You might be familiar with the Android codenames, such as Gingerbread and Marshmallow! However, even before it happened, Microsoft is accustomed to the habit of giving code-names for its projects, which it continues. Though the list goes back to some …
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#22 Daily dose : The History of first android phone
Android Operating System which was launched by Google way back in 2008 is the most popular operating system for mobiles at the moment. The reason for its tremendous success is that it is an open source operating system. Android was …
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#21 Daily dose : What Was the First E-mail Message?
Since the 1990s, electronic mail has eclipsed snail mail and the fax to become the standard in the business world, and although social media sites are edging in on personal online messaging, e-mail still holds strong in that arena. You …
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#19 Daily dose : The history of silicon valley
The term “Silicon Valley” usually refers to the Santa Clara Valley in California.Silicon Valley became famous as the birthplace of the silicon-based transistor in the 1950s. A man named Don Hoefler later entered the nickname into the public consciousness through …
#18 Daily dose : US’s top secret nuclear launch code was frighteningly simple
For nearly 20 years, the secret code to authorize launching U.S. nuclear missiles, and starting World War III, was terrifyingly simple and even noted down on a checklist. From 1962, when John F Kennedy instituted PAL encoding on nuclear weapons, …
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#17 Daily dose : The IBM SAGE – The heavyweight of all the computers
When the Soviet Union detonated their first atomic bomb on August 29, 1949, the United States government concluded that it needed a real-time, state-of-the-art air defense system. It turned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which in turn recruited companies …
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#16 Daily dose : The Untold story about Bill gates and steve jobs
Founded in 1976 and 1975 respectively, Apple and Microsoft are the world’s two most valuable brands, according to Forbes. The rivalry between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates has been well documented through the years, with Jobs famously condemning Microsoft for …
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#15 Daily dose : The birth of the iPhone
Apple’s iPhone wasn’t the first iPhone. Before Apple ever released the iPhone, Cisco Systems had originally patented the name. In fact, they sued Apple for calling its smartphone an iPhone. The Cisco iPhone was a VOIP phone that allowed users …
#14 Daily dose : The “!” in Yahoo!
Yahoo was first started by Jerry Yang and David Filo in February, 1994. It did not start as a search engine. In fact, they started it to keep track of their own interests online. Later it turned into a simple …
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