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| WAN | Wide Area Network
Any internet or network that covers an area than a simple building or campus. |
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| WAP | Wireless Application Protocol is the connection standard for delivering information to wireless devices such as mobile phones and PDAs. |
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| Web Log | Blog, a contraction of ‘web’ and ‘log’, describes a website consisting of date-related entries (or posts). Blogs are typically of a personal nature, although their use by companies as a marketing tool is increasing. |
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| Web Mail | Web based e-mail is a software on a POP3 server that allows you the luxury, if desired, to access your POP accounts by simply using a web-browser. It allows users to send and receive emails via any web-browser by viewing an HTML web page. |
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| Web Page | A document designed for viewing in a web browser |
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| Website | An online brochure viewable through the internet |
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| Wiki | A wiki is a website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change some available content, sometimes without the need for registration A wiki enables documents to be written very collaboratively in a simple markup language using a browser. A single page in a wiki is referred to as a "wiki page", while the entire body of pages, which are usually highly interconnected via hyperlinks, is "the wiki"; in effect, a wiki is actually a very simple, easy-to-use user-maintained database for searching or even creating information. |
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| WML | Wireless Markup Language is the syntax used to describe information to be displayed on WAP devices (such as mobile phones and PDAs). |
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| WWW | World Wide Web (or simply web for short)
Is a term frequently used for the Internet |
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