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1 Technology Abbreviations Abbreviations COMPUTER AI ARPANET ALGOL ALU AOL API ARP ASP ATM ASCII BMP BIOS B2B B2C BPS BCC CC CDMA CRT CAD CD CDRW CAM CROM CDROM CMD COBOL Stands for Commonly Operated Machine Particularly Used for Trade/Technology, Education, and Research. Artificial Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency Network Algorithmic Language Arithmetic Logic Unit America Online Application Program Interface Address Resolution Protocol Active Server Pages Asynchronous Transfer Mode American Standard Code for Information Interchange Bitmap Basic Input Output System Business to Business Business to Consumer Bytes Per Second Blind Carbon Copy Carbon Copy Code Division Multiple Access Cathode Ray Tube Computer Aided Design Compact Disk Compact Disk Rewritable Computer Aided Manufacturing Computerized Range of Motion Compact Disk Read Only Memory Command Common Business Oriented Language

2 CPI CPU CSS DAT DDR DDR SDRAM DOS DOC Doc DVD DVDR DVDRW DBMS DRAM DDL DHTML DNS DPI DNA DARPANET DVR E-Commerce EDI EROM EPROM FDD FORTRAN FTP FS FAT FM GB GIF GPRS Clock / Cycle Per Instruction Central Processing Unit Cascading Style Sheets Digital Audio Tape Double Data Rate Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory Disk Operating System Data Optimizing Computer Document Digital Versatile Disk Digital Versatile Disk Recordable Digital Versatile Disk Rewritable Data Base Management System Dynamic Random Access Memory Data Definition Language Dynamics Hyper Text Markup Language Domain Name System Dots Per Inch Distributed Internet Architecture Defense Advanced Research Project Agency Network Digital Video Recorder Electronic Commerce Electronic Data Interchange Erasable Read Only Memory Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory Electronic Mail Floppy Disk Drive Formula Translation File Transfer Protocol File System File Allocation Table Frequency Modulation Giga Byte Graphic Interchangeable Format General Packet Radio Service

3 GPS Global Positioning System GUI Graphical User Interface GSM Global System for Mobile Communication GHz GigaHertz GIGO Garbage In Garbage Out HDMI High Definition Multimedia Interface HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol HTTPS Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure HTML Hyper Text Markup Language HD Hard Disk HDD Hard Disk Drive HP Hewlett Packard/Horse Power ISO International Organization for Standardization IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol INTEL Integrated Electronics ISP Internet Service Provider INFO Information IP Internet Protocol IPV4 Internet Protocol Version 4 IPV6 Internet Protocol Version 6 IO Input Output IOP Input Output Processor IBM International Business Machines IC Integrated Circuit ICT Information Communication Technology IT Information Technology JAR Java Archive J2EE Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition JAD Java Application Descriptor/Development JPEG Joint Photographic Expert Group JS Java Script JSP Java Server Page KB KILOBYTE Kbps Kilobits/Kilobytes Per Second LAN Local Area Network LCD Liquid Crystal Display LED Light Emitting Diode

4 MB Motherboard/ Megabyte MBPS Megabits/Megabytes Per Second MHz Mega Hertz MIPS Million Instructions Per Second MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions MICR Magnetic Ink Character Recognition MPEG Motion Picture Experts Group Mp3 MPEG Audio Layer 3 Mp4 MPEG 4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding) NAT Network Address Translation NIC Network Interface Card NTFS New Technology File System OMR Optical Mark Reader/Recognition OOP Object Oriented Programming OS Operating System PC Personal Computer PDF Portable Document Format PHP Hypertext Preprocessor PB PETA BYTE PNG Portable Network Graphics PNP Plug and Play PDA Personal Digital Assistant PPP Point to Point Protocol PROM Programmable Read Only Memory PSU Power Supply Unit PING Packet Internet/Internetwork Groper RAM Random Access Memory RDBMS Relational Data Base Management System ROM Read Only Memory RIP Routing Information Protocol RPM Revolutions Per Minute RTF Rich Text Format SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol SSD Solid State Drive SW Software SMS Short Message Service s SQL Structured Query Language

5 TB TiB TCP TXT URL UHF USB UPS UI VIRUS VCD VHF VGA VGA VOIP VPN VR WAN WAP WWW WLAN WMV XML XHTML XSL TERA BYTE TEBI BYTE Transmission Control Protocol Text Uniform Resource Locator Ultra High Frequency Universal Serial Bus Uninterruptible Power Supply User Interface Vital Information Resource Under Seized Video Compact Disk Very High Frequency Video Graphics Array Video/Visual Graphic Adapter Voice Over Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network Virtual Reality Wide Area Network Wireless Application Protocol World Wide Web Wireless Local Area Network Windows Media Video Extensible Markup Language Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language Extensible Style Language

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