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White Paper W950
71 June 2006
Preliminary version - PA4
vCal; vCalendar
vCalendar defines a transport and platform-inde-
pendent format for exchanging calendar and
scheduling information for use in PIMs/PDAs and
group schedulers. vCalendar is specified by IETF.
vCard
vCard automates the exchange of personal infor-
mation typically found on a traditional business
card, for use in applications such as Internet mail,
voicemail, Web browsers, telephony applications,
call centres, PIMs /PDAs, pagers, fax, office equip
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ment, and smart cards. vCard is specified by IETF.
VGA
Video Graphics Array. Graphics standard intro-
duced by IBM, having a resolution of 640 x 480 pix-
els.
VPN
Virtual Private Network.
WAP
Wireless Application Protocol. Handheld devices,
low bandwidth, binary coded, a deck/card meta
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phor to specify a service. A card is typically a unit
of interaction with the user, that is, either presenta
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tion of information or request for information from
the user. A collection of cards is called a deck,
which usually constitutes a service.
WAV
Waveform audio. Format for storing sound.
WBMP
Wireless BitMap. Part of the WAP specifications,
an image format optimized for small mobile
devices.
WBXML
Wireless Binary Extensible Markup Language.
WIM
Wireless Identity Module.
WMA
Windows Media Audio, a compressed audio file
format developed by Microsoft™.
WML
Wireless Markup Language. A mark-up language
used for authoring services, fulfilling the same pur
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pose as HyperText Markup Language (HTML) does
on the World Wide Web (WWW). In contrast to
HTML, WML is designed to fit small handheld
devices.
WTLS
Wireless Transport Layer Security. Part of WAP,
WTLS provides privacy, data integrity and authenti
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cation on transport layer level between two appli-
cations.
XHTML
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
XML
Extensible Markup Language