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UI

User Interface. Sometimes called 'Man-Machine Interface'.

UIQ

Acustomizable pen-based user interface for media-rich mobile phones that is based on the Symbian OS. It may be used as the basis for building an attractive and efficient UI.

UMTS

Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is one of the third-generation (3G) cell phone technologies. To differentiate UMTS from competing network technologies, UMTS is sometimes marketed as 3GSM, emphasizing the combination of the 3G nature of the technology and the GSM standard which it was designed to succeed.

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VGA

Video Graphics Array. Graphics standard introduced by IBM, having a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels.

VPN

A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a communications network tunnelled through another network. A common application is secure communications over the public Internet.

WAP

Wireless Application Protocol. Handheld devices, low bandwidth, binary coded, a deck/card metaphor to specify a service. A card is typically a unit of interaction with the user, that is, either presentation of information or request for information from the user. A collection of cards is called a deck, which usually constitutes a service.

URL

Uniform Resource Locator. Points to a service or information on the Internet.

USSD

Unstructured Supplementary Services Data. Narrow-band GSM data service. An example is, entering *79*1234# might return the stock price for stock 1234.

WAV

Short for Waveform audio format. WAV (or WAVE) is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing audio on a PC.

WBMP

Wireless BitMap. Part of the WAP specifications, an image format optimized for small mobile devices.

vCal; vCalendar

vCalendar defines a transport and platform- independent format for exchanging calendar and scheduling information for use in PIMs/PDAs and group schedulers. vCalendar is specified by IETF.

vCard

vCard automates the exchange of personal information typically found on a traditional business card, for use in applications such as Internet mail, voicemail, Web browsers, telephony applications, call centres, PIMs /PDAs, pagers, fax, office equipment, and smart cards. vCard is specified by IETF.

WIM

Wireless Identity Module.

WMA

Windows Media Audio, a compressed audio file format developed by Microsoft.

WML

Wireless Markup Language. A mark-up language used for authoring services, fulfilling the same purpose as HyperText Markup Language (HTML) does on the World Wide Web (www). In contrast to HTML, WML is designed to fit small handheld devices.

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