The Internet Encyclopedia (Volume 3)

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INDEX 923

Messaging:

future technologies for,V1:667–669

mobile and wireless,V2: 72

services,V1:208;V3: 824

synchronous and asynchronous,V1: 661

Metacatalogs,V1:124, 128

Metadata,V1:519–520, 524, 705;V2: 485

encoding,V3: 693

OLAP,V2: 690

types of,V1: 418

Metadata schemes, Web content

management and,V3:691–692

Metadirectory products,V1: 503

Meta elements,V2:131–132

Metalanguage,V2: 125

Metasearch engines,V3:204, 733

technology of,V3:744 –752

Meta tags,V2:786;V3:452– 453

MetaText,V2: 478

Methods,V1: 23

JavaBean,V2:390 –391

Metrics, customer relationship

management and,V1:323.See also

Performance metrics

Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs),

V1:184, 261;V3:776 –791

history of,V3:776 –778

infrastructure of,V3:778–781

international differences in,

V3: 780

management for,V3: 780

providers and services associated with,

V3:788–790

switching, routing, and signaling in,

V3:781–788

Microcomputers,V1:232;V3: 25

maintaining,V1: 240

Micromarketing,V2: 571

MicroMint,V3: 763

Micropayments,V1:293, 644, 627, 631,

643;V3:762–763

Micropurchases,V1: 137

Microsoft:

antitrust investigations of,V1: 488

password issues related to,V3:8–9

Microsoft Animation Button Control,

V1: 13

Microsoft browsers,V1: 745

Microsoft Data Access Components

(MDAC),V1:26, 34

Microsoft data islands, using to display

XML data,V1: 747

Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN),

V1: 12

Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC),

V1: 19

library of,V3:637–638

Microsoft FrontPage 2002,V1:17, 18

Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL),

V1:6, 10

Microsoft Management Console (MMC),

V2:546;V3: 799

Microsoft Messenger,V1: 667

Microsoft .NET,V3:759.See also.NET

entries

Microsoft Network (MSN),V2: 307

Microsoft Outlook mailer,V1: 249

Microsoft parsers,V1: 739

Microsoft Passport service,V1:51,

496 – 497

Microsoft Power Point accessibility

plug-in,V3: 490

Microsoft Visual Studio Visual Basic,

V1:18–19

Microsoft XML (MSXML), parsing

example using,V1:741–743.See also

MSXML entries

Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX),V2: 340

Middle East:

e-business in,V1: 811

Internet diffusion in,V2:41– 43

Middle-tier architectures,V2: 605

Middleware,V1:197–198, 202, 227;

V2:603–613

architectures for,V2:604 –605

database connectivity,V1: 111

enhanced TV and,V1: 700

enterprise,V3: 394

message-oriented,V1:112, 118, 198;

V2:607–608

technology overview for,V2:605–611

transaction-oriented,V2:610 –611

trends in,V2:611–612

Web quality of service and,V3:714 –715

XML-oriented,V1: 113

MID/MIDI audio file format,V1:823, 829

Military, e-procurement by,V1:655–656.

See alsoMILNET

Millicent micropayment system,V1:643;

V3:762–763

MILNET,V2: 119

Minicomputers, advent of,V1: 37

Ministry, online,V2:805–806

Minitels,V1: 602

MINIX kernel,V2:492– 493

Min-max replenishment rule,V2: 372

Minors, objectionable Internet material

and,V1:310.See alsoChild entries;

Children entries

Mirrored sites,V1: 544

Mirroring, remote,V1:543, 544 –545

Misinformation, on the Internet,V3: 209

Misrepresentation fraud,V1: 331

Misuse detection,V2:360 –363

automatic model building for,V2: 362

limitations of,V2: 363

Mitnick, Kevin “the Condor,”V1: 353

Mixed integer programming,V3: 393

Mixed mode domains,V3: 793

M-marketing, strategies for,V3: 854

Mnemonics, computer languages as,

V1: 165

Mobile access, to data resources,

V3:805–807

Mobile Agent-based Internet Commerce

System (MAGICS),V1: 291

Mobile agents,V1:291, 292

virtual enterprises and,V3: 575

Mobile commerce (m-commerce),

V1:281, 607;V2:614 –626.See also

M-commerce

applications of,V2:617–618

defined,V2:615–618

future of,V2:624 –625

landscape of,V2:622–624

technology foundations of,V2:618–622

topics in,V2: 615

value proposition of,V2:616 –617

versus electronic commerce,V2:615–616

Mobile communication systems,V1: 292

Mobile computing,V2:627–629.

See alsoMobile devices

future of,V3: 815

Mobile data services,V3:824 –825

Mobile devices,V2:627–634.See also

Mobile computing

in e-commerce,V2:628–629

history of,V2: 627

smart phones,V2:631–632

styles of,V2: 627

types of,V2:629–632

versus nonmobile devices,V2: 627

wireless protocols and,V2:632–633

Mobile e-commerce protocols,

V3:326 –327

Mobile e-mail,V1:667–668

Mobile Equipment (ME),V2:621–622

Mobile Internet,V3:831–832, 845–847.

See alsoInternet entries; Online

entries; Wireless Internet; World Wide

Web (WWW)

Mobile IP (MIP),V2:259;V3:428– 429,

839–840

Mobile marketing communication,

V2: 571

Mobile messaging,V2: 72

Mobile networks:

customer relationship management over,

V3: 551

users of,V2: 548

Mobile Number Portability (MNP),

V3: 854

Mobile operating systems,V2:635–641

computing architectures for,V2:635–636

in future of mobile computing,

V2:639–641

types of,V2:636 –639

Mobile payments,V1:642–643

Mobile shopping,V1: 607

Mobile sites,V1: 544

Mobile TCP (M-TCP),V3: 841

Mobile technologies, tourism and,V3: 467

Mobile telephones, micropayments and,

V1: 631

Mobile/wireless communication devices,

V1: 662

Mobile wireless e-commerce, fuzzy,

V1: 848

MobShop group-buying site,V1: 132

Models, biometric,V1:81.See also

Application service model; Auction

business model; Box model; Business

models; Component Object Model

entries; Color models; Data models;

Document Object Model (DOM);

E-commerce models; Internal business

models; Mathematical models; OSI

reference model; Pricing models;

Retail business model; Statistical

modeling; TCP/IP model

Modems,V2:116, 298–300

cable,V3:170 –171

voice-grade,V3: 169

Modularity, ASP.NET,V1:6–7

Modulation,V1:461– 463, 466

linear and nonlinear,V1: 461

memoryless,V1: 461

multicarrier,V1: 463

Module “Socket,”V3:48– 49

Mojo Nation,V3:30 –31