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SC
Service Provider
SIM card
SIR
SMS
SS
TCP/IP
TLS
URL
USSD
VAS
vCalendar
vCard
WAE
WAP
WAP Application
WAP service
WBMP
WDP
WML
WMLScript
can be stored and accessed by name or position.
Service Center (for SMS).
A company that provides services and subscriptions to mobile phone
users.
Subscriber Identity Module card Ð a card that must be inserted in any
GSM-based mobile phone. It contains subscriber details, security
information and memory for a personal directory of numbers. The card
can be a small plug-in type or credit card-sized but both types have the
same functions. Your phone uses the small plug-in card.
Serial Infrared.
Short Message Service. Allows messages of up to 160 characters to be
sent and received via the network operator's message centre to your
mobile phone. Messages are stored if the phone is off or out of reach
ensuring that they reach you. To use this service, it must be supported
by your network.
Supplementary Services
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.
Transport Layer Security.
Uniform Resource Locator.
Unstructured Supplementary Services Data.
Value Added Service.
vCalendar deÞnes a transport and platform-independent format for
exchanging calendaring and scheduling information for use in PIMs/
PDAs and group schedulers. vCalendar is speciÞed by IETF.
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, telephony applications, call centers,
video conferencing, PIMs /PDAs, pagers, fax, ofÞce equipment, and
smart cards. vCard is speciÞed by IETF.
Wireless Application Environment.
Wireless Application Protocol. Handheld devices, low bandwidth,
binary coded, a deck/card metaphor to specify a service. A card is typi-
cally a unit of interaction with the user, that is, either presentation of
information or request for information from the user. A collection of
cards is called a deck, which usually constitutes a service.
A collection of WML cards, with the newcontext attribute set in the
entry card.
A WML application residing on a web site.
WAP Bitmap.
Wireless Datagram Protocol.
Wireless Markup Language. A markup language used for authoring
services, fulÞlling the same purpose as HyperText Markup Language
(HTML) do on the World Wide Web (WWW). In contrast to HTML,
WML is designed to Þt small handheld devices.
WMLScript can be used to enhance the functionality of a service, just
as for example JavaScript may be utilised in HTML. It makes it pos-
sible to add e.g. procedural logic and computational functions to WAP
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