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• B-ISDN = Broadband-Integrated Services Digital Network
• B2B = Business-to-Business
• BAPI = Business Application Programming Interface
• Baseband = A computer networking techinque
• BASIC = Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
• BAT = Bandwidth Allocation Technology
• BBS = Bulletin Board System
• BCC = Blind Carbon Copy
• BCC = Block Check Character
• BCD = Binary Coded Decimal
• BDP = Bandwidth-delay Product
• BEDO RAM = Burst EDO RAM
• BeOS = Be, Inc. Operating System
• BG = Big Grin
• BGA = Ball-grid Array
• BGP = Border Gateway Protocol
• BICMOS = Bipolar Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
• Biometrics = Science of using one or more bodily characteristics
• BIOS = Basic Input/Output System
• Bistable Display = A stable display when power is off.
• bit = Binary Digit
• BITNET = Because Its Time Network
• BLOB = Binary Large Object
• Bluetooth = A short-range wireless technology
• BNC = Bayonet Neill Concelman
• BOOTP = BOOTstrap Protocol
• Botnet = A network of remote-controlled zombie computers.
• BPEL = Business Process Execution Language
• BPL = Bits Per Line
• BPP = Bits Per Pixel
• BPS = Bits Per Second
• BRI = Basic-Rate Interface
• BSC = Base Station Controller
• BSD = Berkeley Software (System) Distribution (Design)
• BSML = Biosequence Markup Language
• BSWD = BellSouth Intelligent Wireless Data Network
• BTW = By The Way