Mobile technology
(DDG Topics List)2-way iSMS - The iSMS is a patented next generation interactive version of the traditional SMS text message and a trademark, which enables iSMS–powered solutions to perform interactive iSMS-dialogues between...
Access Stratum - Access Stratum is a functional layer in the Wireless Telecom protocol stack between Core Network and User Equipment.
Advanced Wireless Services - Advanced Wireless Services, also known as AWS-1 or UMTS band IV, is a wireless telecommunications spectrum band used for mobile voice and data services, video, and messaging.
AirWatch - AirWatch is an enterprise-wide mobile device management and wireless LAN management solution designed to secure, monitor, manage and support all 802.11 and cellular devices deployed across an en...
AskMeNow - AskMeNow Inc. was an American public corporation, specializing in mobile search and mobile advertising.
Assisted GPS - Assisted GPS, generally abbreviated as A-GPS, is a system which can improve the startup performance of a GPS satellite-based positioning system.
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Audience (telecom company) - Audience is a telecommunications company based in Mountain View, California.
Basic Trading Area - In the US, a Basic Trading Area is a geographic region defined originally in the Rand McNally Commercial Atlas and Marketing Guide and used by the FCC where a Personal Communications Service can...
Cablefree - CableFree Solutions Ltd. provides high-capacity wireless Ethernet and TDM wireless backhaul solutions to cellular network operators, IP service providers, WISPs, Government, Healthcare, F...
CDMA Chipsets - CDMA Chipsets is a popular Chipsets used in 3G and 2G mobile phones manufactured by Qualcomm Inc.
Cell of origin (telecommunications) - Cell of Origin is a mobile positioning technique for finding a caller's cell location.
Cell on wheels - A cell on wheels, usually referred to as a COW, is a mobile cell site that consists of a cellular antenna tower and electronic radio transceiver equipment on a truck or trailer, designed t...
Cellular repeater - A cellular repeater, cell phone repeater, or wireless cellular signal booster, a type of bi-directional amplifier as commonly named in the wireless telecommunications industry, ...
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CIMD - Computer Interface to Message Distribution is a proprietary short message service centre protocol developed by Nokia for their Artus SMSC.
Closed User Group (CUG) - Closed User Groups are groups of mobile telephone subscribers who can only make calls and receive calls from members within the group.
Columbitech - Columbitech, founded in 2000, provides wireless security to secure mobile devices, with support for WLAN and public networks, including 3G, 4G and WiMAX. The company is headquartered in Stockhol...
Context-aware services - Context-aware services is a computing technology which incorporates information about the current location of a mobile user to provide more relevant services to the user.
Coverage map - Coverage maps are designed to indicate the service areas of radiocommunication transmitting stations.
DigRF - The DigRF working group was formed as a MIPI Alliance working group in April 2007.
Dual mode mobile - Dual mode mobiles refer to mobile phones that are compatible with more than one form of data transmission or network.
Dumb pipe - With regards to a mobile network operator, the term dumb pipe refers to an operator’s network being used simply to transfer bytes between the customer’s device and the Internet.
Dynamic Link Adaptation - In mobile telephony, Dynamic Link Adaptation is a method and strategy by which cellular networks can dynamically adapt a radio link according to changing conditions of interference.
E-OTD - E-OTD is the acronym for the Enhanced Observed Time Difference.
Electronic Serial Number - Electronic Serial Numbers were created by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to uniquely identify mobile devices from the days of AMPS in the United States from the early 1980s.
EMI (protocol) - External Machine Interface, an extension to Universal Computer Protocol, is a protocol primarily used to connect to short message service centres for mobile telephones.
Enhanced GPS - Enhanced GPS is a technology designed for mobile phones on GSM and W-CDMA networks, to augment GPS signals to deliver faster location fixes, lower cost implementations and reduced power and proc...
Enterprise Mobility Management - Enterprise Mobility Management is the set of people, processes and technology focused on managing the increasing array of mobile devices, wireless networks, and related services.
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ERMES - ERMES is a pan-European radio paging system.
ESME - External Short Messaging Entity is a term originally coined by Aldiscon to describe an external application that connects to an SMSC to engage in the sending and/or receiving of SMS messages.
EUIMID - EUIMID is a unique identifier for an R-UIM or CSIM in CDMA2000 cellular systems that replaces the older UIMID.
Fixed and Mobile - Fixed & Mobile is a Singapore-based company provides mobile operators, internet service providers and international telecoms carriers with integrated voice and data services designed for people ...
FLEX (protocol) - FLEX is a communications protocol developed by Motorola and used in many pagers.
General content descriptor - A General Content Descriptor is a file which describes downloads like ringtones and pictures to wireless devices.
Generic Bootstrapping Architecture - In mobile phones, Generic Bootstrapping Architecture is one technology enabling the authentication of a user.
GMLC - The Gateway Mobile Location Centre contains functionality required to support LCS.
GoTV Networks - GoTV Networks, also known as GoTV, is a mobile content firm specialized in making made-for-mobile television programming, using both licensed and original television content.
GreenCells - GreenCells is a company that buys and resells used, refurbished or discontinued cell phones, to help reduce electronic waste.
Handheld television - A Handheld television is a portable device that usually uses a TFT LCD or LED color display.
Handover - In cellular telecommunications, the term handover or handoff refers to the process of transferring an ongoing call or data session from one channel connected to the core network to another.
Hardlink (homonymy) - A hardlink is one of several methods of object hyperlinking including graphical tags, SMS tags and RFID tags.
Helio Ocean - The Helio Ocean is a dual slider Internet-enabled multimedia wireless mobile device sold by mobile virtual network operator wireless carrier Helio, and manufactured by Pantech Curitel.
Identity management - Identity management or ID management is a broad administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system and controlling the access to the resources in that system by placing ...
IDT Spectrum - IDT Spectrum, a subsidiary of IDT Corporation, holds and leases fixed wireless spectrum.
Instant message service center - An Instant Message Service Center is a network element in the mobile telephone network which delivers instant messages.
Inter standard roaming - Inter Standard Roaming is a general term in wireless telecommunications that refers to roaming between two standards.
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Interference in mobile communications - Interference in mobile communications refers to Co channel and Adjacent channel interference, two types of interference in mobile communications.
IP Multimedia Subsystem - The IP Multimedia Subsystem is an architectural framework for delivering Internet Protocol multimedia services.
IQAN - IQAN is a trademark for electronic control systems for mobile machinery, owned by Parker Hannifin corporation.
IST-Plastic - Plastic, acronym of Providing Lightweight & Adaptable Service Technology for Information and Communication, is a project that develops a design framewor...
iTap - iTap is a predictive text technology for mobile phones, developed by Motorola as a competitor to T9.
July Systems - July Systems,a mobile media company, was co-founded in 2001 by the technology entrepreneur Rajesh TS Reddy.
Jumptap - JumpTap, Inc., is a mobile search and advertising solutions provider headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with offices across North America and in London, Madrid, Paris, Rotterdam, Stockho...
Kamal Quadir - Kamal S. Quadir is a Bangladeshi American entrepreneur and artist best known as the creator of CellBazaar, a mobile phone based electronic marketplace.
Local number portability - Local number portability for fixed lines, and full mobile number portability for mobile phone lines, refers to the ability to transfer either an existing fixed-line or mobile telephone num...
Location awareness - Location awareness as a term in context with topography has been extended to navigation using navigational instruments serving for the coordinates of the actual location of the bearer of a wirel...
Macrocell - A macrocell is a cell in a mobile phone network that provides radio coverage served by a power cellular base station.
Microcell - A microcell is a cell in a mobile phone network served by a low power cellular base station, covering a limited area such as a mall, a hotel, or a transportation hub.
MINDS - Initiated as an EU-funded project in 2004, MINDS International was founded as an Association in fall 2007 by 11 news agencies from Europe and the USA. MINDS International acts as a research and...
Mobify - Mobify is a mobile web company providing an interface to convert existing websites into a version optimized for mobile phones.
Mobile Access Protocol - MAP27 Mobile Access Protocol for MPT 1327 equipment This standard specifies an interface between a mobile radio and a data terminal equipment.
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Mobile Assisted Language Learning - Mobile Assisted Language Learning describes an approach to language learning that is enhanced through use of a mobile device.
Mobile commerce - Mobile Commerce is the ability to conduct commerce, using a mobile device e.g. a mobile phone, a PDA, a smartphone and other emerging mobile equipment such as dashtop mobile devices.
Mobile database - A mobile database is a database that can be connected to by a mobile computing device over a mobile network.
Mobile Equipment Identifier - A Mobile Equipment Identifier is a globally unique number identifying a physical piece of CDMA mobile station equipment.
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Mobile IPTV - Mobile IPTV is a technology that enables users to transmit and receive multimedia traffic including television signal, video, audio, text and graphic services through IP-based the wired and wire...
Mobile network operator - A mobile network operator, also known as mobile phone operator, carrier service provider, wireless service provider, wireless carrier, or cellular company, is a tel...
Mobile phone tracking - Mobile phone tracking tracks the current position of a mobile phone even on the move.
Mobile radio - Mobile radio or mobiles refer to wireless communications systems and devices which are based on radio frequencies, and where the path of communications is movable on either end.
Mobile search - Mobile search is an evolving branch of information retrieval services that is centered around the convergence of mobile platforms and mobile phones and other mobile devices.
Mobile technology - Mobile technology is a collective term used to describe the various types of cellular communication technology.
Mobile Telephone Switching Office - The Mobile Telephone Switching Office is the mobile equivalent to a PSTN Central Office.
Mobile Telephone System - The Mobile Telephone System was one of the earliest mobile telephone standards.
Mobile ticketing - 1. Mobile ticketing is the process whereby customers can order, pay for, obtain and validate tickets from any location and at any time using mobile phones or other mobile handsets.
Mobile virtual network operator - A mobile virtual network operator is a company that provides mobile phone services but does not have its own licensed frequency allocation of radio spectrum, nor does it necessarily have all of ...
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Mobile virtual private network - A mobile virtual private network provides mobile devices with access to network resources and software applications on their home network, when they connect via other wireless or wired networks.
Mobile workflow - Mobile Workflows can be defined as specialized Workflows aimed to address deployment of workflows in mobile device infrastructure enabling automation of process interaction with traditional busi...
Mobile-to-mobile convergence - The term mobile to mobile calling is used in many mobile phone plans to refer to making calls to other mobile phones using the same provider's network--which is often cheaper than other calls.
Mobile.info - Mobile.Info is a technical platform for the distribution of traffic information and other location-coded services.
Mobispine - Mobispine a Value Added Services company, provides services for operators and end-users.
Modu - Modu is a concept of a modular phone which is both a standalone phone and also the core of a range of variety of terminal devices.
Motorola Pageboy - Motorola Pageboy Was the second pager ever produced by Motorola with individual-unit addressing, after the less known 1955 Pager called "Handie-Talkie Radio Pocket Pager".
Motricity - Motricity was formed in 2001 by Ryan Wuerch to provide integrated mobile content solutions for handheld and mobile devices.
MSRN - MSRN - Mobile Station Roaming Number The Mobile Station Roaming Number is an E.164 defined telephone number used to route telephone calls in a mobile network from a GMSC to the target MSC.
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Multi-factor authentication - Multi-factor authentication is an extension of two-factor authentication.
Multiuser detection - Multiuser detection is one of the receiver design technology for detecting desired signal from interference and noise.
MVDS - MVDS is an acronym for terrestrial Multipoint Video Distribution System.
Navizon - Navizon is a hybrid positioning system combining GPS, Wi-Fi and Cellular triangulation techniques.
Near-field magnetic induction communication - A near field magnetic induction communication system is a short range wireless physical layer that communicates by coupling a tight, low-power, non-propagating magnetic field between devices.
Network on Terminal Architecture - Network on Terminal Architecture is a modular service based system architecture for mobile and embedded devices.
Non Access Stratum - Non Access Stratum is a functional layer in the Wireless Telecom protocol stack between Core Network and User Equipment.
Number Assignment Module - Number Assignment Module - The NAM is the electronic memory in the cellular phone that stores the telephone number and an Electronic Serial Number.
Online charging system - Online charging system is a system allowing communication service providers to charge their customers, in real time, based on service usage ====Online Charging Functions==== =====Event Based C...
Open Handset Alliance - The Open Handset Alliance is a business alliance of 65 firms for developing open standards for mobile devices.
ORFS - ORFS stands for Output RF Spectrum, where RF stands for Radio Frequency.
Outalot - Outalot is a Web 2.0 and Mobile Web service that provides a social networking, user review, and local search of restaurants, movies, and stores.
Over-the-air programming - Over-the-air programming may refer to either free-to-air, digital television, or in the mobile content world, over-the-air service provisioning, over-the-air provisioning or over-...
P2000 (network) - P2000 is a one-way communications network for pagers based on Motorola's FLEX-protocol in the Netherlands.
PacketVideo - PacketVideo Corporation or PV is a San Diego-based company that produces software for wireless multimedia, including the display of video on mobile handsets.
PCS switching center - PCS switching center: In personal communications service, a facility that supports access-independent call control/service control, and connection control functions, and is responsible for inte...
Peer-to-peer video sharing - Peer-to-peer video sharing is a basic service on top of the IP Multimedia Subsystem.
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Personal Communications Service - Personal Communications Service or PCS is the name for the 1900 MHz radio band used for digital mobile phone services in Canada, Mexico and the United States.
Phizzle - Phizzle is a mobile marketing technology platform that allows its users to connect with their audiences via mobile interactivity.
Picket-fencing - Picket fencing is slang for the chopping effect sometimes heard by cell phone users at the edge of a cell's coverage area, or by the landline user to whom the cellphone is connected.
Picocell - A picocell is a wireless communication system typically covering a small area, such as in-building, or more recently in-aircraft.
Positioning (telecommunications) - Mobile positioningrefers to technology used by telecommunication companies to approximate the location of a mobile phone, and thereby also its user.
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Predictive text - Predictive text is an input technology most commonly used on mobile phones, and for accessibility.
Proximity marketing - Proximity marketing is the localized wireless distribution of advertising content associated with a particular place.
Public land mobile network - A public land mobile network is a United States federal regulatory term in telecommunications.
PuppetMaster (application) - PuppetMaster is an application for Windows and mobile which enables the mobile phone to be used as a universal remote control for Microsoft Windows.
Push Proxy Gateway - A Push Proxy Gateway is a component of WAP Gateways that pushes URL notifications to mobile handsets.
Radio Interface Layer - A Radio Interface Layer is a layer in an operating system which provides an interface to the hardware's radio and modem on e.g. a mobile phone.
Radiotelephone - A radiotelephone is a communications device that allows two or more people to talk using radio.
ReCellular, Inc. - ReCellular, Inc. is the world's largest recycler and reseller of cell phones.
ReFLEX - ReFLEX is a wireless protocol developed by Motorola which is used for two-way paging.
Rich Communication Suite - Rich Communication Suite is an industry effort focused on the use of IMS for providing mobile phone communication services.
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RingGo - RingGo is a mobile phone parking service currently offered in public car parks and on-street locations in the United Kingdom.
Roaming - In wireless telecommunications, roaming is a general term referring to the extension of connectivity service in a location that is different from the home location where the service was registered.
RTMI - RTMI was the first mobile communication service in Italy, started in 1973.
S-GPS - Simultaneous GPS or S-GPS is a method to enhance a mobile phone's satellite-based position reporting ability to a carrier.
Sha-Mail - Sha-Mail is a kind of mailing service of J-Phone.
ShapeWriter - ShapeWriter, is a keyboard text input method for tablet, handheld PCs, and mobile phones invented by Shumin Zhai and Per Ola Kristensson at IBM Almaden Research Center and the Department of Comp...
Short code - Short codes are special telephone numbers, significantly shorter than full telephone numbers, that can be used to address SMS and MMS messages from mobile phones or fixed phones.
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Short message peer-to-peer protocol - The Short Message Peer-to-Peer protocol is a telecommunications industry protocol for exchanging SMS messages between SMS peer entities such as short message service centers and/or External Shor...
Short message service center - A Short Message Service Center is a network element in the mobile telephone network which delivers SMS messages.
Signal strength - In telecommunications, particularly in radio, signal strength refers to the magnitude of the electric field at a reference point that is a significant distance from the transmitting antenna.
Slideit - SlideIT is a text input method for touchscreen devices developed by Dasur Ltd. SlideIT is a way to enter text into touch screen mobile phones.
Smart pipe - With regards to a mobile network operator, the term smart pipe refers to an operator’s network which leverages existing or unique service capabilities as well as the operator’s own customer rela...
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SMS banking - SMS banking is a technology-enabled service offering from banks to its customers, permitting them to operate selected banking services over their mobile phones using SMS messaging.
SMS hubbing - SMS hubbing is a new structure for the international flow of SMS between operators, reshaping the way that international mobile inter-operability works by implementing hubs to intermediate the S...
SMS spoofing - SMS spoofing is a relatively new technology which uses the short message service, available on most mobile phones and personal digital assistants, to set who the message appears to come from by ...
Social positioning method - The social positioning method studies space-time behaviour by analysing the location coordinates of mobile phones and the social characteristics of the people carrying them.
Soft handover - Soft handover or soft handoff refers to a feature used by the CDMA and WCDMA standards, where a cell phone is simultaneously connected to two or more cells during a call.
Solaris Mobile - Solaris Mobile is a joint venture company between SES Astra and Eutelsat Communications to develop and commercialize the first geostationary satellite systems in Europe for broadcasting video, r...
Sony Watchman - The Sony Watchman is a line of portable pocket televisions trademarked and produced by Sony.
Swype - Swype is an input method for touchscreens developed by Swype Inc. Swype was first commercially available on the Samsung Omnia II.
T9 (predictive text) - T9, which stands for Text on 9 keys, is a patented predictive text technology for mobile phones, originally developed by Tegic Communications, now part of Nuance Communications.
Taptu - Taptu is a company which created a mobile search service of the same name aimed at mobile and hand-held devices such as smartphones and PDAs. Taptu is a privately held company that was founded i...
Telelocator Alphanumeric Protocol - Telelocator Alphanumeric Protocol is a protocol for submitting requests to a cellular or pager service as a numeric or alphanumeric message.
Tethering - Tethering is the use of a mobile device such as a mobile phone to supply Internet access for another device which is otherwise unconnected, using the mobile device as a modem.
Thumbcast - Thumbcast is a term used for the mobile delivery of text, picture, audio, or video content via short message service, multimedia messaging service, WAP push, or other mobile distribution mechanism.
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TouchPal - TouchPal is an alternative software input method for mobile devices, designed and developed by CooTek.
Tower Mounted Amplifier - A Tower Mounted Amplifier or Mast Head Amplifier is a Low-noise amplifier mounted as close as practical to the antenna in mobile masts or Base Transceiver Stations.
Transatel - Transatel has been founded in August 2000.
Tri-cell - Tri-cell is one of several location based services technologies that are used to locate or track the location of a mobile phone.
U-blox - u-blox is a fabless semiconductor provider of embedded positioning and wireless communication solutions for the consumer, industrial and automotive markets.
Universal Handy Interface - Universal Handy Interface is a Motorola designed universal interface for mobile phone use in Mercedes-Benz cars.
Upsnap - Upsnap is the name of both a mobile-oriented search engine and the company that runs the search engine.
Video share - Video Share is an IP Multimedia System enabled service for mobile networks that allows users engaged in a circuit switch voice call to add a unidirectional video streaming session over the packe...
W-SIM - W-SIM is a SIM card developed by Willcom which, in addition to standard SIM functions, also has the core components of a cellular telephone, such as the radio receiver/transmitter, built inside.
WidSets - WidSets is a mobile runtime technology, and a mobile service powered by the said technology, based on the Java MIDP 2.0 platform, from the Finnish mobile company Nokia.
Wireless Informatics - Wireless Informatics describes the evolution of traditional customer support practices within the mobile industry from problem management to problem prevention.
World Mobile Congress - World Mobile Congress aka Mobile World Congress is a global technology and R&D platform to foster international collaboration in next generation mobile wireless communications.
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