Acronyms

Technobabble Acronym Index

The following list is an index of acronyms from technology and other industries. What they have in common is that they all relate to
technology in some manner. Some of the acronyms have been written about here; these are linked to their "definition" article. The
rest will be written about in the future. Still other acronyms will be listed here in time. As such, this list is subject to change without
notice.

• AJAX - Asynchronous Javascript and XML
• CASPIAN - Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering - Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre (spychips.com)
• CGI - Common Gateway Interface
• CMS - Content Management System
• CPC - Cost Per Click
• CPM - Cost Per M (1000)
• CRT - Cathode Ray Tube
• CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
• DSLR - Digital SLR; SLR: Single Lens Reflex professional camera
• ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning
• GIF - Graphics Interchange Format
• GIS - Geographical Information System
• GPS - Global Positioning System
• HTTP - Hypertext
• ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
• IP - Internet Protocol
• ISP - Internet Service Provider
• ISO - International Standards Organization
• IM - Inventory Management
• JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group (file format also called JPG)
• LCD - Liquid Crysal Display
• LED - Light Emitting Diode
• NFC - Near Field Communications
• PDA - Personal Digital Assistant
• PDF - Portable Document Format
• PERL - Practical Extraction and Report Language
• PGP - Pretty Good Privacy
• PHP - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
• PNG - Portable Network Graphic
• RFI - Request for Information
• RFID - Radio Frequency Identification
• RFP - Request for Proposal
• RPC - Remote Procedure Call
• RSS - Really Simple Syndication/ Rich Site Summary
• RTLS - Real-Time Locating Systems
• SCM - Supply Chain Management
• SED - Service-Enabled Device
• SEM - Search Engine Marketing
• SEO - Search Engine Optimization
• SOA - Service-Oriented Architecture
• SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
• SQL - Structured Query Language
• SSI - Server-Side Include
• TLD - Top-Level Domain
• UML - Unified Modelling Language
• URI - Uniform Resource Locator (see URL)
• URL - Uniform Resource Locator
• VoIP - Voice over Internet Protocol
• WAP - Wireless Applicationi Protocol
• WiNG - Wireless Next Generation
• WML - Wireless Markup Language
• WMS - Warehouse Management Systems
• VGA - Video Graphics Array
• XML - eXtensible Markup Language