Ted Kennedy

What U.S. Democratic senator had the first internet home page?

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PASCAL

What was the name of the computer language named after a French philosopher and mathematician?

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Intel Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation sued what computer chip manufacturer claiming it stole the technology to develop the Pentium Pro?

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Kevin Mitnick

After breaking into physicist Tsutomu Shimomura's computer on Christmas in 1994, what legendary hacker was taken down?

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Silicon

What common element is used in the manufacture of computer chips?

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Linux

Red Hat and Yellow Dog are computer outfits that distributed an alternative computer operating system. What was the name of the system?

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IBM corporation

Which computer company dropped the Play Station line and created an Aptiva brand computer for home users?

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Computer

What did Charles Babbage invent when he designed his analytical engine in 1833?

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Multi User Computer Game

In computer lingo what is a MUD?

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Hardware

The generic term for the mechanical, electrical and electronic components of a computer are called what?

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iWatch release date

iWacth release date?

iWatch is the latest new product changing the shape of the handset market and revolutionizing watch functionality, acting as a companion to the iPad & iPhone. 

The Apple iWatch smartwatch is the subject of much recent speculation going into 2013.

Low power Bluetooth 4.0 will be installed in the watch so it can instantly pair with an iPhone or iPad, as well as a 1.5-inch display"

Now this is a real concept and a pretty exciting idea! The watch make calls, change the face of your watch screen, play music to blue-tooth wireless in ear headphones, will also be able to instantly tell you what time it is in any part of the world. 

Other features include retina display, 'siri', a stopwatch, an alarm, and a powerful torch!

Cyclists will be able to use the iWatch as a bike computer, accessing the GPS on the smartphone to display speed, distance and pace data.

The iWatch will not a replacement, or a low grade substitute for the smartphone, but will be another interface for our other devices to connect with and another way for Apple to make it near-impossible for us to live without owning their products.

You can expect to see the iWatch in the shops by early 2013 which is an exciting prospect! For further release and spec updates JOIN this page now by clicking the link to the left of the page

Windows 8 tablets

There are still a lot of unanswered questions when it comes to Windows 8 tablets, but the information is starting to come out, and there's no doubt Microsoft is prepared to make a real go of this tablet malarkey.

Windows 8 will use a Metro interface that's much like Windows Phone 7 for when it's used on touch devices, with separate Metro apps. It will support ARM processors, such as Tegra 3, as well, which means manufacturers have options for the hardware they include.

Whether the addition of a new touch interface on top of the traditional Windows look will entice developers and customers is hard to say, but it seems to have the manufacturers on board, and we'll be able to see more when the public beta arrives early next year. If Microsoft pulls it off, it may suddenly become a big mobile player again.

Source: http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/tablets/10-gadgets-to-look-forward-to-in-2012-1046703

World Wide Web - Cold War

Now days, everybody relies on the internet for business, personal use however, as the technology evolved things got more complicated interms of privacy, copyright materials and the new law currently emerging. But what do you know about SOPA bill (Stop Online Piracy Act)?. Therefore, if you live in the US then we would reccomend to watch below video at least once or just to bear in mind what is happening around the world.

Source: Idlegeek

Facebook looking to buying whatsApp: Rumors

Unofficial sources has confirmed facebook looking to buy WhatsApp. However, this is a gentle move for Facebook because WhatsApp is available on a number of different platforms and has a staggering 100 million daily active users globally, serving few billion messages every day. The mobile app is currently the number-two paid app in the US Apple App Store, where it sells for $0.99. On Google Play, it’s free for the first year, and then $0.99 per year thereafter.

Why Facebook wants for this deal?

Facebook previously bought Instagram for $1Billion not very long, although that number is mostly reflected in now reduced stock options. It’s not clear why Facebook would buy WhatsApp but there are a few possibilities, including augmenting or even gutting the unreliable Facebook Chat and there is of course the legion of WhatsApps users. Please leave your comments below if you have different view.

Stay tuned for more update.

Source: TechCrunch

Changes in physical size over time

The first hard disk drive, like so many innovations in computing, came from IBM. It was called the IBM Model 350 Disk File and was a huge device. It had 50 24-inch diskscontained inside a cabinet that was as large as a cupboard and anything but lightweight. This hulk of a storage unit could store a whopping 5 MB of data.

Above: An IBM Model 350 Disk File being delivered. Yes, that’s ONE hard disk drive unit.

Although hard disk drives kept improving, state-of-the art disks were built according to the concept “bigger is better” well into the ‘80s. Hard disk drives were normally used together with big mainframe computers, so this was not such a big deal. Entire rooms were already set aside for the computers.

Above: State-of-the-art hard disk drive from the ‘70s.

IBM introduced the first hard disk drive to break the 1 GB barrier in 1980. It was called the IBM 3380 and could store 2.52 GB (500 times more than the consumer options at the time). Its cabinet was about the size of a refrigerator and the whole thing weighed in at550 pounds (250 kg).

Above: The disk drive module of the IBM 3380.

Early in the ‘80s, smaller “consumer” hard disk drives designed to be used with the increasingly popular microcomputers (now known as PCs) started to appear. The first ones were 5 MB in size and had a form factor of 5.25 inches.

For a visual on how hard disk drive sizes have changed since the ‘80s until today, have a look at the below image with an old 8-inch drive all the way down to today’s 3.5-inch, 2.5-inch and 1.8-inch drives.

Above: Three decades of shrinkage.

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Amazing facts and figures about the evolution of hard disk drives

It took 51 years before hard disk drives reached the size of 1 TB (terabyte, i.e. 1,000 GB). This happened in 2007. In 2009, the first hard drive with 2 TB of storage arrived. So while it took 51 years to reach the first terabyte, it took just two years to reach the second.

This article looks back at how hard disk drives have evolved since they first burst onto the scene in 1956. We’ll examine the radical changes over time for three different aspects of HDDs: Size, storage space, and price.

Source: http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/02/18/amazing-facts-and-figures-about-the-evolution-of-hard-disk-drives/

Computer Tech Terms, Facts, and Trivia

The word digital is widely used, but many folks don't know what it actually means; digital describes any system that's based on discontinuous data or events (discontinuous means not continuous or having breaks).

The opposite of digital is analog (analog processes information more or less in a continuous stream).

The word Internet has spawned several new words. Did you know that a netizen is a citizen of the Internet? You do now. A netiquette is etiquette for the Internet.

Query-This is the word or string of words you type into a search engine. When you tell the search engine what you want to know you are querying the Web.

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