Glossary

Glossary of terms related to Microsoft Exchange and Mobile Messaging

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Global Address List

The Global Address List is the master directory on an Exchange Server with entries for every Exchange User, Group and Contact on the server.

Global Catalog

A Global Catalog is a global data repository of every object on a network that uses Microsoft's Active Directory technology. Microsoft Exchange data is part of the Global Catalog when the Exchange Server is part of the Active Directory structure.

Gmail

Gmail is a free web hosted email service offered by Google. Google also offers a Croproate Gmail solution that lets companies use their own domain name with Google's email interface.

Goodlink

Goodlink is a service offered by Good Technology, which is owned by Motorola. Its a system for managing mobile devices across a company, and providing secure mobile messaging. Goodlink Server provides many of the same features as Blackberry Enterprise Server, but on a variety of phone platforms including Windows Mobile, Symbian and Google Android.

Google Android

Android is a mobile phone operating system based on UNIX/Linux created by Google. It is meant to compete with Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Apple iPhone OS, WebOS for the Palm Pre and Symbian. Phones running Android are built by HTC and a number of other vendors and offered by T-Mobile in the US.

Google Talk

Google Talk is a Voice Over IP (VOIP) application that lets users make and receive calls outside the normal PSTN. Mobile users can access Google Voice through applications available for the Android and Blackberry operating systems.

GPS

GPS is an acronym for the Global Positioning System which is a series of satellites in orbit around the earth that transmit a signal that lets a GPS-enabled device locate itself with a high degree of accuracy. Modern mobile phones incorporate GPS capabilities and many applications, including mobile messaging, are being built to take advantage of these new capabilities.

Gramm Leach Bliley Act

Also abbreviated as the GLBA, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act, enacted November 12, 1999 is a US federal lat that repealed part of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933. The effect of the GLBA was opening up competition among banks, securities companies and insurance companies. The Glass-Steagall Act prohibited a bank from offering investment, commercial banking, and insurance services. The legislation also has strict privacy and personal data protection requirements that financial firms must adhere to.

Graphical User Interface

A graphical user interface is the set of visual standards, buttons, text fields, text, and other visual, on-screen elements that a user manipulates to give instructions to a computer and to get responses to those instructions. Graphical user interfaces often use standards defined by their operating system, but may also user their own. Unique websites are considered to have their own graphical user interface.

Groupware

Groupware is a generic name for a centralized collaboration and communications system. These often include email, schedule, task, project and instant messaging capabilities. Microsoft Exchange is a groupware server.

Groupwise

Groupwise is a popular enterprise groupware product offered by the Novell corporation.

GSM

GSM is an Acronym for Global System for Mobile communications. It is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. It's promoter, the GSM Association, estimates that 82% of the global mobile market uses the standard. Phones in the US called out as Tri Band or Quad Band include the GSM standard.

GUI

See Graphical User Interface