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| 3G |
Third generation mobile communication systems – Scheduled for
operational startup in Japan and Europe between 2001 and 2002.
Applying high-speed data transfer and state-of-the-art radio terminal
technology, third generation systems enable multimedia and are
currently in the process of being standardized under a third generation
partnership project. |
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| Tailored Chip |
A chip whose characteristics have been set for the handling
of a specific set of application or job requirements. |
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| t-commerce |
Telephone commerce – The ability to buy and sell products and
conduct payments using telephony. |
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| Telephone Card |
A card issued by a telephone company for the payment of telephone
calls. This card maybe a prepaid card, a credit card, or one that
adds the cost of the call to the standard telephone bill. |
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| Telephony |
The technology associated with the electronic transmission of
voice, fax or other information between different parties. Internet
telephony is the use of the Internet, rather than the traditional
telephone company infrastructure to exchange spoken or other telephone
information. |
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| Thermal Transfer Printer |
A printer that forms character images by local heating of specially
sensitized paper. The most common types of matrix printers working
by electrical discharge from wires in the print head. |
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| Touch Screen |
An interactive visual display device with which the user interacts
by touching the screen to select options from a displayed menu.
Touch screens work by sensing the position of the finger using
infrared sensors located in the screen surround. |
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| Track 1 (T1) |
An ISO - defined read-only track on the magnetic stripe that
has high-density and may contain alphanumeric characters. |
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| Track 2 (T2) |
An ISO-defined read-only track on the magnetic stripe that has
low-density and may only numeric characters. |
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| Track 3 (T3) |
An ISO-defined track on the magnetic stripe that has high-density
may only contain alphanumeric characters, that allows rewriting
of certain data elements contained in the track. |
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| Transaction |
A business or payment event for the exchange of value for goods
or services. |
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| Transaction acquirer |
Institution that collects the data relating to a financial transaction
from the card acceptor for settlement purposes. |
ISO |
| Transaction Certification |
Process providing cryptographic proof of the origin and integrity
of transaction data which can be verified by a third party. |
ISO |
| Transaction Certification Code |
Result of the transformation certification process producing
an electronic signature, which could be either a MAC (based on
a symmetrical algorithm) or a digital signature (based on an asymmetric
algorithm). |
ISO |
| Transistor |
A discrete electronic component whose use preceded chip-based
devices. |
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