Technical Abbreviations and Acronyms

LAN
Local Area Network

SD CARD
Secured Digital Card

WWW
World Wide Web

GPS
Global Positioning System

VPN
Virtual Private Network

GIF
Graphics Interchange Format

DVD
Digital Video Disk

CPU
Central Processing Unit

URL
Uniform Resource Locator

MAC (address)
Media Access Control

I/O
Input / Output

SQL
Structured Query Language

GPU
Graphics Processing Unit

ISP
Internet Service Provider

HDMI
High-Definition Multimedia Interface

LCD
Liquid Crystal Display

PDF
Portable Document Format

PNG
Portable Network Graphic

CCTV
Closed Circuit Television

SMS
Short Message Service

SSL
Secure Sockets Layer

MPEG
Moving Picture Experts Group

HTML
Hypertext Markup Language

DSL
Digital Subscriber Line

HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol

LTE
Long Term Evolution

CAPTCHA
Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart

IP
Internet Protocol

JPEG
Joint Photographic Experts group

EDGE
Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution

GSM
Global System for Mobile Communications

IMEI
International Mobile Equipment Identity

RW
Re-Writeable

RFI
Remote File Inclusion

LED
Light Emitting Diode

ADSL
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

WAN
Wide Area Network

CPU
Central Processing Unit

GPRS
General Packet Radio Service

SIMMs
Single In-line Memory Module

SDT
Serial Data Transmission

QVGA
Quarter Video Graphics Array

PDA
Personal Digital Assistant

PAN
Permanent Account Number

O.S
Operating System

OLED
Organic Light-Emitting Diode

NFC
Near field communication

DIMMs
Dual In-line Memory Module

DDR
Double Data Rate

DDOS
Distribution Denial of Service

DBMS
Database Management System

CMS
Content Management System

CMOS
Complimentary Metaoxide Semi-Conductor

PDT
Parallel Data Transmission

NAT
Network Address Translation

MAN
Metropolitan Area Network

MAC
Media Access Control

CDMA
Code Division Multiple Access

CCNA
Cisco Certified Network Associate

AGP
Accelerated Graphics Port

MBps
Megabytes per Hour

CISCO
Computer Information System Company

CCNP
Cisco Certified Network Professionals

CAN
Campus Area Network

HTC
High Tech Computer

VGA
Video Graphic Array

Kbps
Kilobits per Second

JPG
Joint Photographic Experts Group

IVRS
Interactive Voice Response System

IDE
Integrated Drive Electronics

HTTPS
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure

HSUPA
High-Speed Uplink Packet Access

HSPA
High Speed Packet Access

HSDPA
High-Speed Downlink Packet Access

GUI
Graphic User Interface

ENIAC
Electronic Number Integrator and Calculator

DLNA
Digital Living Network Alliance

CEH
Certified Ethical Hacking

BIOS
Basic Input Output system

ATX
Advanced Technology Extended

AT
Advanced Technology

IM
Instant Messaging

ICT
Information Communication Technology

HDD
Hard Disk Drive

IC
Integrated Circuit

GIGO
Gabbage in Gabbage Out

FTP
File Transport Protocol

ESP
Email Service Provider

EPROM
Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory

EDSAC
Electronic Dialog Storage Automatic Computer

EBCDIC
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange code

MPEG
Motion Picture Experts Group 

CD
Compact Disk

RAM
Random Access Memory

ROM
Read Only Memory

CD-ROM
Compact Disk - Read Only Memory

PROM
Programmable Read Only Memory

WLAN
Wireless Local Area Network

PC
Personal Computer

DOC
Document

TB
Terabytes

PPP
Point- to- Point Protocol

PPI
Pixels Per Inch


MHz
MegaHertz

GHz
GigaHertz

Wi- Fi
Wireless Fidelity

SIM
Subscriber Identity Module

USB
Universal Serial Bus

VR
Virtual Reality

WXGA
Wide Extended Graphics Array

WCDMA
Wide Band Code Division Multiple Access

VRML
Virtual Reality Mark- up Language

VDU
Visual Display Unit

USSD
Unstructured Supplementary Service Data

UNIVAC 
Universal Automatic Computer

UMTS
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System

TCP
Transmission Control Protocol

TBps
Terabytes per second

SNS
Social Networking Site

XML
Extensible Markup Language

VIRUS
Vital Information Resources Under Siege

ACER
Acquisition Collaboration Experimentation Reflection

CSS
Cascading Style Sheet

CDR
Compact Disk Recorder

HIV
Human Immunodeficiency Virus

ESN
Electronic Serial Number

KPI
Key Performance indicator

PPC
Pay per Click

LSIC
Large Scale Integrated Circuit

DPI
Dots per Inch

APN
Access Point Name

UPS
Uninterruptible Power Supply

ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ALU
Arithmetic Logic Unit

AMD
Advanced Micro Devices

AMOLED
Active -Matrix Organic Light- Emitting Diode

ASPI
Advanced SCSI Programming Interface