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940 INDEXUnited Nations Commission on
International Trade Law (UNCITRAL),
V2:58, 227–228
United Nations Commission on Science
and Technology for Development,
V1: 439
United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP),V1:440, 441;V2: 47
United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO),
V1: 65
United Nations Human Development
Report,V1:435, 436
United Parcel Service (UPS), Web services
of,V1: 5
United States.See alsoNon-U.S. patents;
USA entries; U.S. entries
e-government adoption in,V1:593–594
Internet censorship in,V2:266 –268
law enforcement agency Web sites in,
V2: 444
mobile penetration in,V3:851–853
patent law in,V3:14 –21
privacy laws in,V3:97–98
United States International Money
Laundering Abatement and Financial
Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001,V1: 349
“Unity List” hoax,V1: 333
Units, CSS,V1: 159
Universal Data Access (UDA),V1:25, 26,
34.See alsoUDA technology
Universal Description, Discovery, and
Integration (UDDI),V1:199, 495, 753
Universal Mobile Telecommunications
Systems (UMTS),V3: 824
Universal Resource Locaters (URLs),
V1:229–230, 497;V2: 252
absolute and relative,V1: 221
structure of,V1:219, 220
Universal selector,V1: 157
Universally accessible Web resources,
V3:477– 493
access to text descriptions,V3:479– 482
alternative views of the Web,V3: 478
authoring tool limitations and,V3: 489
digital divide,V3:477– 478
evaluation and repair tools,V3:487– 489
keyboard support and,V3:478– 479
Section 508 requirements and,
V3:486 – 487
for speech browsing,V3:482– 484
universal design and,V3:490 – 491
user styling of text,V3: 482
W3C Web content accessibility
guidelines,V3:484 – 486
University Corporation for Advanced
Internet Development (UCAID),
V2: 334
University of Michigan Making of America
collection,V1: 510
University of Virginia Electronic Text
Center,V1:509–510
Unix operating systems,V1:164, 174;
V2:7, 489– 490, 491– 492, 821–822;
V3:25–26, 494 –511
characteristics of,V3:499–501
command summary for,V3:505–506
commercialization of,V3:498– 499
core components of,V3:501–506
“free,”V2: 823history of,V3:494 – 499
password issues related to,V3: 8
structure of,V3:506 –508
viruses and worms and,V1:255–256
Unix philosophy,V3:34, 508–510
Unix “Talk,”V1: 665
Unix-to-Unix-Copy (UUCP),V1: 118
Unspecified Bit Rate (UBR),V3: 173
Unstructured documentation,V2: 441
Unstructured Supplementary Services
Data (USSD),V3: 824
Unzipping files,V2: 304
Upselling,V1:604 –605
URL rewriting,V2: 508
Usability:
design and,V3:517–521
evaluations,V2:146 –147
protocols,V3: 514
research,V2: 780
specialists,V2: 147
Usability testing,V3:512–524.See also
Communication entries; Internet
communications
ethical and legal considerations related
to,V3:516 –517
foundations of,V3:513–514
methodologies for,V3:514 –516
pitfalls associated with,V3: 517
reasons for,V3:512–513
reporting results of,V3:521–522
scenarios for,V3: 518
USA Patriot Act of 2001,V1:349, 364;
V2:221, 222, 225, 470;V3: 100
USA Todaysite,V2: 764
U.S. Copyright Office,V1:351.See also
United States entries
Usenet,V1:663;V2:69, 119, 303;V3: 202
User accounts,V2: 545
User agents,V1: 163
User community,V1: 423
User Datagram Protocol (UDP),V1:181,
200, 426, 433;V3:325, 431
security with,V2: 327
User-defined objects,V2: 409
User events,V1:446, 455
User groups, closed,V1: 606
User identification, mechanisms for,
V3: 55
User profiles,V3:51–53
for search engines,V3:743–744
User rights, W2K,V3: 803
User satisfaction, public relations and,
V2: 780
U.S. export laws,V2:237–238, 239–240
U.S. Navy, e-procurement by,V1: 646
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
(USPTO),V1:351;V2:462;
V3:449– 450, 457
U.S. Section 508 Web Electronic and
Information Technology Accessibility
Standards,V3:486 – 487
Utility Data Center, HP,V3: 765
Utility models,V1: 604
Utility software,V1: 238Vaccines,V1: 258
Validators,V1: 163
Valid XML,V1: 754
Value-Added Network (VAN),
V1:106 –107, 118, 622, 720Value-added services,V1: 189
for networks,V1:614 –615
Value-Added Tax (VAT),V3: 420
Value capture,V1: 485
Value chain,V1:216, 491;V3:388–389.
See alsoValue chain analysis
development,V3:530 –531
operating scenarios,V1: 214
perspectives on,V3: 526
wireless marketing and,V3: 854
Value chain analysis,V1:212;
V3:525–536.See alsoValue chain
business models and,V3:528–529
e-commerce and,V3:526 –528,
529–530
of small and medium-sized enterprises,
V3:534 –535
value chain examples for,V3:531–534
Value drivers,V1:672–673
Value networks,V2: 441
Value trust networks,V1: 676
Variable Bit Rate (VBR) traffic,V2:205;
V3:173, 544
Variables, WML,V3: 811
VB-Script,V3: 770
vCal data format,V1: 86
vCalendar standard,V3: 807
vCARD:
data format,V1: 86
standard,V3: 807
VCR technology,V1: 297
Vector animations,V2: 655
Vector editing,V2: 649
Vector quantization,V1:391–392
Vector still images,V2: 650
Vector-to-bitmap converters,V2: 651
VE model,V3:569–570.See alsoVirtual
enterprises (VEs)
Vendor catalogs/services, online,V2: 479
Vendor interoperability testing,V3: 249
Vendor mapping solutions, for XML,
V1: 749
Vendors:
ERP,V1: 716
NXD,V1: 752
shared-server,V3:703–704
Venture capital/funding,V1:102, 105
Venture Capitalists (VCs),V1:96, 97–98,
105
Verbal protocol analysis,V3: 516
Verification,V1:81, 531, 533
bibliographic,V2: 478
Verified by Visa (VbV) specification,
V3:255–258
Verifier authentication,V1:526 –527
Verisign,V1: 101
“Versioning,”V1: 322
Vertical Blanking Interval (VBI),V1: 705
Vertical e-marketplace,V1:680 –681
Vertical integration,V3: 410
Vertical markets,V1:120, 603, 650, 655,
658
ASPs (Application Service Providers) for,
V1: 38
Very High Bit DSL (VDSL),V2: 300
VE technologies,V3:570 –571
Video:
collaborative virtual reality and,V3: 595
in e-mail,V1: 665
hosting,V3: 564