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m-commerce

Mobile commerce is the buying and selling of goods and services through wireless handheld devices such as cellular telephone and personal digital assistants (PDAs).

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MAC address

Media Access Control address is a hardware address that uniquely identifies each node of a network.

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Macintosh

The world first commonly available computer system featured Graphical User Interface, developed by Apple Computer and first launched in 1984.

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mbps

Mbps, short form of Mega-Bit per second, is the unit of measuring data transmission speed.

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MD5

MD5 is an algorithm that is used to verify data integrity through the creation of a 128-bit message digest from data input of any length.

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megabyte

Megabyte is a unit of amount of data storage. 1 megabyte = 1,048,576 bytes = 2^20 bytes

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memory

Memory is a basic component in a computer system use to record data.

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MFLOPS

MFLOPS, short form of Mega FLOPS, is a measure of how fast a computer system is.

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MHz

MHz, short form of Mega Hertz, is a measure of how fast a chip is.

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microprocessor

Microprocessor is a basic component of a computer system responsible for carrying out the logical operations, such as adding, subtracting and copying.

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Microsoft

A company which is one of the world's leading producer of computer software incorporated in 1981.

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middleware

Middleware is a software that connects two otherwise separate applications. In a multi-tier application design, it handles the user request and returns the result.

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MIDI

MIDI is short form of Musical Instrument Digital Interface. It is a standard which enables hardware to generate sound from a set of instructions for musical notes, tempo, and instrumentation.

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millisecond

A millisecond is 100th of a second.

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MIME

MIME is short form of Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. It is the standard of instructing the web browser what the type of incoming context is.

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MIPS

MIPS is short form of Mega-Instruction per Second. It is a measure of how fast a computer system by number of instructions it could execute in a second.

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modem

Modem is a device used to modulate and demodulate data into a channel. Commonly used modem is to send data via a telephone line.

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modulation

Modulation is the process of encoding digital data into analog signals for transmission.

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Moore's law

A prediction of Gordon Moore, the cofounder of Intel, which predicts the number of transistors on a microprocessor, would double approximately every 18 months.

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Mosaic

Mosaic is an application that simplifies accessing documents on the World Wide Web. It is originally produced by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

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motherboard

The main intergrate circuit board of a computer system. It generally contains the CPU, BIOS, memory, mass storage interfaces, serial and parallel ports, expansion slots, and all the controllers required to control standard peripheral devices.

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mouse

A pointing device that a computer user pushes across a desk surface in order to point to a place on a display screen and to select one or more actions to take from that position.

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MP3

MP3 is short form of MPEG audio layer 3. It is a compression standard for audio signal.

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MPEG

Short form of Moving Picture Experts Group. There are three major MPEG standards: MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.

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multicast

Multicast Transmits a single message to a select group of recipients, which could be email, video or audio streams.

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multiplex

Multiplex Incorperates several streams on low data rate input into a single high data rate output stream.

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