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Martin Cooper _history of the cell phone
Dr Martin Cooper, a former general manager for the systems division at Motorola, is considered the inventor of the first portable handset and the first person to make a call on a portable cell phone in April 1973. The first call he made was to his rival, Joel Engel, Bell Labs head of research. AT&T's research arm, Bell Laboratories, introduced the idea of cellular communications in 1947. But Motorola and Bell Labs in the sixties and early seventies were in a race to incorporate the technology -
Idea of Cloud computing began
The idea of an "intergalactic computer network" was introduced in thesixties by J.C.R. Licklider, who was responsible for enabling the development of ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) in 1969. -
Microsoft Office Word
Microsoft Word is a word processor designed by Microsoft. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi -Tool Word for Xenix systems.[1][2][3] Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including IBM PCs running DOS (1983), the Apple Macintosh (1984), the AT&T Unix PC (1985), Atari ST (1986), SCO UNIX, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows (1989). Microsoft announced Multi -Tool Word for Xenix[4] and MS-DOS in 1983.[7] Its name was soon simplified to Microsoft Word. -
Microsoft Powerpoint
Microsoft PowerPoint has changed the way that professors teach and how workers share knowledge. The ease of producing visual presentations has saved untold millions of work-hours that would have otherwise been spent drawing on white boards with smelly markers. The first version of Powerpoint - first called Presenter, but later renamed because of copyright issues - was developed by Bob Gaskins and Dennis Austin, a University of California-Berkeley PhD student in 1984. -
Microsft Excel
The program didn't start off being called Excel. Instead, it was a simple spreadsheet program titled Multiplan, which was released in 1982. While it was wildly popular on CP/M systems, those who used MS-DOS weren't as happy with it as they were with Lotus 1-2-3. To try to remedy that, Microsoft released it as Excel in 1985 for Mac and in 1987 for Windows, which was the first time that it was marketed under the name Microsoft Excel in the mainstream computer software market. -
World Wide Web Created
he number of hosts increases from 80,000 in January to 130,000 in July to over 160,000 in November!
Australia, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom join the Internet. Commercial e-mail relays start between MCIMail through CNRI and Compuserve through Ohio State. The Internet Architecture Board reorganizes again reforming the IETF and the IRTF. Networks speed up. NSFNET T3 (45Mbps) nodes operate. At Interop 100Mbps LAN technology, known as F -
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook is Microsoft’s Personal Information Manager (PIM) application. It represents, in principle, the merger and evolution of Schedule+ and the Exchange Client. The former was Microsoft’s calendar and time management application and the latter was the first e-mail client for Microsoft Exchange Server. Schedule+ got its start with Windows 3.11 in 1992 and had a complementary Mac version as well. Office 95 shipped with an updated Schedule+. -
Microsoft Access
Need a quick and easy to use database solution? Access has been on the job since 1992.Microsoft Access is a full service database program that has been in development since 1992. While it is not as robust as other corporate database platforms, its usability makes it ideal for organizing small data sets, making it a great choice for personal and small business use. Another advantage is that it is quite inexpensive, making it competitive comparable to the heavy duty competition. -
Netscape
Andreessen teamed up with Silicon Graphics head Jim Clark, after graduating in 1993, to found Mosaic Communications Corporation. The company's first product, Mosaic Netscape 0.9, was based on the Mosaic code. The browser was later renamed Netscape Navigator for its 1.0 release in November 1994. -
Yahoo
Yahoo! was started in a Stanford University campus trailer.[1] It was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were Electrical Engineering graduate students when they created a website named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web". -
Internet explorer
Internet Explorer is Microsoft’s world wide web browser, and the name for a set of Internet-based technologies that provide browsing, email, collaboration and multimedia features to millions of people around the world. In 1995, Microsoft was busily working on a very important project, code-named “Chicago.” An extension of that project – code-named “O’Hare” after Chicago’s O’Hare Airport – was being developed in tandem. -
Ask.com
In 1996, "Ask Jeeves" was founded by David Warthen, who had founded EyeGames – a children’s video game company, and Garrett Gruener, a venture capitalist. At its start, the concept of the Ask.com search engine was to allow searchers to type questions in natural language in order to get results, rather than to type in a random string of keywords (although that would work as well). The Jeeves character, based on the butler in the Jeeves and Wooster books by P.G. Wodehouse, was designed as the comp -
Google
Google began in 1996 as a project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Larry and Sergey were both studying at Stanford University California. In their research project they came up with a plan to make a search engine that ranked websites according to the number of other websites that linked to that site (and ultimately came up with the Google we have today). Before Google, search engines had ranked sites simply by the number of times the search term searched for appeared on the webpage, and the duo se -
Opera Browser
Born as MultiTorg Opera, Norwegian company Telenor thankfully shortened the name of its young browser to just "Opera" in time for its public release (version 2.0) in 1996. Despite being the first major browser to offer up innovations like tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, and page zooming, Opera has failed to capture major market share, particularly in the U.S., where it often hovers below one percent. Things on the mobile side, however, are a different story. -
OS X Apple
ast month marked 10 years since the release of the first public beta of Apple’s Mac OS X. The trial version of the forthcoming operating system was released on September 13, 2000, carrying a box price of $29.99.
In March of 2010, the first final versi Apple releases OS X Server 1.0 — the first major fruit of the company’s OpenStep acquisition. The software is really just a preview of what Apple will offer in the coming years. Aesthetically, the OS is indebted to older versions’ Platinum layout. -
Clouds First Milestone
One of the first milestones for cloud computing was the arrival of Salesforce.com in 1999, which pioneered the concept of delivering enterprise applications via a simple website. The services firm paved the way for both specialist and mainstream software firms to deliver applications over the internet. -
Web 2.0
The term "Web 2.0" was first used in January 1999 by Darcy DiNucci, a consultant on electronic information design (information architecture). In her article, "Fragmented Future", DiNucci writes:[7]
The Web we know now, which loads into a browser window in essentially static screenfuls, is only an embryo of the Web to come. The first glimmerings of Web 2.0 are beginning to appear, and we are just starting to see how that embryo might develop. The Web will be understood not as screenfuls of text -
Windows Mobile
Windows Mobile is a family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones and Pocket PCs.[2] Windows Mobile is the predecessor of Windows Phone.
The last version of Windows Mobile, released after the announcement of Windows Phone, was 6.5.5.Windows Mobile was based on he Windows CE kernel and first appeared as the Pocket PC 2000 operating system. It was supplied with a suite of basic applications developed with the Microsoft Windows API, and is designed to have features and a -
Development of Amazon In Cloud
The next development was Amazon Web Services in 2002, which provided a suite of cloud-based services including storage, computation and even human intelligence through the Amazon Mechanical Turk. -
Firefox Browser
Long before this runaway train of adoration left the station, there was the release of Phoenix v0.1 in September 2002. The Phoenix browser, which would eventually become known as Firefox in later releases, started out looking like a stripped down version of the browser we know today. -
Safari-Apple
In 2003, the company re-entered the space with a WebKit-based browser called Safari. Later that year, it became the default OS X browser with the release of OS X 10.2 Panther. A Windows version of the browser followed in 2007, which Steve Jobs touted as the fastest browser available for the Microsoft operating system. -
Creation of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg, 23, founded Facebook while studying psychology at Harvard University. A keen computer programmer, Mr Zuckerberg had already developed a number of social-networking websites for fellow students, including Coursematch, which allowed users to view people taking their degree, and Facemash, where you could rate people's attractiveness. In February 2004 Mr Zuckerberg launched "The facebook", as it was originally known; the name taken from the sheets of paper distributed to freshmen -
Twitter history
Twitter began as an idea that Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey (@Jack) had in 2006. Dorsey had originally imagined Twitter as an SMS-based communications platform. Groups of friends could keep tabs on what each other were doing based on their status updates. Like texting, but not.
THE FIRST TWEET
Jack sent the first message on Twitter on March 21, 2006 9:50pm. It read, "just setting up my twttr". During the development of Twitter, team members would often rack up hundreds of dollars in SMS cha -
Amazon Launched Cloud
Then in 2006, Amazon launched its Elastic Compute cloud (EC2) as a commercial web service that allows small companies and individuals to rent computers on which to run their own computer applications. -
Microsoft Publisher
Publisher is included in higher-end editions of Microsoft Office, reflecting Microsoft's emphasis on the application as an easy-to-use and less expensive alternative to the "heavyweights," with a focus on the small business market where firms do not have dedicated design professionals available to make marketing materials and other documents.[1][2] However, it has a relatively small share of the desktop publishing market, which is dominated by Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress.[1] Publisher has his -
IOS
On June 29, 2007, Apple released the first version of what became iOS – concurrently with the first iPhone. The final 1.x series release was 1.1.5, released shortly before version 2.0. Apple's iOS did not have an official name until the release of the iPhone software development kit (iPhone SDK) on March 6, 2008. Before then, Apple marketing literature simply stated that their iPhone runs a version of "OS X", a reference to iOS' parent operating system.[3] When introduced, it was named iPhone OS -
Apple app store
It didn’t take long for apps to start getting headlines, be it the developers themselves or some questionable applications. This kicked off with the “I am rich” application, launched in August 2008. By paying $1,000, you could get an icon on your phone pointing out you were rich. One person downloaded the app, and it was pulled the very next day. In March 2009, the app developers came under the spotlight when many complained via developer web forums that they had not been paid for their work. -
Google Chrome Store
Google Chrome is a freeware web browser[8] developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine until version 27 and, with the exception of its iOS releases, from version 28 and beyond the WebKit fork Blink.[9][10][11] It was released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and as a stable public release on December 11, 2008. As of April 2013, according to StatCounter, Google Chrome has a 39% worldwide usage share of web browsers making it the most widely used web browser -
Android
Almost three years after the birth of the T-Mobile G1, the world's first Android smartphone, we pause to take a look back at what the little green dude has given us. Sure, we've known that the OS has been very busy in the United States and around the world, but we really had no idea just how busy it was. And if we expanded the list beyond handsets not with U.S. carriers, it would be even longer. The first ever android was made in 2008 of october -
Bing
From Live Search to Bing, the renamed search engine officially went live in May of 2009. The search engine has hopes of competing with other search engine giants. Before Bing, it was Live Search, Windows Live Search and MSN search. The MSN search engine came about in1999, and used other engines to help produce results. Soon this gave way to Windows Live Search that generated its own search results. It became Windows Live Search in 2006 and soon became just Live Search in 2007. -
Another Big Milestone for Clould Computing
Another big milestone came in 2009, as Web 2.0 hit its stride, and Google and others started to offer browser-based enterprise applications, though services such as Google Apps. -
Windows 7
Windows 7 was built for the wireless world that arose in the late 2000s. By the time it was released, laptops were outselling desktops, and it had become common to connect to public wireless hotspots in coffee shops and private networks in the home. Windows 7 included new ways to work with windows—like Snap, Peek, and Shake—which both improved functionality and made the interface more fun to use. It also marked the debut of Windows Touch, which let touchscreen users browse the web, flip through -
Security Concerns for cloud
But he added that IT directors still have concerns about the security of their corporate data in the cloud. This means that it will be 2010 at the earliest before cloud adoption sees increased growth. -
youtube creation
The domain name "YouTube.com" was activated on February 14, 2005, and the website was developed over the subsequent months. The creators offered the public a preview of the site in May 2005, six months before YouTube made its official debut. Like many technology startups, YouTube was started as an angel-funded enterprise from a makeshift office in a garage. In November 2005, venture firm Sequoia Capital invested an initial $3.5 million;[5] additionally, Roelof Botha, partner of the firm and form -
Google Play
A few days ago, Droid Life posted what appears to be the first preview of version 4.0.16 of the Google Play Store, the newest version of the marketplace application present on most Android devices. Chiefly the update brings a redesigned user interface that emphasizes the different types of products and services Google offers through the Play Store. The design language of the new UI seems to reflect what Google uses across its other services currently and seeks to establish a look more consiste -
Microsoft Onenote
In OneNote, users can enter typed text via keyboard, create tables, and insert pictures. However, unlike a word processor, users can write anywhere on a virtually unbounded document window by just clicking there. Also, users do not need to explicitly save—OneNote saves data automatically as the user works.OneNote saves information in a proprietary file format with the extension .one. Microsoft upgraded the file format twice after it introduced OneNote 2003—first in OneNote 2007, then in OneNote
