Talk+the+Talk--Terms

3G and 4G ¨ G=generation ¨ G1= analog phones ¨ G2=Digital phones ¨ G3=late 90s personal communicators ¨ G4=??

Int’l Telecommunications Union Radio Communication Sector is an organization for standardization. They have determined that real 4G has to 100 megabits per second from moving vehicle and 1Gbit from a fixed station like a home or base station antenna. We don't have anything that approximates that yet. So 4G doesn’t really exist; it's just a marketing-speak. So when you hear the phrase "xxxx, America's largest 4G network" it doesn't matter. The G doesn’t matter so much but these factors do

¨ How many users are there around ¨ How many booster stations ¨ How efficiently phone is using what is available

No doubt phones are getting more sophisticated. The 3G vs 4G debate is, by some accounts, a moot point. For a summary the 3G vs. 4G discussion, click the play button.media type="file" key="G Thing.m4a" width="300" height="50"

**1080p**--the number of pixels a TV screen can display

**black hats**--vandals see also gray hats and white hats

 **Blu-ray**--a DVD format that is supposed to eclipse the standard DVD format

 **CMS**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**Fro-yo**--Not the Ben & Jerry's variety. In geek world, Fro-yo is Google's codename for the Android 2.2 platform

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**gray hats**--computer users who are on the line neither vandals nor saints see also black hats and white hats

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> **HDTV**--a TV system that has more than the usual number of lines per frame; pictures show greater detail

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Hacker--originally a person with such an in-depth knowledge of computers that they can make computers do what wasn't intended. The media latched onto that term and now uses it to describe people who use their super skills for deleterious ends.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> **IMS**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**jailbreaking--**It's a process of running third-party applications on Apple products. The applications exploit an opening in Safari. Third-party applications are not supported by Apple Inc. and leave products open to system crashes and viruses. Jailbreaking is legal but it voids the warranty

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> **Megapixel**--a standard unit that measures digital image resolution

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> **MFD/MFP--Multifunction Devices/Printers:** a combination electronic gadget that may consist of any combination of a printer, facsimile machine, copier and scanner

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> **MMORG** (multiplayer online role-playing game) example Runescape

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> **MUVE** (Multi-user Virtual Environment)--

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> **Netbook**--a mini-laptop designed mostly for searching the Web

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**Net neutrality**—different pricing for online services <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Charging different prices for different content <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">One price for voice protocol services <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">One price for streaming <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">One price for video <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">One price for movies <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">One price for downloads

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> A proposed alternative is dedicated services for different content; each service would then have its own price

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> **Phishing**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> **SMS** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**Smishing**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> **Search Engine**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> **USB**--a way to link peripherals (printer, smartphones, drives) to your computer

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> **VLE**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> **VOiP**--phone service over the Internet

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">**Wardrivers**--folks who cruise neighborhoods sniffing out unsecured Wi-Fi networks, take whatever information they can

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> **Web Browser**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">**white hats**--computer good guys see hackers, white hats and gray hats

zombie cookies--tags companies put on your computers to identify you. You think you zapped the cookie only to find later on that it still exists. You think it's dead when it isn't

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