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CNET GLOSSARY: Terms for the techie
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BSS 
Basic Service Set 
When a WLAN is operating in infrastructure mode, each access point and its connected devices are called the Basic Service Set.


 
B 
backbone
backdoor program
back office
backup camera
bandwidth
BASIC
BBS
beacon
beacon interval
Before color temp
Before grayscale variation
beta software
bezel
Bezier curve
big iron
bilinear texture filtering
binary
binary mode
biometrics
BIOS
 
bit
bitmap
bit rate
black level
blog
Blue Book
blue laser
Bluetooth
Bluetooth interface
Blu-ray
BMI
BMP
BNC
bookmarklet
Boolean operator
bootable CD
boot disk
bot
bounding box
BPSK
 
BREW
broadband
broadband wireless
broadcast flag
browser
browser sniffing
BSS
BSSID
buffer
buffering
buffer overflow
buffer underrun
bug
BURN-Proof
bus
B2B
byte
  
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