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Jargon Watch www.techrepublic.com Jargon Watch: A glossary of IT words and phrases Updated: December 31, 1999 ©2001 TechRepublic, Inc. www.techrepublic.com. All rights reserved. Jargon Watch www.techrepublic.com Jargon Watch: A glossary of IT words and phrases Once a week TechRepublic brings you a list of words and phrases to keep you informed of new—and old—jargon in information technology and telecommunications. This table represents a compilation of words in our glossary. Click on any one of them to go to a full week’s list. And if you have any suggested new words or phrases, please send them to us in an e-mail.7 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Numbers Jargon Watch www.techrepublic.com Digital A Digital Advanced Mobile Phone Service Digital envelope Accredited Coach Training Agency (ACTA) Digital money Acronyms Digital subscriber line (DSL) Advanced Micro Devices DragStrip Advanced mobile phone service (AMPS) Dual HTML Output format AMPS Dynamic HTML (DHTML) Analog Dynamic link library (DLL) Application service providers (ASP) Asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) E Audio conferencing E-book Echo cancellation B E-gold Bandwidth on demand Electronic Financial Officer(EFO) Bit/byte Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) Bribery E-metal payment Broadband Emoticons Business coach Emotional intelligence Business process outsourcers (BPOs) Enterprise ASPs Business Software Alliance (BSA) F C Fat client CDMA FDMA CDPD Feeware Cellular Firmware Cellular Digital Packet Data Flame Certified coach Freeware Chernobyl Frequency Division Multiple Access Chief Web Officer Full duplex audio Chip Full-motion video Chomping CIF G CIH Gateway Cisco certifications Gigapops Client Global System for Mobile Communications Clustering Group collusion Code Division Multiple Access Groupware Codec GSM Commerce network providers Communities of practice (CoPs) Computer security incident response teams H Computer telephony H.320, H.323, H.324, H.261 Compression algorithm Hand-held Device Markup Language Cookies HDML CPU Hewlett-Packard certifications Crushing HTML Writers Guild (HWG) Cryptography CU-SeeMe I Cutting IBM certifications Cyberforensics IDT microprocessor Cybersquatting Information Technology Association of America Cyrix microprocessor Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) Intel microprocessor D Interface Definition Language (IDL) D-AMPS International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Data conferencing Internet Writers' Guild Data encryption standard Internet2 Data shredding Database appliance J Denial of service attack Java Telephony API (JTAPI) DES Desktop video conferencing Jargon Watch www.techrepublic.com K R Kerberos Kernel Rapid application development (RAD) Killer app Rate-adaptive DSL (RADSL) Kludge RDF Knowledge management Real-time Registry L Resource Description Framework Robotics Invention System (RIS) Last mile Room-based video conferencing Local loop RSA Lotus certifications S M Sales force automation (SFA) Mail bomb Script files Master Certified Coach (MCC) Script kiddies MCDBA Script language MCP Scripting host MCP+Internet Secure electronic transactions (SET) MCP+Site Building Secure http (SHTTP) MCSD Secure socket layer (SSL) MCSE Set-top box MCSE+Internet Shareware MCT SIM International Year 2000 Working Group MDBS Smurf attack Microprocessor Social engineering Microsoft certifications Society of Information Management (SIM) Middleware Software Contractors' Guild MIME Software management Mobile Data Base Station Spam Monetize Specialist ASPs Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) Standard compression algorithm Multipoint line Steganography Storage area network (SAN) N Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Strategic Management Society (SMS) Laws (NCCUSL) StrongARM Nested subwebs Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Netcheque Sun Microsystems chips Netiquette Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) Nortel & Bay Networks certifications System Administrators Guild (SAGE) Novell certifications NT 1 T T.120 O Tacit knowledge Office Server Extensions TDMA Open source Telephony application programming interface (TAPI) Oracle certifications TechProGuild (TPG) Telefelony P Telematics Telephony API P3P Terminator Payware Thin client PICS Thin server Ping Time Division Multiple Access Plain old telephone service (POTS) Trade secret Platform for Internet Content Selection Troll Processor Telephony server application programming interface (TSAPI) Professional Certified Coach (PCC) Technology without an interesting name (TWAIN) Proprietary algorithm Public room U University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (UCAID) Jargon Watch www.techrepublic.com Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) V Vaporware Very high-rate DSL (VDSL) Vertical market ASPs Video conferencing Videophoning Voice-over Internet protocol (VOIP) Volume business ASPs W W3C Warez Web queries Whiteboarding Windows registry Wireless Markup Language WML Women in Technology International (WITI) WYSIWYG X XML Z Zoomed Video port (ZV port) Numbers 32-bit processing 64-bit processing Jargon Watch www.techrepublic.com Jargon Watch www.techrepublic.com Accredited Coach Training Agency (ACTA): This International Coach Federation credential includes training plus 750 hours or a year and a half as a professional coach plus successfully passing an ICF-administered exam. Acronyms: Abbreviations for common phrases that help get your feelings across quickly to others in an e-mail or chat room. Here are some examples: AFK—away from keyboard, BAK—back at keyboard, BRB—be right back, BTW—by the way, FWIW—for what it's worth, GMTA—great minds think alike, IAC—in any case, IMHO—in my humble opinion, IMNSHO—in my not so humble opinion, LOL—laughing out loud, ROFL—rolling on floor laughing, TTFN--ta ta for now, TTYL--talk to you later, YMMV—your mileage may vary, WB—welcome back, WTG—way to go Advanced Micro Devices: A manufacturer of flash memories, programmable logic devices, embedded processors, and x86-compatible microprocessors. AMD chips are used by many computer manufacturers instead of Intel chips, making AMD Intel's biggest competitor. All of the AMD-K6 family of processors include MMX technology. Advanced mobile phone service (AMPS): An analog network protocol for air interface used by cellular operators in North America. The spectrum allocated to AMPS is shared by two cellular phone companies in each geographic region. (Other parts of the world embraced cellular service later than North America and are, therefore, digital.) AMPS: See Advanced mobile phone service Analog: In telephone transmission, spoken words are transmitted as analog sound waves or frequencies (as opposed to digital signals). Until the late 1960s, all telephone calls were analog. Now, while most phone companies are digital, there are still many sections of telephone networks that use analog service, including the majority of home telephones that plug into jacks and the telephone lines from homes to the nearest phone company equipment. Modems broaden analog capabilities, allowing these lines to carry data from digital computers. Application service providers (ASPs): A new breed of packaged application vendors that offer online services and applications to companies on an outsourcing basis on the Internet. This emerging market is becoming popular for fast-growing companies that need enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications but don't have the financial resources, personnel, or time to install and manage an ERP application. The solution: rent the application from an ASP. Applications that an ASP might provide include accounting and payroll, supply chain, collaboration, and e-commerce. Local/regional ASPs deliver application services to meet the computing needs of small businesses in a local geographic area. Asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL): A type of DSL service, an evolving high-speed transmission technology that uses the existing UTP copper wires from the telephone company's central office to the subscriber's premises. It requires ADSL modems at both locations. Asymmetric means the line has different speeds away from and toward the user. Audio conferencing: A conference with only voice connections is an audio conference. Bandwidth on demand: You use and pay for bandwidth only when you need it. This flexibility, offered by more and more ISPs, is usually related to a T-1 line and works well for growing companies that have high-volume connectivity needs that require the use of a full T-1 only during certain busy times. High-demand needs might include Web and e-mail servers, active networks, large data and file transfers (including CAD/CAM files), multimedia applications (including video or image file transfers and online videoconferencing) and more. Bit/byte: A bit is the smallest unit of data in a computer. However, computers usually store data and execute instructions in multiples of bits, called bytes. In most computer systems, there are eight bits Jargon Watch www.techrepublic.com in a byte (which generally represents a single letter or character, or four bytes to a word). A byte is abbreviated with a capital "B" and a bit is abbreviated with a small "b". Computer storage is measured in multiples of bytes, such as an 820 megabyte (MB) hard drive. Bribery: One class of internal security threat that occurs when an outside party corrupts or influences a staff member by offering money or gifts in exchange for sensitive information. Broadband: Any transmission facility providing bandwidth greater than a T3 (45