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Handwriting recognition systems use pattern matching to convert handwritten letters into corresponding computer text or commands in real time. Batch recognition of handwritten forms is already embedded into mainstream form sorting and processing systems (for example, for mail and check handling, and other types of financial applications and transactions), and it is not included in this analysis. Digital pens also use handwriting recognition and are covered in a separate technology analysis.
Industry:Technology
Process of transferring a mobile telephone call from one cell to another without dropping the call. Cellular users may traverse several cells during a conversation, sometimes requiring a high-speed handoff in a moving vehicle. A soft handoff entails establishing a second radio link with the mobile device before the first link is severed.
Industry:Technology
Device- and network-independent language developed by Openwave for Web programming on a handheld device with limited memory and display, such as a cellular phone.
Industry:Technology
Specified period of time used to separate transmissions so that they do not interfere with each other. In IEEE 802.11n, the guard interval has been reduced from 800 ns to 400 ns to boost the throughput. Also used in TDMA transmissions. See also 802.11n and TDMA.
Industry:Technology
Software that supports interpersonal processes and the objects with which people commonly work. Groupware was originally coined to describe a new class of applications designed to provide electronic support for groups of individuals working together toward a common goal. The term has been applied to applications ranging from unstructured electronic mail to rigorously structured workflow systems. Groupware is more useful as a concept when it is broken down into three major stages: communication, coordination and cooperation. In this light, groupware applications can be viewed in terms of the degree of structure in the group interaction and in the complexity of that structure, and the rigor with which the activity itself is monitored.
Industry:Technology
Group buying is a type of social commerce in which an offer is made by an organization using socially based techniques and capabilities to potential customers. However, the offers are contingent on a certain number of buyers partaking in the offers, as well as other participation conditions.
Industry:Technology
All earth stations and network operation centers on the ground that comprise a particular satellite communications system or network. The ground segment can be connected to an end user’s equipment directly or over a terrestrial network.
Industry:Technology
Total number of new connections to a network in a given year.
Industry:Technology
Gartner defines grid computing as a method for applying large numbers of resources, usually large amounts of processing capacity, to a single task, by applying resources from more than one system. A grid is a collection of resources that’s coordinated to enable the resources to solve a common problem. A computing grid harnesses multiple computers from several owners to run one very large application problem.
Industry:Technology
Green money is a medium of exchange used to fund and support ecological endeavors in promotion of the environmental economy.
Industry:Technology
