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Glossary
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HIPAA
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(Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act of 1996, Public Law 104-191) Also known as the "Kennedy-Kassebaum Act," this U.S. law protects employees' health insurance coverage when they change or lose their jobs (Title I) and provides standards for patient health, administrative and financial data interchange (Title II). The latter also governs the privacy and security of health information records and transactions. HIPAA, developed by the Department of Health and Human Services, took effect in 2001 with compliance required in phases up to 2004.
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HLR
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Home Location Register
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HRM
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Human Resource Management
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HSCSD
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High-Speed Circuit-Switched Data
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HSDPA
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High Speed Downlink Packet Access
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HTML
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Hypertext Mark-up Language
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HTTP
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Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
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HTTPS
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HTTP over SSL (secure socket layer)
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ICANN
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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
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ICT
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Information and Communication Technologies. ICT includes networks, computers, other data processing and transmitting equipment, and software. The application of ICT in business processes leads to e-business, if non-proprietary networks are used.
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IDC
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International Data Corporation
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IEEE
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(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. Founded in 1963, it has more than 360,000 individual members in more than 150 countries and is involved with setting standards for computers and communications.
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IETF
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Internet Engineering Task Force
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IMEI
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International Mobile Equipment Identity
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IMS
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IP Multimedia Subsystem
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Information security
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Measures taken to protect information systems against unauthorized use and attacks.
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Internet
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The largest network in the world. It is made up of more than 350 million computers in more than 100 countries covering commercial, academic and government endeavors. Originally developed for the U.S. military, the Internet became widely used for academic and commercial research. Users had access to unpublished data and journals on a variety of subjects. Today, the "Net" has become commercialized into a worldwide information highway, providing data and commentary on every subject and product on earth.
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Interoperability
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The technical features of a group of interconnected systems (includes equipment owned and operated by the customer, which is attached to the public telecommunication network), which ensure end-to-end provision of a given service in a consistent and predictable way.
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Intranet
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An internal internet, that is an internal network running, using TCP/IP, which makes information available within the company. Most intranets are connected to the internet, and use firewalls to prevent unauthorised access.
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IP
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Internet Protocol
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IPS
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Internet Payment System
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IPTV
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(Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet. In order to receive and decode the images in realtime, the user requires either an IPTV set-top box or a computer and software-based media player.
IPTV enables a data-voice-video "triple play" service to be based entirely on IP because Internet access, voice over IP (VoIP) and IPTV all use the same IP packet format. To compete with cable TV, the telephone companies have taken the lead with IPTV over DSL lines. Rather than tune into one of many video channels being transmitted simultaneously over cable TV, IPTV users request a particular channel, which is routed to the user like every resource on the Internet.
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IPv6
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Internet Protocol Version 6
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ISDN
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Integrated Services Digital Network. An international telecommunications standard for transmission of voice and data over dial-up lines, running at 64 Kbit/s (kilobits per second). It allows sharing of multiple devices on a single line (e.g., phone, computer and fax).
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ISP
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An Internet Service Provider (ISP) is a company or organization that provides Internet access to the public or to other organizations, usually for a fee. Most offer a full set of Internet services (access to e-mail, newsgroups, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and Telnet, at a minimum) for either an hourly rate or for a flat fee for a fixed number of hours of access.
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ISV
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(Independent Software Vendor) A person or company that develops software. It implies an organization that specializes in software only and is not part of a computer systems or hardware manufacturer. ISVs generally create application software rather than system software such as operating systems and database management systems.
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IT
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Internet Technology
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ITU
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International Telecommunications Union
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IXP
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Internet Exchange Point. An Internet Exchange Point is a physical infrastructure that allows different Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to exchange Internet traffic between their autonomous systems by means of mutual peering agreements. IXPs are typically used by ISPs to reduce dependency on their respective upstream providers; furthermore, they are used to increase efficiency and fault-tolerance.
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