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Useful Acronyms and Abbreviations and Their Full Meaning

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 In everyday life, there are words we come across and yet, we have no idea of the full meaning.  We are usually confused with the words, whenever its meaning is required.  An understanding would add value to our day to day business and help us use the words we come across more effectively in whatever industry we find ourselves. Here is a list of some of them:
  1.  PAN Permanent Account Number.
  2.  PDF Portable Document Format.
  3. SIM Subscriber Identity Module.
  4.  ATM Automated Teller Machine.
  5. Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity.
  6. GOOGLE Global Organization Of Oriented Group Language Of Earth.
  7. . YAHOO Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.
  8. WINDOW Wide Interactive Network Development for Office work Solution.
  9.  COMPUTER Common Oriented Machine. Particularly United and used under Technical and Educational Research.
  10. VIRUS Vital Information Resources Under Siege.
  11.  UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System.
  12.  AMOLED Active-Matrix Organic Light- Emitting Diode.
  13.  OLED Organic Light-Emitting Diode.
  14. IMEI International Mobile Equipment Identity.
  15. ESN Electronic Serial Number.
  16. UPS Uninterruptible Power Supply.
  17. HDMI High-Definition Multimedia Interface.
  18.  VPN Virtual Private Network.
  19.  APN Access Point Name.
  20.  LED Light Emitting Diode.
  21.  DLNA Digital Living Network Alliance.
  22.  RAM Random Access Memory.
  23.  ROM Read-only memory.
  24. VGA Video Graphics Array.
  25.  QVGA Quarter Video Graphics Array.
  26.  WVGA Wide Video Graphics Array.
  27. WXGA Widescreen Extended Graphics Array.
  28. USB Universal Serial Bus.
  29.  WLAN Wireless Local Area Network.
  30.  PPI Pixels Per Inch.
  31.  LCD Liquid Crystal Display.
  32.  HSDPA High-Speed Downlink Packet Access.
  33.  HSUPA High-Speed Uplink Packet Access.
  34. HSPA High-Speed Packet Access.
  35.  GPRS General Packet Radio Service.
  36.  EDGE Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution.
  37.  NFC Near Field Communication.
  38.  OTG On-The-Go.
  39.  S-LCD Super Liquid Crystal Display.
  40.  O.S Operating System.
  41.  SNS Social Network Service.
  42.  H.S HOTSPOT.
  43. P.O.I Point Of Interest.
  44.  GPS Global Positioning System.
  45. DVD Digital Video Disk.
  46. DTP Desk Top Publishing.
  47.  DNSE Digital Natural Sound Engine.
  48.  OVI Ohio Video Intranet.
  49.  CDMA Code Division Multiple Access.
  50. WCDMA Wide-band Code Division Multiple Access.
  51.  GSM Global System for Mobile Communications.
  52. DIVX Digital Internet Video Access.
  53.  APK Authenticated Public Key.
  54.  J2ME Java 2 Micro Edition.
  55.  SIS Installation Source.
  56.  DELL Digital Electronic Link Library.
  57.  ACER Acquisition Collaboration Experimentation Reflection.
  58. RSS Really Simple Syndication.
  59. TFT Thin Film Transistor.
  60.  AMR Adaptive Multi-Rate.
  61.  MPEG Moving Pictures Experts Group.
  62. IVRS Interactive Voice Response System.
  63. HP Hewlett Packard
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