
802.11b and WLAN (Wireless LAN), it is the most
common means of wireless networking and operates at 2.4
GHz.
Wideband
A classification of the information capacity or bandwidth of
a communication channel. Wideband is generally taken to
mean a bandwidth between 64kbits/sec and 2Mbits/sec.
Wireless Access
A terminal access to the network which uses wireless
technology.
Wireless
Broadband
Transmission facilities that have bandwidth or capacity
greater than that of a voice line. Capable of carrying
numerous voice, video and data channels simultaneously.
Wireless
Carrier
A company that provides wireless telecommunications
services.
WISP
Wireless Internet Service Provider. vendor that specializes
in providing wireless Internet access.
WML (Wireless
Markup
Language)
A version of HDML (handheld device markup language),
WML is based on XML and will run with its over version
of Javascript. Wireless application developers use WML to
repurpose content for wireless devices.
