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The entire spectrum of technologies for information processing, including software, hardware, communications technologies and related services. In general, information technology (IT) does not include embedded technologies that do not generate data for enterprise use.

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Industry body supporting and developing the UWB standard. The Alliance announced in March 2009 that it would be disbanded once it had transferred its specifications to the Bluetooth Special Interest ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

A collaborative authoring system for creating and maintaining linked collections of Web pages that enables users to add or change pages in a Web browser without having to worry about where and how ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

The provisional name for a 60 GHz in-room wireless technology which is being developed by a group of companies known as the Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WGA). The goals of WGA are to develop and ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) is the final version of WPA agreed on by the Wi-Fi Alliance; it implements all aspects of the ratified 802.11i security standard and is mandatory in the Wi-Fi ...

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Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is a security solution developed as a migration step toward 802.11i. Wi-Fi vendors introduced WPA in late 2002, before 802.11i was ratified. WPA formalized the choice for ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

Mesh topology network based on Wi-Fi standards but typically linked together by proprietary extensions. The Wi-Fi Alliance Task Group 802.11s is developing an IEEE standard for Wi-Fi mesh. See also ...

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

Non-profit international association formed in 1999 to certify interoperability of WLAN products based on IEEE 802.11 specification. See also WECA.

Domain: Technology; Category: Information technology

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