Apple Inc. !!!
APPLE INC. is an American
multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics,
computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware
products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the
iPad.
1. Apple was established on April 1,
1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne. All the three founders
used to work at Atari before forming Apple.
2. Apple-1 with the tagline 'Byte into an Apple' was the
first personal computer to be released by Apple which was designed and hand
built by Wozniak. It was sold for $666.66.
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| Apple-1 |
3. When iTunes store was first launched, it had sold approximately 275,000 tracks within its first 18 hours. It sold 70 million songs in its first year.
4. Apple also made the first
consumer digital cameras. The Apple Quicktake was launched in 1994 and was
discontinued later in 1997. The camera was capable of storing eight photos at
640x480 resolution, 32 photos at 320x240 resolution, or a mixture of both
sizes.
5. The very
first Apple logo was designed by Ronald Wayne.The first logo shows Isaac Newton
sitting under an apple tree when he discovered gravity by an apple falling on
his head; it has a poem all around its border.
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| 1st Apple logo |
6. Before coming up with the name iPod, Steve had already decided its tagline as “1,000 songs in your pocket.” Giving copywriter Vinnie Chieco complete freedom to come up with a name.
7. Apple's first GUI computer was called Apple Lisa which is rumored to be named after Steve Job's first daughter Lisa Nicole Brennan Jobs. Apple denies these rumors by saying that Lisa stands for Locally Integrated Software Architecture.
8.
Apple's Logo was redesigned in 1977 by Ron Janoff, the only instruction
Ron got from Steve Jobs about the logo was, “Don't make it cute”.
9. Rob then presented two logos to Steve, one with a bite and the other without. Steve went for the one with the bite.
9. Rob then presented two logos to Steve, one with a bite and the other without. Steve went for the one with the bite.
10. According to an urban legend the reason for picking the logo with a bite in the apple was to pay homage to genius computer scientist Alan Turing who committed suicide by taking a bite from a poisoned apple. The designer and the company however denies any such theory.
11. Jobs also created a company called Pixar which was later bought by Disney, making him the largest individual shareholder of Disney.
12. The Apple store on 5th Avenue in Manhattan (the
cube) is said to be one of the most photographed landmarks in the world.
13. Apple didn’t sell a Windows-compatible iPod
until nine months after the iPod was introduced.
14. Steve Jobs was awarded the National Medal of
Technology from Ronald Reagan.
15. Jonathan Ive, Apple's senior VP of Industrial
Design has worn the same shirt in every Apple product introduction video since
2000.
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Facebook !!!
Facebook
was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and
fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin
Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
Google is looking over its shoulder
as Facebook grows at over 10 million users a month and sits currently at number
two on web traffic rankings according to Alexa.com. Last year Facebook
surpassed Google for the top ranking for total time spent online. Facebook has
also become the 3rd largest video website with 46.6 million viewers sitting
behind number one ranked video content property provider Google with its
YouTube site and Yahoo at second ranking.
So let us look about Some amazing
facts about Facebook :
1. Named after a Harvard student directory that included student photos and profiles, Facebook was originally called “thefacebook” and was limited to only Harvard students. In 2005, the site was renamed “Facebook.”
2. Facebook was almost shut down by a lawsuit by ConnectU who claimed that Zuckerburg stole the idea and Technology for Facebook (the issue was settled out of court)
3. People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
4. Both citizens and police departments are increasingly using Facebook to catch suspected criminals.
1. Named after a Harvard student directory that included student photos and profiles, Facebook was originally called “thefacebook” and was limited to only Harvard students. In 2005, the site was renamed “Facebook.”
2. Facebook was almost shut down by a lawsuit by ConnectU who claimed that Zuckerburg stole the idea and Technology for Facebook (the issue was settled out of court)
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| MARK Zuckerburg |
3. People spend over 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook
4. Both citizens and police departments are increasingly using Facebook to catch suspected criminals.
5. Facebook has more than One
billion active users
6. About 600 million People are using the Facebook in Mobile Devices
7.United States is the Country Having most Facebook Users in the world around 166 million Members
8. Facebook has 3,976 Employees as of June 30, and still trying to Hire more and more
9.The "Social Network " Movie based on the Facebook had won Four Golden Globes.
10.The Median Age of the Facebook is Age 26 in 2008, 19 in 2006.Now it was exactly 22.
11. One of the Co-Founder of Facebook Chris Hughes Served as an Online Organiszng Director for Barac Obama Presidential Campaign.
6. About 600 million People are using the Facebook in Mobile Devices
7.United States is the Country Having most Facebook Users in the world around 166 million Members
8. Facebook has 3,976 Employees as of June 30, and still trying to Hire more and more
9.The "Social Network " Movie based on the Facebook had won Four Golden Globes.
10.The Median Age of the Facebook is Age 26 in 2008, 19 in 2006.Now it was exactly 22.
11. One of the Co-Founder of Facebook Chris Hughes Served as an Online Organiszng Director for Barac Obama Presidential Campaign.
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| Co-Founder of Facebook Chris Hughes |
12. An Average Woman Update their
Status 21 times per month, where Men is Just Six times.
13. About 250 Million Photos are Uploaded to the Facebook site daily.
14. About 95% of US online consumers have Facebook accounts, where their Twitter is Just 62%.
15. Syria, China, Vietnam, and Iran have banned Facebook.
16.. The first person to invest in Facebook was the cofounder of PayPal, Peter Thiel, who invested $500,000 in June 2004
17. There are more than 800,000 developers building applications for Facebook.
18. Al Pacino’s face was on the original Facebook homepage
19. One early Facebook function was a file sharing service
20. Facebook is now valued at approximately $80 billion
21.It is the second biggest website by traffic behind Google.
13. About 250 Million Photos are Uploaded to the Facebook site daily.
14. About 95% of US online consumers have Facebook accounts, where their Twitter is Just 62%.
15. Syria, China, Vietnam, and Iran have banned Facebook.
16.. The first person to invest in Facebook was the cofounder of PayPal, Peter Thiel, who invested $500,000 in June 2004
17. There are more than 800,000 developers building applications for Facebook.
18. Al Pacino’s face was on the original Facebook homepage
19. One early Facebook function was a file sharing service
20. Facebook is now valued at approximately $80 billion
21.It is the second biggest website by traffic behind Google.
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| Facebook main page |
22. There is over 16,000,000 Facebook fan pages.
23. Texas Hold’em Poker is the most popular
Facebook page with over 41 million fans
24. Iceland used Facebook to rewrite its
constitution!
25. Adding the number 4 to the end of Facebook’s
URL will automatically direct you to Mark Zuckerberg’s wall.
26. Facebook pays $500 to anyone who can hack into
it!.
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Google !!!!
Google is
everyone's favorite search engine. We use it everyday to search many things and
even to check our Internet Speed !! Every great company has a story behind its
legend.
Here are some interesting facts about Google, which you would love to
know :
1. Google started in January, 1996 as a research project at Stanford University, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively.
2. The name Google was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for Googol.
1. Google started in January, 1996 as a research project at Stanford University, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were 24 years old and 23 years old respectively.
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| Larry Page and Sergey Brin |
2. The name Google was an accident. A spelling mistake made by the original founders who thought they were going for Googol.
3. Google consists of over 450,000 servers, racked up in
clusters located in data centers around the world.
4. The infamous “I’m feeling lucky” button is nearly never used. However, in trials it was found that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience. Users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button.
5. 57% of American kids say ‘Google’ as their first word.
6. 620 million visitors visit Google.com daily.
7. Google has a world-class staff of more than 2,668 employees known as Googlers. The company headquarters is called the Googleplex.
8. Google’s index of web pages is the largest in the world, comprising of billions of web pages. Google searches this immense collection of web pages often in less than half a second.
9. When Google introduced their improved spell checker seen as “Did you mean ? ”, it doubled their traffic and soon the developers discovered that the ideal placement was at the bottom of the search results.
10. There isn’t any restriction for proper dress code in the Google office. This may include pajamas and even super hero costumes.
4. The infamous “I’m feeling lucky” button is nearly never used. However, in trials it was found that removing it would somehow reduce the Google experience. Users wanted it kept. It was a comfort button.
5. 57% of American kids say ‘Google’ as their first word.
6. 620 million visitors visit Google.com daily.
7. Google has a world-class staff of more than 2,668 employees known as Googlers. The company headquarters is called the Googleplex.
8. Google’s index of web pages is the largest in the world, comprising of billions of web pages. Google searches this immense collection of web pages often in less than half a second.
9. When Google introduced their improved spell checker seen as “Did you mean ? ”, it doubled their traffic and soon the developers discovered that the ideal placement was at the bottom of the search results.
10. There isn’t any restriction for proper dress code in the Google office. This may include pajamas and even super hero costumes.
11. In August 2004, Google went
public with opening shares at $85 per share. Google stated that during its IPO,
it hoped to raise as much as $2,718,281,828, which is the first 10 digits of
the mathematical constant “e.” It raised $1.67 billion.
12. According to Alexa (“The Web Information Company”), Google is the Internet’s most visited website globally.
13. The late Steve Jobs said he would be willing to “go thermonuclear war” against Google, a company he thought was guilty of “grand theft” when it launched its Android operating system.
14. Google’s tradition of April Fool’s jokes began in April 2000 when Google announced the “MentalPlex,” or Google’s ability to read a person’s mind as he visualizes the search results he wants.
12. According to Alexa (“The Web Information Company”), Google is the Internet’s most visited website globally.
13. The late Steve Jobs said he would be willing to “go thermonuclear war” against Google, a company he thought was guilty of “grand theft” when it launched its Android operating system.
14. Google’s tradition of April Fool’s jokes began in April 2000 when Google announced the “MentalPlex,” or Google’s ability to read a person’s mind as he visualizes the search results he wants.
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| MentalPlex |
15. If you use Google Calendar, Google may also know your schedule, what books you’ve read on Google Books, and what videos you watch on YouTube. They also save all your search queries, your IP address, your browser and its set language, the date and time of every request, your SMS messages, the cookies used for advertising services, and third-party application data. According to one critic, “Google knows more about you than your mother."
16. Reluctant to leave school to devote time to their new search engine, Page and Brin attempted to sell google.com for $1 million to AltaVista. Fortunately for them, Alta Vista passed . . . as did Yahoo!, Excite, and other search engines.
17. Google’s first-ever Twitter post was in
February 2004. It was binary for “I’m feeling lucky.
18. A Google employee is named a “Googler” while a
new team member is called a “Noogler.
19. Google makes 99% of its profit from its
advertising.
20. Some Web researchers note that Google helps
prop up Wikipedia as an information source since more than 50% of the traffic
to Wikipedia is generated from Google searches.
21. When Google went public, many employees became
instant millionaires. Yahoo!, which owned 8.4 million shares of Google stock
before Google’s IPO, also benefited.
22. Stanford, which holds the patent to the
PageRank algorithm Larry Page created, gained profit of $336 million,the most
money any university has ever received from a single invention.
23. Google owns YouTube, DoubleClick, On2
Technologies, Picnik, Aardvark, AdMob, Zagat, and Motorola Mobility.
24. There are Google bikes parked throughout the
Googleplex that employees can hop on and ride from building to building. None
of them is locked; employees simply take them when they need them.
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Sun Microsystems Inc. !!!!
The company, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
was formed in February 24, 1982 with its headquarters in Santa Clara,
California by BILL JOY, ANDY BECHTOLSHEIM,
SCTT McNEALY, and VINOD KHOSLA.
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| Headquarters in Santa Clara, California |
Leader maker of UNIX servers
Before the acquisition, Sun
Microsystems was a leading maker of UNIX servers which were used to power up
websites and computer networks. The company also manufactured various computer
hardware including storage systems (both disks and tapes) and workstations. Sun
computer products made use of Sun-manufactured SPARC microprocessors and the
Solaris operating system
The
company logo
The logo for Sun Microsystems was
designed by Vaughan Pratt, a professor in Stanford. It features four
interleaved replicas of the word “sun”. The original colour of the logo was
orange, but was somehow changed to purple after the logo design was made to
stand on one corner.
Java Platform
The Java Platform is a collection of
computer software programs and specifications written specifically in the Java
programming language. The Java language is a major computer language used to
write most of today’s applications for computers, mobile phones, Web browsers,
and other related electronic devices. Java application programs require the
installation of the Java Platform before they can be used. The platform can be
downloaded from the Oracle website (Oracle.com).
Solaris
Solaris is an operating system for
Unix designed to be used for Computer Aided Design (CAD), data centres,
databases, and servers. After the acquisition, Oracle discontinued its
distribution.
Network File
System (NFS)
NFS is a computer protocol developed
in 1984 to allow file sharing between computer users over a network. This system
allows multiple users to store files in one machine for future access or
retrieval using the server-client specification.
Acquisitions
Sun also acquired different open
source software programs including MySQL and OpenOffice. MySQL is a database
management program used particularly for databases in Web application.
OpenOffice is a collection of applications similar to Microsoft Office,
providing software for word processing, databases, spreadsheets, graphics and
presentations.
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IBM !!
International Business Machine Corporation which is popularly known as IBM is one of the biggest name among all the Top Computer Manufacturing Companies. The company was founded in the year 1889 and is presently headquartered in New York. The company manufactures and sells computers and other related parts.
Starting
in the 1880s, various technologies came into existence that would form part of
IBM's predecessor company. Julius E. Pitrat patented the computing scale in
1885; Alexander Dey invented the dial recorder (1888); in 1889, Herman
Hollerith patented the Electric Tabulating Machine and Willard Bundy invented a
time clock to record a worker's arrival and departure time on a paper tape.
On June
16, 1911, these technologies and their respective companies were merged by Charles
Ranlett Flint (January 24, 1850 – February 26, 1934) to form the
Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (C-T-R). The New York City-based company
had 1,300 employees and offices and plants in Endicott and Binghamton, New
York; Dayton, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Washington, D.C.; and Toronto, Ontario. It
manufactured and sold machinery ranging from commercial scales and industrial
time recorders to meat and cheese slicers, along with tabulators and punched
cards.
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| Charles Ranlett Flint |
Flint recruited Thomas J. Watson, Sr.,
formerly of the National Cash Register Company, to help lead the company in
1914. Watson implemented "generous sales incentives, a focus on customer
service, an insistence on well-groomed, dark-suited salesmen and an evangelical
fervor for instilling company pride and loyalty in every worker". His
favorite slogan, "THINK", became a mantra for C-T-R's employees, and
within 11 months of joining C-T-R, Watson became its president. The company
focused on providing large-scale, custom-built tabulating solutions for
businesses, leaving the market for small office products to others. During
Watson's first four years, revenues more than doubled to $9 million and the
company's operations expanded to Europe, South America, Asia, and Australia. On
February 14, 1924, C-T-R was renamed the International Business Machines
Corporation (IBM).
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| Thomas J. Watson |
Here are some of Interesting Facts::
ü IBM is
second-largest technology company in the world and will be celebrating its
100th birthday on June 2013.
ü It was originally
called the Tabulating Machine Company when it was founded by Herman Hollerith
in 1896. It was only when Thomas Watson took over the company that it came to
be known as IBM.
ü IBM computers
manned by IBM personnel helped NASA with the first human-landing on the moon.
ü The company’s
original logo was designed in 1924 when its name was changed to IBM. The
current day logo was created only in 1972 by a graphic designer named Paul Rand
and is meant to represent the innovation and expertise of the company.
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| Paul Rand |
ü The company’s
slogan “Think” was created in 1914 by Thomas. J Watson. The Apple campaign
which was called “Think different” was considered to have taken off from the
IBM one.
ü Famous
inventions by IBM include the following:
Ø Automated
teller machine (ATM)
Ø Floppy
disk
Ø Hard
disk drive
Ø Electronic
keypunch
Ø Magnetic
stripe card
Ø Virtual
machine
Ø Scanning
tunneling microscope
Ø Reduced
instruction set computing
Ø Relational
database
Ø Universal
Product Code (UPC)
Ø Financial
swap
Ø SABRE
airline reservation system
Ø Dynamic
Random Access Memory (DRAM)
Ø Watson
artificial intelligence
ü International
Business Machines Corporation is an
American multinational technology and consulting corporation, with headquarters
in Armonk, New York, United States. The 283,000-square-foot (26,300 m2) IBM building
has three levels of custom curtain wall. The building is located on a 25-acre
(10 ha) site. IBM has been headquartered in Armonk since 1964.
ü IBM
manufactures and markets computer hardware and software, and offers
infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe
computers to nanotechnology.
ü The
company was founded in 1911 as the Computing Tabulating Recording Company (CTR)
through a merger of three companies: the Tabulating Machine Company, the
International Time Recording Company, and the Computing Scale Company.
ü IBM's
current "8-bar" logo was designed in 1972 by graphic designer Paul
Rand.
ü Security
analysts nicknamed IBM Big Blue in recognition of IBM's common use of blue in
products, packaging, and logo.
ü IBM
has 12 research laboratories worldwide and, as of 2013, has held the record for
most patents generated by a company for 20 consecutive years.
ü Its
employees have garnered five Nobel Prizes, six Turing Awards, ten National
Medals of Technology, and five National Medals of Science.
ü Famous
inventions by IBM include the automated teller machine (ATM), the floppy disk,
the hard disk drive, the magnetic stripe card, the relational database, the
Universal Product Code (UPC), the financial swap, SABRE airline reservation
system, DRAM, and Watson artificial intelligence.
ü IBM
was among the first corporations to provide group life insurance (1934),
survivor benefits (1935) and paid vacations (1937).
ü IBM
was recognized as one of the "Top 20 Best Workplaces for Commuters"
by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2005.
ü In
2012, Fortune ranked IBM the #2 largest U.S. firm in terms of number of
employees (433,362).
ü IBM
also holds the SmartCamp program globally. The program searches for fresh
start-up companies that IBM can partner with to solve world problems. IBM holds
17 SmartCamp events around the world.
ü Since
July 2011, IBM has partnered with Pennies, the electronic charity box, and
produced a software solution for IBM retail customers that provides an easy way
to donate money when paying in-store by credit or debit card.
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| Pennies |
ü Extreme
Blue is a company initiative that uses experienced IBM engineers, talented
interns, and business managers to develop high-value technology. The project is
designed to analyze emerging business needs and the technologies that can solve
them.
ü On
April 7, 1964 IBM announced the first computer system family, the IBM
System/360.
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| IBM System/360 |
ü In
2006, IBM launched Secure Blue, encryption hardware that can be built into
microprocessors.
ü On
March 1, 2011, IBM announced the Smarter Computing framework to support Smarter
Planet.
ü In
2005, the company sold its personal computer business to Lenovo, and in the
same year, agreed to acquire Micromuse.
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Our mission: This decade, we will create and extend computing technology
to connect and enrich the lives of every person on earth.
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Intel Corporation !!!
Back in
1968, two scientists, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, founded Intel with
a
vision for semiconductor memory products. By 1971, they had introduced the
world’s first microprocessor. Since then, Intel has established a heritage of
innovation that continues to expand the reach and promise of computing while
advancing the ways people work and live worldwide.
Intel
Corporation is another important competitor which is the first company to
produce x86 series of microprocessor used in personal computers.
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