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A blueprint, developed by Intel in partnership with and supported by leading information technology (IT) vendors, for making PC-based systems — including desktops, mobile systems and servers — universally manageable. The initiative encompasses advances in hardware and software that enable system management software applications that provide management to the desktop, mobile system or server, and the integration with system management tools and frameworks. The innovations in hardware and software collectively enterprises should understand, evaluate and incorporate into all PC acquisitions.
Industry:Technology
Feature used to encrypt and decrypt data signals transmitted among WLAN devices. An optional IEEE 802.11 feature, WEP provides data confidentiality equivalent to a wired LAN that does not employ advanced cryptographic techniques to enhance privacy. WEP makes WLAN links as secure as wired links. See also WPA.
Industry:Technology
Windows Live Messenger is an enterprise IM service operating via Microsoft Exchange servers but compatible with MSN IM.
Industry:Technology
Microsoft’s Windows client operating environment is targeted and priced for consumer and business end users. This category includes all Windows predecessors, as well as Windows XP and Vista.
Industry:Technology
Windows CE is an OS for resource-constrained embedded applications. Windows Mobile is built on top of Windows CE, but CE is used to support many other devices and applications, not all of which are mobile, including set-top boxes. See also Windows Mobile 6.
Industry:Technology
Industry body supporting and developing the UWB standard. The Alliance announced in March 2009 that it would be disbanded once it had transferred its specifications to the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, the USB Promoter Group and the USB Implementers’ Forum. See also Bluetooth and UWB.
Industry:Technology
A collaborative authoring system for creating and maintaining linked collections of Web pages that enables users to add or change pages in a Web browser without having to worry about where and how the content is stored. Wikis enable mass authorship where potentially millions of people can collaborate to generate new content.
Industry:Technology
The provisional name for a 60 GHz in-room wireless technology which is being developed by a group of companies known as the Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WGA). The goals of WGA are to develop and promote a technology capable of short-range transmission at speeds of at least 1 Gbps at 10 meters range; the Alliance envisages that some implementations will exceed 6 Gbps. WiGig is intended to be a general-purpose standard which will be used for a wide range of devices including PCs, handheld equipment and consumer electronics. Potential applications include media streaming, PC docking, general-purpose networking and file transfer.
Industry:Technology
Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) is the final version of WPA agreed on by the Wi-Fi Alliance; it implements all aspects of the ratified 802.11i security standard and is mandatory in the Wi-Fi certification process. WPA2 is backward-compatible with WPA and can be implemented in two versions — WPA2 personal and WPA2 enterprise.
Industry:Technology
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is a security solution developed as a migration step toward 802.11i. Wi-Fi vendors introduced WPA in late 2002, before 802.11i was ratified. WPA formalized the choice for encryption but left open the choice of authentication. WPA was used as an improvement over the vulnerable WEP but was superseded by WPA2.
Industry:Technology
