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technological abbreviations

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Some abbreviations that we hear, read, and use and we don't know what do they stand for?





GPRS

(General Packet Radio Service)



FM

(Frequency Modulation)



AM

(Amplitude Modulation)



IP

(Internet Protocol)



TCP/IP

(Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol)



ISP

(Internet Service Provider)



VHF

(Very High Frequency)



UHF

(Ultra High Frequency)



LCD

(Liquid-Crystal Display)



MPEG

(Moving Pictures Experts Group)



MP3

(MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3)



RAM

(Random Access Memory)



WAN

(Wide Area Network)



LAN

(Local Area Network)



3D

(3 Dimensional)



3G

(3rd Generation)



CD

(Compact Disc)



DVD

(Digital Versatile/Video Disc)



DVDR

(Recordable DVD)



DVDW

(Rewriteable DVD)



SMS

(Short Messaging Service)



MMS

(Multimedia Messaging Service)



IT

(Information Technology)



FAQ

(Frequently Asked Questions)



DSL

(Digital Subscriber Line)



IPO

(Initial Public Offerings)

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FBI

(Federal Bureau of Investigation)



CIA

(Central Intelligence Agency)



S.W.A.T

(Special Weapons and Tactics)



GMC

(General Motors Corporation)



BMW

(Bavarian Motor Works)



HP

(Hewlett-Packard)



WWW

(World Wide Web)



HTTP

(HyperText Transfer Protocol)



URL

(Uniform resource Locator)



HTML

(HyperText Markup Language)



WAP
(Wireless Application Protocol)



PDF

(Portable Document Format)



MIDI

(Musical Instruament Digital Interface)



3GP or 3GPP

(3rd Generation Partnership Project)



AMR

(Adaptive Multi-Rate)



USB

(Universal Serial Bus)



IQ

(Intelligence Quotient)



MSN

(MicroSoft Network)



CNN

(Cable News Network)



BBC

(British Broadcasting Corporation)



NBA

(National Basketball Association)



FIFA

(in french, Federation Internationale de Football Association)

(in english, International Federation of Association Football)



UEFA

(Union of European Football Association)





NASA

(National Aeronautics and Space Administration)



OPEC

(Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)



UN

(United Nations)



LNB

(Low Noise Block converter)