Name
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Description
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Link
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Bluetooth
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An open specification for seamless wireless short-range
communications of data and voice between both mobile and stationary devices
See http://www.bluetooth.com/.
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Bluetooth
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CDMA
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Code Division Multiple Access: a digital wireless telephony
transmission technique. The leading standard is IS-95.
See http://www.tiaonline.org/.
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Using Multimode ETel
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CompactFlash
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A storage medium for mobile devices.
See http://www.compactflash.org/.
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GPRS
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General Packet Radio Service: a 2.5G radio technology for GSM
networks that adds packet-switching protocols, shorter set-up time for ISP
connections, and offer the possibility to charge by amount of data sent rather
than connect time.
See http://www.gsmworld.com/.
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Using Multimode ETel
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GSM
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Global System for Mobile communications: the most widely used
digital mobile phone system and the de facto wireless telephone standard in
Europe.
See http://www.gsmworld.com/.
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Using Multimode ETel
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HSCSD
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High Speed Circuit Switched Data: a dedicated circuit-switched data
communications technology for GSM.
See http://www.gsmworld.com/.
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Using Multimode ETel
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HTTP
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The underlying transfer protocol used by the World Wide Web.
See http://www.w3.org/.
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Using HTTP Client
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IMAP4
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Internet Message Access Protocol: a highly-functional protocol for
retrieving email over the Internet.
See IETF RFC 2060.
|
Using Email
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IPv4
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The traditional Internet Protocol standard, which defines
addressing and packet formats for communication over the internet.
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Using TCP/IP
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IPv6
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Extension of the traditional IPv4 standard, allowing a much larger
address space.
See IETF RFC 2460.
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Using TCP/IP
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IrDA
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Infrared Data Association: the standards body that defines a suite
of protocols for infrared (IR) exchange of data between two devices
See http://www.irda.org/.
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Infrared
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IrTranP
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Infrared Transfer Picture: this provides transfer of pictures from
digital cameras to devices over infrared.
See http://www.irda.org/.
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Using IrTranP
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MIDP
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Mobile Information Device Profile: a set of Java APIs that is
generally implemented on the Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC). It
provides a basic Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) application runtime environment
targeted at mobile information devices, such as mobile phones and two-way
pagers.
See http://java.sun.com/products/midp/
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MultiMediaCard
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An open standard for removable, solid-state memory.
http://www.mmca.org/
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Base Porting Kit's MultiMediaCard
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POP3
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Post Office Protocol version 3: a common protocol for transferring
mail from the server ('Post Office') to the client.
See IETF RFC 1939.
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Using Email
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RS232
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The standard for serial data transmission using cables.
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Serial Comms
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SMS
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Short Message Service: a GSM service for sending and receiving
short text messages.
See http://www.gsmworld.com/
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Using GSM SMS,
Using CDMA SMS Messaging
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SMTP
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Simple Mail Transfer Protocol: the commonest protocol employed for
transferring Internet mail messages from the client to the server.
See IETF RFC 821.
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Using Email
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SyncML
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Synchronization Markup Language: an industry-wide effort to create
a single, common data synchronization protocol optimized for wireless networks.
See http://www.syncml.org/
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SyncML Client v3.0
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TCP/IP
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The internet communications protocol suite, which supplies the data
and transport protocols for higher level protocols such as Web and Email.
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Using TCP/IP
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Unicode
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A 16-bit character encoding scheme allowing characters from all
major world languages to be encoded in a single character set.
See http://www.unicode.org/.
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Character Conversion
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USB
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Universal Serial Bus: an external bus standard that supports high
data-transfer rates and a single interface for diverse device types.
See http://www.usb.org/.
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RUsb etc.
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WAP
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Wireless Application Protocol: a set of communication protocol
standards to make accessing online services from a mobile phone simple.
See http://www.wapforum.org/
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Wap etc.
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