JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group, best known for the .JPG format for still image compression.

JVM

Java Virtual Machine

kbps

Kilobits per second – rate of data flow.

KVM

‘Kilo’ Virtual Machine

LAN

Local Area Network.

MBM

Multi Bitmap. Image file format on Symbian OS.

ME

Mobile Equipment. (Phone excluding SIM card)

MeT

Mobile Electronic Transactions. An initiative founded by Ericsson, Nokia and Motorola to establish a secure and consistent framework for mobile transactions.

MIDI

Musical Instrument Digital Interface. MIDI defines a protocol and file format which enables music to be described and stored in binary form.

MIDP

Mobile Information Device Profile. An API (or ‘profile’ in J2ME nomenclature) defined to enable a standard programming API for mobile devices. MIDP compliant applications execute in the restricted environment defined by the CLDC.

MIME

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. A protocol defining how messages are sent on the internet. For example, MIME is used to describe how attachments are encoded and what type of data they contain.

MMS

Multimedia Messaging Service. Logical extension of SMS and EMS, MMS defines a service enabling sound, images and video to be combined into multimedia messages.

MMS-C

MMS Service Centre

MO

Mobile Origination. For example, an SMS message sent from a mobile terminal.

P800/P802

White Paper, January 2003

MP3

MPEG Audio Layer 3. An audio compression technology that is part of MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 specifications. Commonly used to distribute music on the internet and on portable players.

MPEG

Moving Picture Experts Group. A working group of ISO/IEC in charge of the development of standards for coded representation of digital audio and video.

MS

Mobile Station. (Phone and SIM card)

MT

Mobile Termination.

OS

Operating System, such as Symbian OS, Linux, Microsoft® Windows®.

OTA

Over-the Air Configuration. To provide settings for the phone by way of sending a message, SMS, over the network to the phone. This reduces the need for the user to configure the phone manually.

PC

Personal Computer.

PCS

Personal Communications Services, often used to describe GSM1900 networks.

PDF

Portable Document Format. A format created by Adobe for storing and distributing documents.

PDP

Packet Data Protocol.

Personal Java

An edition of Java appropriate for mobile devices such as PDAs.

Phone book

A memory in the SIM card where phone numbers can be stored and accessed by name or position.

PIM

Personal Information Management. Generic term for applications such as Contacts, Calendar, Tasks etc.

PKI

Public Key Infrastructure.

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