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Here’s a handy guide to some tech words that The Associated Press has ruled on:
- cellphone: It’s one word now.
- smartphone: See above.
- mobile phone: Still two words
- handheld, hand-held: As a noun, it’s one word. As an adjective, it’s hyphenated.
- WiFi: Use a capital w and a capital f.
- WiMax: Same style as WiFi.
- email: It’s no longer hyphenated.
- e-reader, e-book, etc.: Other e words are still hyphenated, however.
- videoconference: It’s one word, no hypen.
- videotape: One word.
- video game: Two words. I’m not sure why this one hasn’t evolved.
- wiki: Lowercase it.
- laptop: One word.
- app: Just like so, and it’s OK to use it on first reference.
- Bluetooth: The b is capitalized, but the t is not.
- Facebook: I still see writers capitalizing the b – don’t do it.
- Google, Googling, Googled: All these forms are capitalized.
- retweet: One word, all lowercase.
- tweet: Lowercase.
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