Joint Photographic Experts Group, best known for the .JPG format for still image compression.
JVMJava Virtual Machine
kbpsKilobits per second – rate of data flow.
KVM‘Kilo’ Virtual Machine
LANLocal Area Network.
MBMMulti Bitmap. Image file format on Symbian OS.
ME
Mobile Equipment. (Phone excluding SIM card)
MeTMobile Electronic Transactions. An initiative founded by Ericsson, Nokia and Motorola to establish a secure and consistent framework for mobile transactions.
MIDIMusical Instrument Digital Interface. MIDI defines a protocol and file format which enables music to be described and stored in binary form.
MIDPMobile 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.
MIMEMultipurpose 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.
MMSMultimedia Messaging Service. Logical extension of SMS and EMS, MMS defines a service enabling sound, images and video to be combined into multimedia messages.
MMS Service Centre
MO
Mobile Origination. For example, an SMS message sent from a mobile terminal.
P800/P802
White Paper, January 2003
MP3MPEG Audio Layer 3. An audio compression technology that is part of
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®.
OTAPC
Personal Computer.
PCSPersonal Communications Services, often used to describe GSM1900 networks.
PDFPortable Document Format. A format created by Adobe for storing and distributing documents.
PDPPacket Data Protocol.
Personal JavaAn edition of Java appropriate for mobile devices such as PDAs.
Phone bookA memory in the SIM card where phone numbers can be stored and accessed by name or position.
PIMPersonal Information Management. Generic term for applications such as Contacts, Calendar, Tasks etc.
PKIPublic Key Infrastructure.
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