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Preliminary version - PA4

IMAP4

LAN

Internet Message Access Protocol version 4. Used to collect email from a mail server. Has more features than POP3.

iMelody

A format for monophonic ringtones.

IrDA

Local Area Network.

MAC Address

Media Access Control address. This is a hardware address that uniquely identifies each node on a network.

MBM

Infrared Data Association.

Multi Bitmap. Image file format on Symbian OS.

ISDN

Integrated Services Digital Network. Can provide circuit-switched data connections in multiples of 64 Kbps.

ISP

Internet Service Provider.

J2ME™

Java2™ Micro Edition - an edition of the Sun Microsystems Java programming/runtime environment specifying two runtime environment 'configu- rations' aimed at small devices.

Java™ Phone

An API in Java™ used for interacting with a phone.

JFIF

JPEG File Interchange Format

JNI™

 

 

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Java™ Native Interface

 

 

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

JVM™

Java™ Virtual Machine

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ME

 

 

Mobile Equipment. (Phone excluding SIM card)

MeT

 

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Mobile Electronic Transactions. An initiative

founded by Ericsson, Nokia and Motorola to estab-

lish a secure and consistent framework for mobile

transactions.

 

 

MIDI

 

 

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Musical Instrument Digital Interface. MIDI defines a

protocolsand file format which enables music to be

described and stored in binary form.

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MIDP

 

 

Mobile Information Device Profile. An API (or 'pro- file' 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. 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 mul- timedia messages.

Kilobits per second - rate of data flow.

MMS-C

 

KVM

MMS Service Centre

 

'Kilo' Virtual Machine

 

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