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3G

G (or 3-G) is short for third-generation technology. It is usually used in the context of cell phones. The services associated with 3G provide the ability to transfer both voice data (a telephone call) and non-voice data (such as downloading information, exchanging email, and instant messaging)....

AJAX

Ajax (also known as AJAX), shorthand for "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML," is a web development technique for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web...

CRM

Customer relationship management (CRM) is a broad term that covers concepts used by organizations to manage their relationships with customers, including collecting, storing and analyzing customer information. Customer relationship management software is defined as business management and...

Compiere

Compiere is open source ERP and CRM software that provides a seamless 360-degree view of your company, its customers and vendors. For years only large corporations have been able to enjoy the benefits of ERP systems. Now, Compiere ERP and CRM puts the power of timely and consistent...

ERP

What is ERP? Enterprise resource planning software, or ERP, doesn’t live up to its acronym. The ERP true ambition is to attempt to integrate all departments and functions across a company onto a single computer system that can serve all those different departments’ particular needs. That is...

GPRS

GPRS – General Packet Radio Service General Packet Radio Services (GPRS) is a packet-based wireless communication service that promises data rates from 56 up to 114 Kbps and continuous connection to the Internet for mobile phone and computer users. The higher data rates allow users to take...

GPS

The Global Positioning System, usually called GPS, is the only fully-functional satellite navigation system. A constellation of more than two dozen GPS satellites broadcasts precise timing signals by radio to GPS receivers, allowing them to accurately determine their location (longitude,...

Geofencing

A geo-fence is an electronic boundary that a user can create to monitor trailer location and movement. Geo-fences may be created, viewed, and edited visually on an interactive map. The geo-fence may be assigned to a trailer or to groups of trailers. Once the geo-fence is set and configured to...

LCD

A liquid crystal display (LCD) is a thin, flat display device made up of any number of color or monochrome pixels arrayed in front of a light source or reflector. It is prized by engineers because it uses very small amounts of electric power, and is therefore suitable for use in battery-powered...

Megapixel

A megapixel is 1 million pixels, and is used not only for the number of pixels in an image, but also often to express the number of sensor elements of digital cameras or the number of display elements of digital displays. For example, a camera with an array of 2048×1536 sensor elements is...

PDA

Personal digital assistants (PDAs) are handheld computers that were originally designed as personal organizers, but became much more versatile over the years. PDAs are also known as pocket computers or palmtop computers. PDAs have many uses: calculation, use as a clock and calendar, playing...

RSS

RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts. Users of RSS content use software programs called "feed readers" or "feed aggregators". The user subscribes to a feed by entering a link to the feed into the reader...

SFA

Sales force management systems are information systems used in marketing and management that automate some sales and sales force management functions. They are frequently combined with a marketing information system, in which case they are often called customer relationship management systems. ...

Shutter

a mechanical device on a camera that opens and closes to control the time of a photographic exposure

Smarty

Smarty is a web template system written in PHP. Smarty separates PHP, as a business logic, from HTML, a presentation logic, and generates web content by the placement of special Smarty tags within a document (i.e. variable substitution). Tags are directives for Smarty that are enclosed by...

XHTML

The Extensible HyperText Markup Language, or XHTML, is a markup language that has the same depth of expression as HTML, but with a syntax that conforms to XML syntax. Whereas HTML is an application of SGML, a very flexible markup language, XHTML is an application of XML, a more restrictive...

longitude

Longitude, sometimes denoted by the Greek letter ?, describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. Longitude is given as an angular measurement ranging from 0° at the Prime Meridian to +180° eastward and ?180° westward. Unlike latitude,...

network

A digital circuit is based on a number of discrete voltage levels, usually two, as distinct from an analog circuit that uses continuous voltages to represent variables directly. Digital circuits are the most common mechanical representation of Boolean algebra and are the basis of all digital...

open source

Open source describes the principles and methodologies to promote open access to the production and design process for various goods, products, resources and technical conclusions or advice. The term is most commonly applied to the source code of software that is made available to the general...

tracking

A GPS tracking unit is a device that uses the Global Positioning System to determine the precise location of your company's vehicle or other asset to which it is attached and to record the position of the asset at regular intervals. Features Autovehicle route details (location history)...

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