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Most English-speaking people pronounce the 9-syllable letter sequence www used in some domain names for websites as "double U, double U, double U" despite shorter options like "triple double U", triple dub or even "World Wide Web" being available. Some languages do not have the letter w in their alphabet (for example, Italian), which leads some people to pronounce www as "vou, vou, vou." In some languages (such as Czech and Finnish) the w is substituted by a v, so Czechs pronounce www a ...

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In less than twenty years, mobile phones have gone from being rare and expensive pieces of equipment used by businesses to a pervasive low-cost personal item. In many countries, mobile phones now outnumber land-line telephones, with most adults and many children now owning mobile phones. It is not uncommon for young adults to simply own a mobile phone instead of a land-line for their residence. In some developing countries, where there is little existing fixed-line in ...

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Radio phones have a long and varied history that stretches back to the 1950s, with hand-held cellular radio devices being available since 1983. Due to their low establishment costs and rapid deployment, mobile phone networks have since spread rapidly throughout the world, outstripping the growth of fixed telephony. In most of Europe, wealthier parts of Asia and Latin America, Australia, Canada and the US, mobile phones are now widely used, with the majority of the adult, teenage, and even child population owning one. At present India ...

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Another significant advance in the technology was Sun Microsystems' Java programming language. It initially enabled Web servers to embed small programs (called applets) directly into the information being served, and these applets would run on the end-user's computer, allowing faster and richer user interaction. Eventually, it came to be more widely used as a tool for generating complex server-side content as it is requested. Java never gained as much acceptance as Sun had hoped as a platform for client-side applets for a variety of reasons, ...

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At its core, the Web is made up of three standards: the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), which is a universal system for referencing resources on the Web, such as Web pages; the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which specifies how the browser and server communicate with each other; and the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), used to define the structure and content of hypertext documents. Berners-Lee now heads the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which develops and maintains these and other standards that enable computers on the Web to effectively store ...

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When you want to access a web page, or other "resource", on the World Wide Web, you normally begin either by typing the URL of the page into your browser, or by following a hypertext link to that page or resource. The first step, behind the scenes, is for the server-name part of the URL to be resolved into an IP address by the global, distributed Internet database known as the Domain name system or DNS. The next step is for an HTTP request to be sent to the web server working at that IP address for the page required. In the case of a ...

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See also: History of the Internet The underlying ideas of the Web can be traced as far back as 1980, when Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau built ENQUIRE (referring to Enquire Within Upon Everything, a book Berners-Lee recalled from his youth). While it was rather different from the Web we use today, it contained many of the same core ideas (and even some of the ideas of Berners-Lee's next ...

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Windows Mobile 5.0, originally codenamed "Magneto", was released on May 9, 2005. It is powered by Windows CE 5.0 and uses the .NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP2 — an environment for programs based on .NET to be used. Features include: A new version of Office called "Office Mobile" PowerPoint Mobile has been added Excel Mobile adds graphing capability Word Mobile adds tables and graphics insertion Windows Media Player 10 Mobile Photo Caller ID Picture and Vide ...

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Qt is released by Trolltech on the following platforms: Qt/X11 — Qt for X Window System Qt/Mac — Qt for Apple Mac OS X Qt/Windows — Qt for Microsoft Windows Qt/Embedded — Qt for embedded platforms (PDA, Smartphone, ...) There are four editions of Qt available on each of these platforms, namely: Qt Console — edition for non-GUI development. Qt Desktop Light — entry level GUI edition, stripped o ...

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There are four principal means by which an end user using a telephone handset may connect to a telephone network: a traditional fixed phone "landline", which uses dedicated physical wire connections connected to a single location; wireless and radio telephones, which use either analog or digital radio signals; satellite telephones, which utilize telecommunications satellites; and voice over internet protocol (VoIP) telephones, which use broadband internet connections. Between end users, transmissions across a network may be carried by fiber optic cable, po ...

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Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition, also known as Windows Mobile 2003SE, was released on March 24, 2004 and first offered on the Dell Axim x30. It includes a number of improvements over its predecessor, such as: The option to switch from landscape to portrait screen layout. This is not available in the Smartphone version. Pocket Internet Explorer (otherwise known as PIE) includes the option to force a page into a single-column layout, making reading easier since one now only has to scroll vertically. VGA (640× ...

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Photon is the next major revision to the Windows Mobile platform. In December 2005, Microsoft announced that the Smartphone and Pocket PC platforms will be merged for this release. Microsoft has also indicated that this release is still fairly far off in the future. Nothing much is known about this OS yet, apart from special design improvements and greatly improved battery life. ...

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The second version, named Windows Mobile 2003, was released on June 23, 2003 and came in three editions. Two of these editions are similar: Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC and Windows Mobile 2003 for Pocket PC Phone Edition, which is designed especially for Pocket PCs which include phone functionalities (as HTC's Himalaya, distributed in many countries as Qtek, XDA, MDA or VPA). The third edition is named Windows Mobile 2003 for Smartphone, which — despite several similarities with Pocket PC — is a substanti ...

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Haavard Nord and Eirik Chambe-Eng (the original developers of Qt and the CEO and President of Trolltech respectively) began development of "Qt" in 1991, three years before the company was incorporated as Quasar Technologies, then changed the name to Troll Tech, and then to Trolltech. The toolkit was called Qt because the letter Q looked beautiful in Haavard's Emacs font, and T was inspired by Xt, the X toolkit. Controversy erupted around 1998 when it became clear that KDE was going to become one of the leading desktop environme ...

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While the term "wireless" means radio and can refer to any telephone that uses radio waves it is primarily used for cell phones. In the United States wireless companies tend to use the term wireless to refer to a wide range of services while the cell phone itself is called a mobile phone, mobile, cell phone or simply cell with the trend now moving towards mobile. The changes in terminology is partially due to providers using different terms in marketing to differentiate newer digital services from older anal ...

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The very early history of the telephone is a confusing morass of claim and counterclaim, which was not clarified by the huge mass of lawsuits which hoped to resolve the patent claims of individuals. There was a lot of money involved, particularly in the Bell Telephone companies, and the aggressive defense of the Bell patents resulted in much confusion. Additionally, the earliest investigators preferred publication in the popular press and demonstration to investors instead of scientific publication an ...

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Also known as Internet telephony or Voice over IP (VoIP), digital telephony is a disruptive technology that is rapidly replacing traditional telephone networks. In Japan and Korea up to 10% of subscribers, as of January 2005, have switched from analog to digital telephone service. A recent Newsweek article suggested that Internet telephony may be "the next big thing." [2] Digital telephones use a broadband Internet connection to transmit conversations as data packets. In addition to replacing the PSTN, digital telephony is also compet ...

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Trolltech released Qt 4 on June 28, 2005 and introduced five new technologies in the framework: Tulip A set of template container classes. Interview A model/view architecture for item views. Arthur A 2D painting framework. Scribe A Unicode text renderer with a public API for performing low-level text layout. MainWindow A modern action-based main window, toolbar, ...

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The embedded Linux OS for Motorola's smartphones is currently being developed at the company's Personal Communication Sector (PCS) in Beijing, China. NEC and Panasonic phones are for the FOMA 3G network in Japan. Motorola A760 — The first phone to use Linux. Motorola A780 Motorola E680 Motorola E680i Motorola E895 E2 E2800 NEC N901iC NEC N700i NEC N900il NEC N901iS Panasonic P700i Panasonic P901i Panasonic P901iS TCL e787 See also:

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Smartphone - FOMA non-UIQ. FOMA D901i FOMA D901iS FOMA F2051 FOMA F2102V FOMA F700i FOMA F880iES FOMA F900i FOMA F900iC FOMA F900iS FOMA F900iT Smartphone - Nokia Series 60. Lenovo P930 Nokia 3230 Nokia 3250 Nokia 3600 Nokia 3620 (GSM 850/1900 successor of the 3650) Nokia 3650 Nokia 3660 (GSM 900/1800/1900 successor of the 365 ...

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