Sony Ericsson P900 User Guide - Page 185

This is the Internet version of the user's guide. © Print only for private use. USB Universal Serial Bus. A plug-and-play interface between a computer and add-on devices (such as audio players, joysticks, keyboards, phones, scanners, and printers). With USB, a new device can be added to your computer without having to add an adapter card or even having to turn the computer off. USSD Unstructured Supplementary Services Data. Narrow-band GSM data service. For example entering *79*1234# might return the stock price for stock 1234. vCal; vCalendar vCalendar defines a transport and platform-independent format for exchanging calendar and scheduling information for use in PIMs/PDAs and group schedulers. vCalendar is specified by IETF. VPN Virtual Private Network. A private network that is configured within a public network. A VPN appear as private national or international network to the customer, but physically shares a backbone trunk with other customers. VPNs enjoy the security of a private network via access control and encryption, while taking advantage of the economies of scale and built-in management facilities of large public networks. Today, there is tremendous interest in VPNs over the Internet, especially due to the constant threat of hacker attacks. WAP Wireless Application Protocol is a specification for a set of communication protocols to standardise the way that wireless devices, such as cellular phones and radio transceivers, can be used for Internet access, including e-mail, the World Wide Web and newsgroups. vCard vCard automates the exchange of personal information typically found on a traditional business card, for use in applications such as Internet mail, voice mail, Web browsers, phone applications, call centres, video conferencing, PIMs /PDAs, pagers, fax, office equipment, and smart cards. vCard is specified by IETF. VGA Video Graphics Array. Graphics standard introduced by IBM, having a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels. WAV A Wave file is an audio file format, created by Microsoft, that has become a standard PC audio file format for everything from system and game sounds to CD-quality audio. A Wave file is identified by a file name extension of WAV (.wav). WBXML Wireless Binary Extensible Markup Language. Terms and definitions 185