Jargon Buster!

USB

Stands for Universal Serial Bus

A standard that defines a “Plug and Play"high speed serial interface, this allows you to connect a number of devices
For example printers,scanners,mice, MP3 players etc.

URL

Stands for Uniform Resource Locator

It’s a standard way in which WWW addresses are written

Made up of 3 parts
1) HTTP or FTP
2) The domain name - http://www.ctrlaltdeltraining.com
3) Directory of the file name
For example http://wwwctrlaltdeltraining.com/index.html

UMTS

stands for Universal Mobile Telecommunications System-  A third generation mobile communication system that supports voice data and video signals to the handset

UPS

Stands for uninterrupted power supply - this means the power supply can continue after any type of power failure by using a battery backup