[Ridbreezy]

MANY USE THESE ABBREVIATIONS WITHOUT KNOWING THEIR MEANING
1.) *GOOGLE* - Global Organization Of Oriented Group Language Of Earth.
2.) *YAHOO* - Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.
3.) *WINDOW* - Wide Interactive Network Development for Office work Solution.
4.) *COMPUTER* - Common Oriented Machine Particularly United and used under Technical and Educational Research.
5.) *VIRUS* - Vital Information Resources Under Siege.
6.) *UMTS* - Universal Mobile Telecommunicati ons System.
7.) *AMOLED* - Active-matrix organic light-emitting diode.
8.) *OLED* - Organic light-emitting diode.
9.) *IMEI* - International Mobile Equipment Identity.
10.) *ESN* - Electronic Serial Number.
11.) *UPS* - Uninterruptible power supply.
12. *HDMI* - High-Definition Multimedia Interface.
13.) *VPN* - Virtual private network.
14.) *APN* - Access Point Name.
15.) *SIM* - Subscriber Identity Module.
16.) *LED* - Light emitting diode.
17.) *DLNA* - Digital Living Network Alliance.
18.) *RAM* - Random access memory.
19.) *ROM* - Read only memory.
20.) *VGA* - Video Graphics Array.
21.) *QVGA* - Quarter Video Graphics Array.
22.) *WVGA* - Wide video graphics array.
23.) *WXGA* - Widescreen Extended Graphics Array.
24.) *USB* - Universal serial Bus.
25.) *WLAN* - Wireless Local Area Network.
26.) *PPI* - Pixels Per Inch.
27.) *LCD* - Liquid Crystal Display.
28.) *HSDPA* - High speed down-link packet access.
29.) *HSUPA* - High-Speed Uplink Packet Access.
30.) *HSPA* - High Speed Packet Access.
31.) *GPRS* - General Packet Radio Service.
32.) *EDGE* - Enhanced Data Rates for Globa Evolution.
33.) *NFC* - Near field communication.
34.) *OTG* - On-the-go.
35.) *S-LCD* - Super Liquid Crystal Display.
36.) *O.S* - Operating system.
37.) *SNS* - Social network service.
38.) *H.S* - HOTSPOT.
39.) *P.O.I* - Point of interest.
40.) *GPS* - Global Positioning System.
41.) *DVD* - Digital Video Disk.
42.) *DTP* - Desk top publishing.
43.) *DNSE* - Digital natural sound engine.
44.) *OVI* - Ohio Video Intranet.
45.) *CDMA* - Code Division Multiple Access.
46.) *WCDMA* - Wide-band Code Division Multiple Access.
47.) *GSM* - Global System for Mobile Communications.
48.) *WI-FI* - Wireless Fidelity.
49.) *DIVX* - Digital internet video access.
50.) *APK* - Authenticated public key.
51.) *J2ME* - Java 2 micro edition.
52.) *SIS* - Installation source.
53.) *DELL* - Digital electronic link library.
54.) *ACER* - Acquisition Collaboration Experimentation Reflection.
55.) *RSS* - Really simple syndication.
56.) *TFT* - Thin film transistor.
57.) *AMR*- Adaptive Multi-Rate.
58.) *MPEG* - moving pictures experts group.
59.) *IVRS* - Interactive Voice Response System.
60.) *HP* - Hewlett Packard.

[chikitta]

Wow you seem to be a guru in this computer business for you to have all this data in your mind. i can tell you that there are quite a number that i have been using but did not know what they meant thanks so much for sharing.

[Collinberg]

I never knew that most of those words are even acronyms,words such as Computer,Virus,Edge.. Thanks for enlightening me.

[CyberFreak]

Moved to a more suitable location

[germainebull]

I should confess I did not know 'Window' is an abbreviation. Thanks for enlightening me.

[srinumcl]

very useful information you give it sir. every one should know these abbreviations. most of us are without knowing these, we are using in our daily life....must learn about it...

[Angie10]

I never knew that most of those words are even acronyms,words such as Computer,Virus,Edge.. Thanks for enlightening me.

Hehe I'm glad I'm not the only one LOL I honestly didn't know a lot of these were acronyms! You really do something every day, don't you. Thanks for sharing @Ridbreezy

[germainebull]

5.) *VIRUS* - Vital Information Resources Under Siege.

Why am I finding it hard to believe that this is the correct long name for VIRUS? Is anyone willing to help me out?

[agape]

I have seen the acronym GSM being bandied about. What is it's full version?

[klabingk]

5.) *VIRUS* - Vital Information Resources Under Siege.

Why am I finding it hard to believe that this is the correct long name for VIRUS? Is anyone willing to help me out?

Right? It sounds silly, and I don't really see the point of it.

[Aveatrex]

Never though that "Google" had a meaning...that's news to me thank you for this share

[TeacherAngel]

Wow! I think the only ones that I know from your list are USB and HP.

[amitkokiladitya]

This was an awesome post. I love to read about abbreviations and this discussion had some many that were new to me.
Thanks for guiding me.

[germainebull]

18.) *RAM* - Random access memory.
19.) *ROM* - Read only memory.

I remember learning about these two when I was being introduced to computers in the early 2000's. Thanks for refreshing my memory.

[earthsalt]

4.) *COMPUTER* - Common Oriented Machine Particularly United and used under Technical and Educational Research.

Gosh! Do you mean the word COMPUTER is an acronym?
I have to confess I had no idea until now.