Quad Band =
"Before Going to Buy High-Tech Devices, Learn the New
Terms," by Walter S. Mossberg, The Wall Street
Journal, November 16, 2006; Page B1 --- http://online.wsj.com/article/personal_technology.html
Quad Band: A cellphone that handles all four bands, or
frequencies, used in various countries by wireless
phone companies adhering to a world-wide standard
called GSM. Examples are Cingular and T-Mobile in
the U.S.,
and Vodafone and Orange in Europe.
A quad-band phone can be used on any GSM network
anywhere, so if you travel overseas a lot, you may
want one.
QuickRing = (See Bus)
QuickTake = (See Dry camera)
QuickTime = Animation and video files that originally were designed for by Apple Corporation
for Mac computers. Next came
the software for playing quicktime video on PC computers.
In late 1996, Apple announced that it was letting
go of its proprietary rights so that Quicktime could
become an open-platform recording standard. Now
PC users can record and well as play back Quicktime
video. Various playback utilities, including the
always popular QuickTime playback software, can
be downloaded free from <http://www.apple.com>. Quicktime is clearly
the standard in the lead for WWW video. But Microsoft's
replacement of Video for Windows with its newer
Active Video software makes it a closer race for
dominance in video software. (See also Active video,
DVI,
Video
for Windows, Indeo, MPEG, Video, MCI, Ultimedia
Video, Internet
audio and video, and AVI)
QuickTime VR = (See Virtual
Reality)