(WAN) Wide Area Network
| geographically dispersed telecommunications network.
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(WAP) Wireless Application Protocol
| a set of standards for the presentation and delivery of wireless information and telephone services on mobile phones and Personal Directory Assistants.
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WEB CPD | Central Physicians Directory
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| Web Sphere | WebSphere is a set of Java-based tools from IBM that allows customers to create and manage sophisticated business Web sites. The central WebSphere tool is the WebSphere Application Server (WAS), an application server that a customer can use to connect Web site users with Java applications or servlets. Servlets are Java programs that run on the server rather than on the user's computer as Java applets do. Servlets can be developed to replace traditional common gateway interface (CGI) scripts, usually written in C or PERL (Practical Extraction and Reporting Language), and run much faster because all user requests run in the same process space. |
(WINS) Windows Internet Naming Service
| manages the association of workstation names and locations with Internet Protocol (IP) addresses without the user or administrator having to be involved in each configuration change.
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| Wine | Wine is open source software that allows Microsoft Windows applications to be run on x86 processor-based Unix-like systems, including Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. |
Wireless
| term used to describe telecommunications in which electromagnetic waves rather than wire carry the signal over part of or all of the communication path.
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(WML) Wireless Markup Language
top | a language that began to be developed during 1999 to address the limitations caused by the size of hand held devices to input and receive information.
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| Wireless Mesh Network | A wireless mesh network is a mesh network created through the connection of wireless access points installed at each network user's locale. Each network user is also a provider, forwarding data to the next node. The networking infrastructure is decentralized and simplified because each node need only transmit as far as the next node. Wireless mesh networking could allow people living in remote areas and small businesses operating in rural neighborhoods to connect their networks together for affordable Internet connections. |
(XML) Extensible Markup Language
| an emerging standard language that can be used to provide data exchange between a wide range of systems. DIR-XML will likely provide data exchange standards between disparate directory systems.
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(XrML) Extensible Rights Markup Language
| proposed standard digital rights markup language enabling users to specify rights and conditions associated with resources.
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| Zotob | Zotob is a worm that exploits a Windows buffer overflow vulnerability, allowing the attacker to gather personal and financial information from targeted computers and networks. In addition to obtaining and potentially exploiting critical information stored in a personal or business computer, Zotob can convert an infected computer into a so-called zombie for the purpose of spreading spam. Zotob, which has several variants, is an outgrowth of a worm called Mytob |
