WEP

Wired Equivalent Privacy. An encryption service built in to many 802.11 products intended to make the connection secure.

WiFi

Wireless Fidelity. The popular name for 802.11 technologies that have passed WiFi Certification Testing, for which WECA is responsible.

WiFi Alliance

See WECA.

WLAN

Wireless LAN (Local Area Network)

WML

Wireless Markup Language. A markup language used for authoring services, fulfilling the same role as HTML does on the world-wide web. In contrast to HTML, WML has been specifically designed to suit small hand- held devices.

WWW

World Wide Web.

XML

Extensible Markup Language.

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