SMS which stands for Short Message Service and is also referred to as text messaging is a cheaper alternative to making phone calls from mobile phone to mobile phone instead sending short messages between them. The 1985 Global System for Mobile communications GSM series of standards included SMS among its standards. The original...

Symbian is a proprietary operating system for wireless telecommunications succeeding Psion Software s EPOC. Released in 1999 it is owned by a number of companies Nokia with 47.9 of the share Ericsson with 15.6 Sony Ericsson with 13.1 Panasonic with 10.5 Siemens AG with 8.4 and Samsung with 4.5 . Symbian was designed for handheld mobile...

TDMA which stands for time division multiple access is a method of channel access developed specifically for shared medium networks such as radio broadcast. It is a form of time-division multiplexing; however instead of having one transmitter connected to one receiver TDMA systems may connect multiple transmitters to a receiver. Several users...

J2ME which stands for Java 2 Platform Micro Edition is a subset of the Java platform designed by Sun Microsystems as a replacement for PersonalJava. The other two Java platforms are the Standard Edition Java SE and the Enterprise Edition Java EE . J2ME was originally developed under the Java Community Process as JSR 68 and it was developed...

iDEN which stands for Integrated Digital Enhanced Network is a wireless telecommunications technology which offers the benefits of a trunked radio and a mobile phone to its subscribers. It was developed by Motorola and released in 1994. In comparison to analog cellular and two-way radio systems iDEN is able to place more users in a given spectral...

MMS which stands for Multimedia Messaging Service is a standard for wireless telecommunications systems developed as an evolution of Short Message Service SMS . It enables the transmission of messages that in addition to just text as included in SMS may include multimedia objects such as audio video images and rich text. MMS along with such...

AirPort Extreme is the successor of AirPort a wireless local area networking brand introduced by Apple Inc. It was introduced by Apple on January 7 2003. While AirPort was based on the IEEE 802.11b AirPort Extreme was based on the IEEE 802.11g standard and it is compatible with other devices under the 802.11g standard. Another family of AirPort...

Advanced Mobile Phone System AMPS is a first-generation 1G analog mobile phone system standard developed by Bell Labs and introduced in America in 1983 with variants such as Total Access Communication System TACS available in Europe and Japanese Total Access Communication JTAC available in Japan. It uses separate frequencies for every conversation...

3x is the second revision of the Evolution-Data Optimized EV-DO set of mobile telecommunications standards made by the Third Generation Partnership Project 2 3GPP2 . It is also known as TIA-856 Rev B or EV-DO Rev B antecedent to EV-DO Rev 0 and EV-DO Rev A. It is one of several types of the CDMA2000 set of standards its full designation being...

2.5G which stands for second and a half generation is a cellular wireless technology developed in between its predecessor 2G and its successor 3G. 2.5G" is an informal term invented solely for marketing purposes unlike 2G" or 3G" which are officially defined standards based on those defined by the...

1xEV-DV which is short for CDMA2000 1xEV-DV is a third generation 3G standard developed to compete against the Evolution-Data Optimized CDMA2000 1xEV-DO standard. It was an innovation of a number of cellular wireless telecommunication companies such as Nokia Motorola Qualcomm and Lucent. 1x" stands for one time while...

2G refers to second generation wireless telecommunication technology. While its predecessor 1G made use of analog radio signals 2G uses digital radio signals. Based on what type of multiplexing the process of combining multiple digital data streams into one signal is employed 2G technologies may be categorized by whether they are based on time...

1G which stands for first generation refers to the first generation of wireless telecommunication technology more popularly known as cellphones. A set of wireless standards developed in the 1980 s 1G technology replaced 0G technology which featured mobile radio telephones and such technologies as Mobile Telephone System MTS Advanced...

1x is third generation 3G protocol although some may consider it as 2.5 or 2.75G technology meaning it provides some but not all of the benefits of 3G. In its full designation CDMA2000 1xRTT CDMA" stands for code division multiple access" while 1xRTT" stands for 1 times Radio Transmission Technology. This...

Warchalking is a wireless networking term that refers to the practice of drawing symbols normally using chalk as a medium in public places to demarcate or advertise a Wi-Fi wireless network that is open to the public. The term was spawned as an analogy to the term wardriving which refers to the practice of navigating a given location...

Wardriving is a wireless networking term that refers to the event when a person in a moving vehicle with a Wi-Fi equipped computer like a laptop or a personal digital assistant PDA roams around a given location to search for Wi-Fi wireless networks. This instance is comparable to the use of a radio scanner or to DXing distancing which is when...

WLAN which stands for Wireless Local Area Network is the technology of networking of a number of computers with each other without requiring the usage of wires. Due to a number of WLAN s advantages such as ease of installation convenience deployment mobility expandability productivity and cost the popularity of WLAN has increased among home...

WAP which stands for wireless access point is a device used for the formation of a wireless network through connection of wireless communication devices. It often connects to a wired network enabling it to transmit data between wired and wireless devices. A larger roaming" -enabled network may be formed by linking together several WAPs....

WEP which could stand for either Wired Equivalent Privacy or Wireless Encryption Protocol is a security scheme employed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE for IEEE 802.11 wireless networks since the standard s ratification in September 1999. WEP was part of the IEEE 802.11 standard and its amendments up until IEEE 802.11i...

WiMAX which stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access is a subset of standard interoperable implementations within the IEEE 802.16 family of standards developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE 802.16 Working Group on Broadband Wireless Access Standards. The workgroup a unit of the IEEE...