VAR – Value Added Reseller
A VAR is someone who adds sometype of value like software to new or refurbished hardware products and sells to an end user, however they do not as a primary business buy and sell refurbished hardware.
A vertical industry is one that is focused on a relatively narrow range of goods and services, whereas a horizontal industry is one that aims to produce a wide range of goods and services.
Because most industry tends to specialize, most industry tends to be vertical.
Visual
BASIC (
VB) is a programming environment from Microsoft in which a programmer uses a Graphical User
Interface (
GUI) to choose and modify preselected sections of code written in the BASIC programming language. Since Visual Basic is easy to learn and fast to write code with, it's sometimes used to prototype an application that will later be written in a more difficult but efficient language.
Visual Basic is also widely used to write working programs. Microsoft says that there are at least 3 million developers using Visual Basic.
VMT – Vehicle Mounted Terminal
VMU – Vehicle Mounted Unit
A VMU or
VMT is simply a data collection computer that mounts to a forklift or other vehicle. It get its power from the vehicle itself. Because of this and because these units are usually bigger than hand held units, they sometimes have full size screens, keyboards and operating systems such as Windows or
Linux
VoIP, that is, voice delivered using the Internet
Protocol (
IP), is a term used in IP telephony for a set of facilities for managing the delivery of voice information using the

Internet Protocol. In general, this means sending voice information in digital form in discrete
Packets rather than in the traditional circuit-committed protocols of the public switched telephone network (PSTN). A major advantage of VoIPand Internet telephony is that it avoids the tolls charged by ordinary telephone service.
VoIP is possible with the
Wireless networks that Ryzex sells. Symbol has a viable VoIP system,
Intermec discontinued their VoIPproducts in 2003. VoIPphones work over existing
Access Points.
VPN – Virtual Private Network
A VPN is a way to use a public telecommunication infrastructure, such as the Internet, to provide remote offices or individual users with secure access to their organization's network. A virtual private network can be contrasted with an expensive system of owned or leased lines that can only be used by one organization. The goal of a VPN is to provide the organization with the same capabilities, but at a much lower cost.
VT is a family of terminals from
DEC that includes the DEC VT100, 220, and 320. VT is the most popular terminal emulation type found on data collection computers.