| Bluetooth : |
A brand of wireless connectivity technology named after Harald Bluetooth, a Viking and king of Denmark from the years 940 to 981, who was renowned for his ability to help people communicate. |
| GPS : |
Global Positioning System - a navigational system using satellite signals to fix the location of a receiver on or above the earth's surface. |
| HotSync : |
Is a method of exchanging data or backing up data between your PDA and desktop computer through a serial port or USB connection. |
| MB |
Mega-byte - a unit of computer information storage capacity equal to 1,048,576 bytes |
| MP3 : |
Is the file extension for MPEG, audio layer 3. Layer 3 is one of three coding schemes (layer 1, layer 2 and layer 3) for the compression of audio signals. Layer 3 uses perceptual audio coding and psychoacoustic compression to remove all superfluous information (more specifically, the redundant and irrelevant parts of a sound signal. The stuff the human ear doesn't hear anyway). Because MP3 files are small, they can easily be transferred across the Internet. |
| Multimedia : |
When you use, involve, or encompass several media e.g. Human-computer interaction involving text, graphics, voice and video. Often also includes concepts from hypertext. |
| Operating system : |
The most important program that runs on a computer. Every general-purpose computer must have an operating system to run other programs. Operating systems perform basic tasks, such as recognizing input from the keyboard, sending output to the display screen, keeping track of files and directories on the disk, and controlling peripheral devices such as disk drives and printers. |
| PDA : |
Personal Digital Assistants |
| RAM : |
Random-Access Memory - a computer memory that provides the main internal storage available to the user for programs and data. |
| ROM : |
Read-Only Memory - a usually small computer memory that contains special-purpose information (as a program) which cannot be altered. |
| Synchronized : |
To make synchronous, that is, digital communication (as between computers) in which a common timing signal is established that dictates when individual bits can be transmitted, in which characters are not individually delimited, and which allows for very high rates of data transfer |
| Windows OS : |
Microsoft Windows version of an operating system (see Operations system above) |
