Every industry has jargon.
But the dialect of Internet B2B can sound particularly foreign to the untrained ear. Lose the tie, pop a pager onto your belt and head for the nearest coffee bar, confidently intoning these words into your ultraslim cell phone. Before you know it, it'll start raining stock options. ASP Application Service Provider. This summer's hot acronym, ASPs run and hosts software for other companies, which access the applications over the Web for a monthly usage fee.