Network administrator
The person in an organization who is responsible for all network information.

Network card
A card that is plugged into a mobile device to connect to a local area network.

Outbox
A Messaging folder that holds e-mail messages and text messages before they are sent.

Outgoing e-mail server
The server that is used for storing and transporting messages that the user sends.

PAP authentication
The Password Authentication Protocol method for verifying the identity of a user who is attempting to log on to a Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) server.

Partnership
A relationship that is created between a mobile device and another Bluetooth device to help exchange information.

Password
The string of characters entered by a user to verify his or her identity to the network.

PC
A stationary desktop or laptop computer that is located usually at work and may be connected to a corporate server.

PC Card
A modem, network, or storage card that is plugged into a mobile device. This card conforms to the PCMCIA specification.

PC Link
A program on the mobile device that is used to initiate an infrared connection.

Personal certificate
A certificate that identifies an individual software user.

Personal identification number (PIN)
A unique code number assigned to the authorized user.

Personal information manager
Sometimes referred to as PIM. A program that stores and organizes information such as appointments, contacts, and tasks.

Point-to-Point Protocol
The set of rules and conventions that a mobile device uses to communicate with the Internet service provider's network server.

POP3
Post Office Protocol 3

RAS
Remote Access Service

RAS account
A network account that enables a mobile device to remotely access a network.

Recurrence
An appointment which has the property of occurring more than once in a regular pattern. This regular pattern is known as the recurrence pattern.

Remote Access Service
Software that is installed on network servers and enables remote access to a network server by using a modem attached to a device.

Remote connection
Any connection that connects a mobile device to a remote computer or network. Typically, a remote connection is established using a modem or network (Ethernet) connection.

Remote Networking
A communications program located on the mobile device used to create, store, and establish modem connections to remote computers and networks.

Resolve items
A process that enables viewing an item that could not be synchronized and, in some cases, deciding how to correct the error or conflict that is preventing synchronization.

Restore
The process of replacing information on a mobile device with information contained in a backup file.

S/MIME
Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions.

Screen saver
A moving picture or pattern that appears on the screen when the device is connected to a PC and has been idle for two minutes.

Serial cable
A cable provided by a manufacturer to connect a mobile device to a desktop computer through a COM port.

Server address
The name of a server that identifies the owner of that name in a hierarchical format.

Shorthand
A method of entering text using Transcriber.

Signature
Text that is appended to a message, identifying the sender.

SIM contact
A contact that is stored on the user's GSM Subscriber Identity Module (SIM).

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
A secure communications protocol.

SSL connection
A secure communications channel that prevents the interception of critical information, such as credit card numbers on the World Wide Web and other Internet services.

Storage card
Additional (external) storage on a device.

Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card
A smart card that stores a subscriber's personal identifier, billing information, and data.

Sync
Abbreviation for "synchronize".

Synchronize
Reconciles the differences between files, e-mail, appointments, and other items stored on one computer or device with versions of the same files on another computer. Once the differences are determined, both sets of items are updated.

Synchronization relationship
The settings that allow information to be synchronized, copied, or moved between the PC and the device.

Synchronization settings
The settings that determine the amount of information that is synchronized for each information type on a mobile device.

TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.

Terminal
A device connection to an online service or corporate server that requires TTY or VT-100 terminal emulation.

Terminal server
A computer that connects many modems to a local area network through one network connection. It answers the calls and passes the connections on to the appropriate network location.

Text message
A generic term for SMS messages.

TTY/TDD
A telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) is an electronic device for text communication via a telephone line, used when one or more of the parties has hearing or speech difficulties. Other names for TDD include TTY (telephone typewriter or teletypewriter, although TTY is also a term used for teletypes in general), textphone (Common in Europe and the UK), and minicom (United Kingdom).

Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
The address of a resource on a network. It conforms to the protocol://servername/resource syntax, where protocol is the name of the protocol used (such as http), servername is the name of the server, and resource is the directory path and file name of the resource. If a resource is not specified, a default one is often provided by the server.

Universal Serial Bus (USB)
An 11-megabits per second bus for computer and device peripherals. Requires one host controller and supports multiple connections.

Unresolved items
Items that cannot be synchronized due to synchronization conflicts.

USB
Universal serial bus

USB cable
A cable provided by a manufacturer to connect a mobile device to a desktop computer through a universal serial bus.

Voice mail
A system that records and stores telephone messages in a computer's memory.

Voice tag
A sound the user records to associate with a telephone number.

WAP
Wireless Application Protocol. A standard protocol for providing Internet communications and advanced telephony services on phones, pagers, PDAs, and other wireless terminals.

Wi-Fi
Acronym for wireless fidelity. Friendly name for the Wireless Ethernet (802.11) standard.

Windows Internet Name Service (WINS)
A Windows name resolution service for network basic input/output system (NetBIOS) names. WINS is used by hosts running NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NetBT) to register NetBIOS names and to resolve NetBIOS names to Internet Protocol (IP) addresses.

Windows Mobile (R)
A compact operating system combined with a suite of basic applications for mobile devices based on the Microsoft Win32 API.

Windows Mobile (R) software
The software running on Pocket PC and Smartphone.